Moody’s Investors Service holds a stable outlook for Germany‘s private hospitals for 2008, supported by the expectation that the sector will maintain solid margins, stable operating cash flows, adequate liquidity cushions and a successful track record of integrating acquired hospitals. In a new Industry Outlook report on German private hospital operators, Moody’s said that rating

The inflation-fuelled ramp-up in expenditure by governments across the six-member Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) risks triggering an inflationary spiral that would be difficult to control in the absence of other policy options and would further raise fiscal pressures, Moody’s Investors Service said in a new Special Comment. Although the consequences for governments’ creditworthiness — and

Businesses and governments must make better use of their communications and computing infrastructure if they are to benefit from the full economic and social benefits of ICT, according to a breakthrough study by Professor Leonard Waverman of the London Business School and global economic consulting firm LECG. According to the study, commissioned by Nokia Siemens

Ericsson has been chosen by TELE Greenland as Core IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) supplier to deliver integrated fixed and mobile convergent services. Ericsson’s Core IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) will be employed to develop TELE Greenland next-generation offering. IMS-based services enable communication through various media – such as voice, text, pictures and video, or a combination of them –

The value of the Middle East, Africa and South Asia region’s financial technology market has been estimated at USD 6 bln in 2007 with expectations of an annual growth of 15% due to the increased spending of leading regional firms on core banking system and IT infrastructure upgrades. Leveraging the tremendous opportunities within the region,

adidas AG will launch a share buyback program of up to 5% of the company’s stock (up to 10,182,248 shares). This implies an aggregate purchase price of up to EUR 420 mln. adidas AG intends to cancel repurchased shares, thus reducing its stock capital. As a result, the Group’s equity ratio will decrease and earnings

Capital Intelligence (CI), the international rating agency, has raised Qatar‘s long-term foreign currency and local currency ratings to AA- from A+ and its short-term foreign- and local-currency ratings to A1+ from A1. The outlook for Qatar’s ratings is ‘stable’. The ratings reflect the increasing strength and flexibility of the government’s balance sheet and the country’s