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...Standard & Poor’s has downgraded the long-term credit rating of Weir, the industrial valve and pumpmaker that has suffered from the commodities slump, one notch to ‘BBB’ from ‘BBB+’, reports Michael Pooler...
...Other sales over the past few years include a 45 per cent stake in UAE-based valve manufacturer KEF Holdings to Tyco International in March 2011, and four Holiday Inn Express hotels in Dubai....
...Hitachi, which has said it expects more than 60 per cent of the value chain of its UK plants to be spent on local materials and services, plans to use Britain as a bridgehead to target work in the rest of...
...While major oil service companies such as Halliburton prefer to make their own pumps and operate a vertically integrated business model, Weir is keen to target its growing portfolio of pumps and valves directly...
...Discover Financial Services , the Illinois-based credit card company, fell 1.2 per cent to $23.60 after revealing regulators plan to bring an enforcement case over its marketing of fee-based products....
...oil services company....
...The House Financial Services Subcommittee on Capital Markets will on Tuesday hold a hearing about the turmoil last week....
...Tom MacKenzie, spokesman for the US Fish and Wildlife Service, said: “This is an incredibly large spill that we’re facing. It has the potential to be devastating to wildlife.”...
...Liffe, the derivatives arm of NYSE Euronext, is collaborating with LCH.Clearnet, its clearer, on the launch of a service called Bclear in the fourth quarter....
...The hundreds of newspapers, television stations and other “free media” offer a “relief valve” for the Iraqi public to debate the issues of their burgeoning democracy, Rumsfeld said....
...SUPPORT SERVICES Where banking mergers are a long-term favourite of M&A speculation, the support services sector is a newcomer to the limelight....
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