Archive for February 24th, 2008


Qatari seen eyeing RBS investment

Posted by UK Economy News
In UK financial news
24Feb 08

The Qatari government is considering making an investment in Britain's second biggest bank, the Royal Bank of Scotland , the Sunday Telegraph has reported.
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Bain Capital Partner's $2.2 billion (1.1 billion pounds) bid to buy 3Com Corp with China's Huawei Technologies failed due to acquisition complexities and rising costs, Huawei said in its first public comments since U.S. national security concerns scuppered the deal on Wednesday.
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Switzerland's UBS on Sunday denied a newspaper report that its Chairman Marcel Ospel would definitely leave after another year at the helm, but reiterated that his future after this period was undecided.
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A landmark German assault on tax dodgers who allegedly stash cash in Liechtenstein overlooks domestic failings and practices by neighbors like Luxembourg and Switzerland, tax experts say.
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Japanese automobile sales in other Asian markets are forecast to reach five million units in 2008, surpassing the domestic market for the first time, a newspaper said Sunday.
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With many of China's 1.3 billion people eating them every day, it's not surprising that instant noodles are big business in China where an economic boom has created a generation of instant noodle eaters.
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