The Board of Directors of Aspis Holdings Public Co Ltd (ASP) has declared a 4 euro cent interim dividend, with the cum-dividend date set for February 11, 2008. The payment of the dividend in cash or shares will be carried out on Tuesday, March 11, 2008. The Company is calling an EGM for February 22,

The Board of Directors of C.B Holdings Limited announced that it has proceeded via pre-agreed package with the purchase of 4,355,308 shares of Caramondani Bros Public Company Limited that corresponds to 43.45% of its share capital from G. Caramondani Investments Ltd and Stavros Caramondanis at the price of EUR0.68 per share.  As a result, the

OPEC on Thursday looked set to rebuff consumer calls for more crude, saying it was powerless to help stave off recessionary pressures in the West. Enjoying a sixth year of crude price gains, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries argues it can do little to help avoid a slowdown in the United States, its

TOKYO, Feb 1 (Reuters) – Japanese shares edged down on Friday, dragged by worries about the U.S. economy ahead of key jobs data and a slide in Sony Corp shares to a 14-month low after the electronics giant lowered its profit forecast. Additional downward pressure came from Mizuho Financial Group and other banks after Mizuho

Risk management is at the heart of banks’ financial intermediation process. Islamic financial institutions, like their conventional banking peers, face many challenges in adequately defining, identifying, measuring, selecting, pricing and mitigating risks across business lines and asset classes, albeit that the actual risks may differ, Moody’s Investors Service said in its special report entitled “Risk

March Networks, a leading provider of intelligent IP video and business analysis applications based in Ottawa, announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Cieffe S.p.A. of Italy and its related company Insignis Technologies S.r.l. Cieffe, based in Milan, develops high performance IP video surveillance solutions used by enterprise-class organizations across Europe,

The decline in the credit quality of Western European issuers of debt eased in 2007 compared to 2006 despite rising borrowing costs, due largely to an unexpected rebound in the second quarter, mainly in the non-financial, speculative-grade sector, Moody’s Investors Service said in a new report. Overall credit quality did, however, remain in negative territory

Rarely has the global economy faced as high a level of “transition risk” in recent years as it does today, Moody’s Investors Service said in a new report. While the central scenario remains rather robust, the probability of a highly adverse outcome has increased somewhat, with a number of plausible stress scenarios meriting serious consideration.

Gameloft posted consolidated sales of €25.8 mln in the last quarter of 2007, up by 19% from the previous year. On a comparable exchange rate basis the fourth quarter growth would have reached 26%. Full year sales increased by 40% compared to 2006, reaching €96.1 mln, in line with the company’s guidance. Sales of downloadable