• Henry Schein Wraps Buyback, Acquisition Revolver

    In the past two years, the distributor of medical, dental and veterinary equipment has completed a n...

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    Quidel Secures Finances For Product Expansion

    The company is looking to expand in diagnostics testing focusing on three main health areas: infecti...

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    Otelco Wraps Rural Telecom Buy With Loan

    The telecommunications industry is consolidating, and were consolidating what we consider the smalle...

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    Borrowing to invest a good strategy

    GEARING is a technical term that conjures up bland images of balance sheets and financial statements...

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    Santander unit aims for 25-30% annual ROE

    Spain's Santander (NYSE: STD) is aiming for its Uruguayan unit to achieve 25-30% annual ROE over the next few years as it consolidates its leading position in the country, Santander Uruguay chairman Jorge Jourdan told BNamericas. The bank r...

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    Prosecutor wants Madoff jailed immediately

    Prosecutors on Monday said disgraced financier Bernard Madoff violated bail conditions by mailing about $1 million worth of jewelry and other assets to relatives and should be jailed without bail. The defendants recent actions amount to obst...

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    BancoEstado aims to maintain growth in small business segmen

    Chilean state bank BancoEstado aims to maintain similar loan and client growth in the small business segment next year as in 2008 despite the impact from the global financial crisis, small business manager Ricardo Auad Salvador told BNameri...

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    Analyst forecasts 10-15% loan growth

    Lending among Colombian banks will likely slow this year to 10-15%, analyst at local brokerage Interbolsa Jos Fernando Restrepo told BNamericas. After growing at 30% plus rates in 2007, lending in Colombia including leasing kept deceleratin...

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    BancoEstado insurance brokerage to increase client segmentat

    The main objective next year for the insurance brokerage of Chilean state bank BancoEstado is to increase the commercial segmentation of certain client segments, the subsidiary's general manager Fernando Silva told BNamericas. The focus of...

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    State-sponsored AFP bill seen delayed until March 2009

    Chile's government has delayed sending a bill to create a state-run pension fund manager (AFP) until March next year, local newspaper El Mercurio reported quoting government spokesperson Jos Antonio Viera-Gallo as saying. Throughout 2008 th...

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