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The Home Depot Declares Third Quarter Dividend of 22.5 Cents [Press Release]
PRNewswire | 4 days 3 hours 47 minutes ago
...Depot's stock is traded on the New York Stock Exchange and is included in the Dow Jones industrial average and Standard & Poor's 500 index. CONTACT: Financial Community, Diane Dayhoff, Vice President of InvestorRelations, +1-770...

First Mutual Fund Investment in Microfinance in India [Press Release]
PRNewswire | 3 days 9 hours 1 minute ago
CHENNAI, India, November 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- A recent micro-loan securitisation, completed by IFMR Capital and Equitas Micro Finance, has enabled the first ever mutual fund investment into the Indian microfinance sector. The Rs. 480 million ($10.4 million) transaction is backed by over 55,000 micro-loans originated by Equitas Micro Finance, a Chennai-based microfinance institution with approximately 700,000 low-income clients. The transaction was structured by IFMR Capital, which...

S&P and Veros Announce Strategic Alliance to Improve RMBS Transparency and Disclosure [Press Release]
PRNewswire | 26 days 12 hours 20 minutes ago
...Oct. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Standard & Poor's Fixed Income Risk Management...Goldstein, Managing Director at Standard & Poor's FIRMS. "This alliance is...property information along with Standard & Poor's Global Data Solutions --U...

The Deal LLC Announces Winners of the Second Annual Most Admired Corporate Dealmakers Awards [Press Release]
Business Wire | 4 days 10 hours 10 minutes ago
The Deal LLC, (www.TheDeal.com), the media and information company for the deal economy, today announces the winners of the inaugural Most Admired Corporate Dealmakers Awards. Winners were selected in three industry sectors in a survey of The Deal’s readers, conducted by Applied Research-West, based upon their excellence in conceiving and executing transactions worldwide.

AutoNation Seattle and BECU to Give Away a 2010 Ford Fusion Hybrid [Press Release]
PRNewswire | 4 days 8 hours 1 minute ago
...headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., is America's largest automotive retailer. A component of the Standard and Poor's 500 Index, AutoNation owns and operates 245 new vehicle franchises in 15 states. For additional information...

Health Insurance 2.0 - Cashing in on Social Media [Press Release]
PRNewswire | 4 days 17 hours 14 minutes ago
INDIANAPOLIS, Nov. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- With the increasing popularity of social networking tools like Facebook and Twitter, expectations on both sides of the business/consumer relationship have changed.

Home Prices Continue to Improve According to the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices [Press Release]
PRNewswire | 27 days 11 hours 53 minutes ago
...August 2009, released today by Standard & Poor's for its S&P/Case-Shiller...Chairman of the Index Committee at Standard & Poor's. "The two Composites and...1.6% -11.3% Source: Standard & Poor's and Fiserv Data through August...

Equifax Names Bhatia CEO of India-Based Credit Information Company [Press Release]
PRNewswire | 4 days 7 hours 50 minutes ago
...the U.S. and 14 other countries throughout North America, Latin America and Europe. Equifax is a member of Standard & Poor's (S&P) 500(R) Index. Our common stock is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol EFX. ...

Holiday Films Pose Unique Risk Challenges with Major Stunts and Action Sequences [Press Release]
Business Wire | 3 days 17 hours 23 minutes ago
The holiday movie season includes films about vampires and werewolves (“Twilight: New Moon”), war lords during the Chinese Dynasty (“Red Cliff”), the King of Pop (“This Is It”), Scrooge (“A Christmas Carol”), a famous fictional detective (“Sherlock Holmes”) and the end of the Mayan calendar (“2012”).

The Options Clearing Corporation Announces November Test Results Show Increasing OSI Readiness [Press Release]
MarketWire | 4 days 6 hours 46 minutes ago
CHICAGO, IL -- (Marketwire) -- 11/19/09 -- The Options Clearing Corporation (OCC) announced today that the second round of testing for the Options Symbology Initiative (OSI) concluded successfully and the industry is on track with preparations for next year's changes.

Kraft Foods Eliminated More Than 50 Million Truck Miles Since 2005 Through Focus on Transportation Sustainability Efforts [Press Release]
PRNewswire | 4 days 12 hours 24 minutes ago
NORTHFIELD, Ill., Nov. 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Everyone hates traffic. It eats up time, wastes energy and emits harmful carbon dioxide. As population and urbanization increase, experts say traffic is only getting worse. Kraft Foods is addressing this challenge by finding alternatives to trucking and making its distribution network more efficient. Since 2005, innovative sustainability projects have saved the company more than 50 million miles (80 million km) in its global transportati...

Partner Communications Announces Its Intention to Issue Notes Through a Private Placement in Israel [Press Release]
Business Wire | 4 days 23 hours 47 minutes ago
Partner Communications Company Ltd. ("Partner" or "the Company") (Nasdaq: PTNR) (TASE: PTNR), a leading Israeli mobile communications operator, announces that it is initiating a process to raise approximately NIS 360 million through a private placement of up to two series of unsecured non-convertible Series B and Series C notes (collectively, the "Notes") to institutional investors in Israel (the "Offering"). The final amount that may be raised will be determined based on the results of the t...