Securities and Exchange Commission steps up probe into stock option awards
Media Release
Jun. 12, 2006

Broadcom, the chip maker, and Cyberonics, the medical devices developer, were among several companies that on Monday said they had been notified by the Securities and Exchange Commission that the regulator was seeking information relating to its investigations into stock options granting practices. Equinix, the internet services and networks company, and Applied Micro Circuits also said they had been approached as part of the SEC’s informal inquiries.

Securities and Exchange Commission steps up probe into stock option awards
Media Release
Equinix, the internet services and networks company, and Applied Micro Circuits also said they had been approached as part of the SEC’s informal inquiries.
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Mirant Corporation, the Atlanta-based electricity producer, on Monday withdrew its $8bn unsolicited approach to take over rival NRG Energy
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Mirant Corporation, the Atlanta-based electricity producer, on Monday withdrew its $8bn unsolicited approach to take over rival NRG Energy, saying NRG had refused to discuss the offer.
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Lehman Brothers reported a 47 per cent jump in net income
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Lehman Brothers reported a 47 per cent jump in net income on Monday in its second best quarter ever, but its shares slumped to their lowest level in six months on inflation fears.
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Japan’s economy grew a real annualised 3.1 per cent in the three months to March
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Spectacular turn around in Japanese economy surprises all....
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Share prices have been falling in recent weeks because investors have become more nervous about risky assets
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The ongoing turmoil in global financial markets is almost entirely due to a re-pricing of risk rather than any fundamental change in the intrinsic value of assets...
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Arcelor snubs Mittal the Indian Steel kingpin based in London
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Mittal needs to learn to run his existing holdings properly first....
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Sam Palmisano, head of IBM calls big western businesses to end treating developing world as colonial masters
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Sam Palmisano, head of IBM, on Monday called on multinationals to evolve into a new type of corporation if they are to avoid an anti-globalisation backlash that leads to the election of governments hostile to the interests of big business.
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G8 warned of the threat to growth from high energy prices and trade imbalances
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Finance ministers of the Group of Eight industrialised countries said global economic growth remained strong but with oil still trading at about $70 a barrel, they warned of the threat to growth from high energy prices and trade imbalances.
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