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careplus cpls seeks approval in acquisition careplus inc said it will seek shareholder approval of its proposed acquisition of certain assets and assumption of certain liabilities of professional care inc pci in connection with the acquisition shareholders will be requested to approval the merger of careplus into its newly formed delaware subsidiary careplus said careplus said its board has tentatively determined that its stock would be exchanged for common stock of the new corporation at the rate of seven for one reuter
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u s feb consumer credit rose billion dlrs u s consumer instalment credit rose a seasonally adjusted billion dlrs in february after a revised rise of mln dlrs in january the federal reserve board said the annual rate of growth in february was pct up from pct in january previously the fed said consumer credit rose mln dlrs in january among the credit categories auto credit rose in february by mln dlrs after increasing mln dlrs in january the fed said revolving credit in february rose billion dlrs after falling by mln dlrs in january mobile home credit was down by mln dlrs in february after rising mln dlrs in january the category referred to as other covering bank and credit union loans increased by mln dlrs in february after rising by mln dlrs in january the fed said before seasonal adjustment consumer credit outstanding totaled billion dlrs at the end of february compared with billion dlrs at the end of february reuter
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group to buy more intermedics itm shares an investor group including bessemer securities corp and cilluffo associates told the securities and exchange commission it asked federal antitrust regulators for advance clearance to hold more than mln dlrs of intermedics inc common stock the group said it currently holds mln shares or pct of the total outstanding following purchases of shares march april a group spokesman would not disclose the total purchase price of its current holdings the group has said it is accumulating intermedics stock for investment purposes reuter
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seagate technology sgat rd qtr march net shr cts vs cts net vs sales mln vs mln avg shrs vs nine mths shr dlrs vs cts net vs sales mln vs mln avg shrs vs reuter
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group raises texstyrene foam stake to pct an investor group led by dart container corp a sarasota fla plastic utensil maker told the securities and exchange commission it raised its stake in texstyrene corp to common shares or of the total outstanding the group said it bought the shares for investment and intends to continue to buy texstyrene stock in the future the group said its most recent purchases included shares bought march in ordinary brokerage transactions reuter
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enro holding buys enro shirt and foxcroft enro holding corp said it acquired enro shirt co and foxcroft ltd from wilson bros for mln dlrs enro holding is owned pct by investors and pct by management and others the investor group bought pct of the common equity and supplied five mln dlrs in mezzanine financing management bought the other pct congress financial group supplied mln dlrs in senior financing and the seller took back a note for mln dlrs enro shirt has annual sales of about mln dlrs and foxcroft has sales of about mln dlrs reuter
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spartech sptn reverse stock split approved spartech corp said shareholders at the annual meeting approved a reverse stock split of the common stock on a one for five basis the company said the split was necessary in preparation for an offering of mln dlrs in convertible subordinated debentures expected to be made soon through kidder peabody and co it said the new common stock will begin trading april under the symbol sptnd separately spartech said its board appointed bradley buechler as president filling a vacancy it said lawrence powers remains as chairman buechler prior to his promotion was executive vice president and chief operating officer he will retain his duties as chief operating officer reuter
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people ridesharing systems ride st qtr net shr primary profit two cts vs loss nine cts shr diluted profit one cent vs loss six cts net profit vs loss revs vs avg shrs vs note full name of company is people ridesharing systems inc reuter
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desjardins group lowers visa interest rate la confederation des caisses populaires et d economie desjardins the quebec credit union group said it is lowering the interest rate on unpaid balances on its visa credit card to pct from pct effective with june billing statements the move follows cuts in credit card interest rate charges by several canadian banks reuter
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seeq technology inc seeq nd qtr march shr profit eight cts vs loss dlrs net profit vs loss revs mln vs avg shrs vs six mths shr loss nine cts vs loss dlrs net loss vs loss revs mln vs mln avg shrs vs reuter
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nacco industries nc to report nd qtr gain nacco industries inc said it will report a gain in the second quarter of about mln dlrs or dlrs a share from the sale of stock of a subsidiary nacco said its north american coal corp unit has received notice that consolidation coal co a unit of du pont co dd will exercise an option to buy all of the stock of quarto mining co a subsidiary of north american coal for the stock north american coal will receive about mln dlrs mln of which will be paid at closing april and the rest in installments the company said in addition quarto will pay a dividend to north american coal of about mln dlrs from retained earnings before closing the funds were previously used to finance mining operations consolidation coal got the option from the capco group of utilities which received the option from nacco in nacco reported earnings of mln dlrs or dlrs a share in last year s second quarter in quarto generated mln dlrs in net income equal to cts a share of nacco s total earnings of dlrs a share quarto produced about mln short tons of the mln tons produced by north american coal in nacco said reuter
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buffton buff to post investigation charge buffton corp said it will conduct an investigation on a plant designated as a superfund site which will result in a charge of about six cts per share in its second quarter in the year ago second quarter buffton reported net income of cts a share or dlrs on sales of mln dlrs the study should be completed in nine months and will determine any clean up or remedial action that may be required robintech inc the plant s former owner will split the cost buffton said its share will cost dlrs reuter
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american dynamics amdc to sell pct stake american dynamics corp and meridian reserve inc said they signed a definitive agreement under which meridian will buy mln shares or pct of american dynamics common stock under terms of the agreement santa ana calif based meridian said it will pay columbus based american dynamics one mln dlrs in cash and notes over five years and about shares of its common stock meridian said it has the option to issue an additional shares of its common over the next two years in payment of certain of the notes meridian an oil and gas company whose operations are primarily in oklahoma said the acquisition will increase its its consolidated assets to mln dlrs and its contractually committed gas reserves to more than mln dlrs at discounted present value american dynamics is engaged in gas gathering transmission and liquids extraction also in oklahoma the companies said they have five extracting plants and about miles of transmission lines in five adjoining oklahoma counties reuter
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ussr exchange rates soviet state bank effective april roubles per hundred unless stated u s stg bfr dmk dfl lit can dkr nkr ffr skr unch fin mrk unch sfr yen aus sch aus dlr unch pak rup unch ind rup unch irn ryl unch lib din one unch mrc drhm unch
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italy s eni to invest in venezuelan projects italy s state owned ente nazionale idrocarburi eni will invest mln dlrs in two joint ventures in coal and petrochemicals with petroleos de venezuela s a eni president franco reviglio said speaking at a news conference reviglio said the two projects will eventually bring in some mln dlrs annually in foreign exchange to venezuela and help diversify the country s export base joint ventures are the principal instrument for allowing the resources of the industrialized countries to be channeled to the developing world so as to lead future growth for both reviglio said eni s subsidiary ecofuel will join pequiven the petrochemical subsidiary of pdvsa in building a mln dlr plant to produce mtbe a gasoline additive used to increase octane levels the mt per year plant will be constructed at jose in eastern venezuela and fed by butane produced at pdvsa s eastern cryogenic complex eni owns pct of the joint venture company super octanos c a while pequiven has pct with the remaining three pct to be sold to private investors production is set to begin in third quarter ecofuel officials said the plant is modeled after one in saudi arabia another eni subsidiary agip carbone will sign a letter of intent in caracas tomorrow to enter a partnership with pdvsa to mine the coal deposits at guasare in western zulia state he said feasibility studies are still being done on the carbozulia project with a definitive accord slated for august he added agip carbone and atlantic richfield coal an arco subsidiary have formed a consortium which will own pct of the carbozulia project whose total cost is estimated at mln dlrs the company said agip carbone will invest pct or mln dlrs in the project it said reuter
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republicbank rpt to reclassify brazil loans republicbank corp said it has placed mln dlrs of all intermediate and term loans to brazil on a non accrual basis as of march it said the reclassification will reduce first quarter earnings by mln dlrs after taxes and mln dlrs after taxes for all of if brazil does not change its position of a moratorium on interest payments republicbank also said its net income for the first quarter is expected to be about mln dlrs or cts a share on a fully diluted basis in the year ago first quarter the company earned mln dlrs or cts a share the company also said its first quarter results are expected to include a provision for loan losses of mln dlrs about mln dlrs over net loan charge offs of about mln dlrs it said the provision will increase loan losses to about mln dlrs or pct of loans republicbank with total assets of about billion dlrs announced in december an agreement with interfirst corp ifc to form first republicbank corp if the merger is approved by regulatory agencies and stockholders it would create the th largest bank holding company in the united states reuter
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amoskeag bank amkg to seek rehearing amoskeag bank shares inc and portsmouth savings bank said they will file motions for a rehearing with the new hampshire supreme court of its march ruling that overturned state regulatory approval of amoskeag s acquisition portsmouth the ramifications of this decision we believe go well beyond the affiliation of amoskeag and portsmouth savings bank said amoskeag chairman william s bushnell the transaction was opposed by a group of portsmouth investors who wanted the bank to remain independent according to press reports reuter
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doe recommends special unit to enrich uranium energy secretary john herrington told congress that a federally chartered corporation would be the best way to manage and operate the government s uranium enrichment program he said in a letter to congressmen that unless the program now run by the energy department is improved sales worth five billion dlrs could be lost between and the program now has annual commercial sales of about one billion dlrs and holds pct of the free world market for enrichment services a department official said the world market for enriched uranium for reactors for power utilities is increasingly competitive and private entity could better tap it the administration s plan to spin off the department s uranium enrichment operation is in line with it effort to reduce the federal government s role in areas where it feels private enterprise could be more efficient reuter
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trilon declares stock dividend trilon financial corp said it declared a stock dividend of one class a share for each two class a shares held payable may to shareholders of record on april reuter
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allegheny ag prefered shareholders file suit allegheny international inc which has agreed to a merge with a jointly formed first boston inc affiliate in a deal worth mn dlrs said shareholders of its preferred stock have filed a class action complaint against the company the complaint alleges among other things that the company and its board agreed to pay first boston an illegal seven mln dlr topping fee if it received a higher offer for the company prior to the buyout the suit contends that this fee hampers allegheny s ability to attract other offers or take other actions that would benefit holders of preferred stock the complaint also alleges federal securities laws violations and breach of fiduciary duty the suit requests an injunction against proceeding with the pending offer being made by sunter acquisition to acquire allegheny sunter acquisition corp and sunter holdings corp were formed by first boston and allegheny allegheny said it and the sunter concerns intend to vigorously defend the complaint s charges the complaints were filed by robert moss and other parties who are believed to own about shares of allegheny s preferred stock reuter
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canadians urge exemption from u s trade bill a group of canadian lawmakers from ontario today asked their u s counterparts to exempt canada from the mandatory trade retaliation provisions in a major trade bill being considered by the u s congress at a meeting of the northeast midwest coalition an organization of u s legislators david cooke chairman of the ontario parliament s select committee on economic affairs said the exemption would help trade relations the trade legislation to be considered by the full house in late april would require president reagan to retaliate against foreign unfair trade practices unless the trade actions would harm the u s economy currently reagan can reject trade sanctions on any grounds cooke a member of the liberal party told the u s congressmen i can understand the trade bill i think it has to do with concerns you have with the other parts of the world i would suggest to you that we are your best friends you do not have those concerns with canada and you should sincerely consider exempting our country from that bill he added canada is the united states largest trading partner with two way trade more than billion dlrs in according to the coalition but the u s ran up a billion dlr deficit in manufactured goods that year compared to a billion dlr surplus in services trade with its neighbour reuter
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american agronomics corp agr nd qtr feb shr profit one cts vs loss three cts net profit vs loss revs mln vs mln six months shr profit six cts vs loss six cts net profit mln vs loss mln revs mln vs mln note six months includes gain of four cts from change in accounting principle reuter
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helig meyers co hmy increases dividend qtly div eight cts vs seven cts prior payable may record april reuter
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helig meyers co hmy year feb shr dlrs vs dlrs net mln dlrs vs mln revs mln vs mln note results reflect year month period because company changed fiscal year to end february from march reuter
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kelly oil and gas partners kly year dec shr cts vs cts net mln vs mln revs mln vs mln reuter
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japan seeks to strengthen paris currency accord japan will seek to strengthen the paris accord on currency stability at the meeting of the group of seven leading industrial nations tomorrow japanese officials said however the officials travelling with japanese finance minister kiichi miyazawa and who asked not to be identified would not provide any details of how they wanted the accord which was signed by the six leading industrial democracies in february to be strengthened currency target zones or reference ranges will not be discussed at the g meeting which is scheduled for tomorrow the japanese officials said the meeting which is being held in conjunction with this week s international monetary fund world bank sessions will reaffirm the currency pact and there is no need for changing the language used in the paris accord the officials said miyazawa met with u s treasury secretary james baker early in this afternoon and discussed the dollar yen exchange rates officials said but they declined to disclosed the details of that discussion the japanese officials also declined to detail what miyazawa and baker discussed on the subject of greater joint intervention in currency markets to stabilize the dollar or on independent american intervention the officials said such a money market action to stabilize the dollar is not only for the benefit of japan which is suffering from a sharp appreciation in its currency but also for the benefit of the united states as well as to u s urgings for japan to take steps to boost its domestic demand to reduce its trade surplus japan will explain economic measures to the g the officials said however miyazawa failed to outline the size of the japanese economic package in his meeting with baker today because the japanese budget has not been authorized by the diet or parliament despite the new fiscal year which started april one the officials said japan s ruling liberal democratic party revealed its own economic package today calling for more than billion yen in additional spending reuter
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tcw convertible securities cvt sets dividend tcw convertible securities fund inc said its board declared an initial quarterly dividend of three cents per share payable april to shareholders of record april tcw said it anticipates paying a regular quarterly dividend the company made its initial public stock offering march five reuter
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n z unemployment rate pct in december quarter new zealand s unemployment rate was pct of the workforce in the quarter ended december unchanged from a revised pct preliminary pct in the previous quarter but slightly above pct in the year earlier quarter the statistics department said the department citing the household labour force survey said in a statement the number of unemployed in october december was against in the september quarter and a year earlier reuter
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japan rubber stocks fall in march japan s rubber stocks fell to tonnes in march from in february and from in march the japan rubber trade association said the stocks in tonnes with february and year earlier comparisons were march feb march crude rubber synthetic latex reuter
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south korean won fixed at month high the bank of korea said it fixed the midrate of the won at to the dollar its highest level since february when it was the won was set at yesterday the won has risen pct against the dollar so far this year after rising pct in reuter
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nippon mining lowers copper price nippon mining co ltd said it lowered its selling price for electrolytic copper by yen per tonne to effective immediately reuter
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australian unions launch new south wales strikes australian trade unions said they have launched week long strikes and other industrial action in new south wales nsw to protest against new laws that would reduce injury compensation payments union sources said talks with the state government broke down last night but the two sides are scheduled to meet later today in an attempt to find a compromise rail freight and shipping cargo movements in the country s most populous state were the first to be affected and union officials said almost every business sector will be hit unless there is a quick settlement the state government recently introduced a new workers compensation act which would cut the cash benefits to injured workers by up to a third the act is now awaiting parliamentary ratification nsw state premier barrie unsworth has said workers compensation has risen steeply in recent years and the proposed cuts would save hundreds of mlns of dollars a year union officials said industrial action could spread to other states as the federal government also plans to make sharp cuts in workers compensation reuter
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