ISEQ inches higher, led by Elan
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The Dublin market managed modest gains in early trading as investors snapped up Elan shares after it said it had settled a USD75m suit.
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Private equity companies in Europe raised a record 112 billion euros (150 billion dollars) in 2006, an increase of 56.4 percent compared with 2005, industry association EVCA said Tuesday.
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Biogen Idec in Cambridge is rumored to be in talks to buy or merge with Elan Corp. in Ireland, though the later company denies any such conversation is taking place, Bloomberg News is reporting.
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SHARES in Unitab pushed higher yesterday despite a warning that the waging and gaming company&#39;s growth was likely to slow this year.
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Competitors do better and investors are keeping their feet on the ground.
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Singapore&#39;s industrial output increased 11.8 percent on-year in September, driven by the higher production of electronics. The industrial production index, a measure of manufacturing output, climbed after
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DRESDEN, Germany, June 26  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) -- Sun Microsystems, Inc.  is demonstrating innovative High Performance Computing (HPC) solutions this week at the International Supercomputing Conference in Dresden, Germany.
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A quarter goes a long way toward pushing up shares.
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For the quarter, EMC, the worldâs No. 1 maker of corporate data storage equipment, beat analystsâ estimates.
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DUBLIN, Ireland  - U.S. drug company Biogen Idec  is considering an all-share bid of more than 8.5 billion euros  ($10.6 billion) for Irish peer Elan, a newspaper reported on  Sunday.
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News of a co-ordinated effort by a wide-ranging consortium of the world's central banks to address the liquidity crisis on credit markets pushed London equities significantly higher on Wednesday.
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European equity markets pushed higher on Monday, following the lead of Wall Street futures, as defensive drugs and oil groups supported the main indices.
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London equities were higher on Thursday, joining a global rally inspired by the US Federal Reserve&#39;s pledge to protect the economy from turbulence on world credit markets.
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The chipmaker will post twice the growth of the market average, which will hit $270 billion this year, analysts say.
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tocks ended higher yesterday after Ford Motor raised its earnings forecasts but gains on the Nasdaq were checked after the wireless technology provider Qualcomm said an accounting review might reduce pretax income.
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World economic growth will be higher than predicted, the IMF says at the start of Singapore meetings.