China Finance Online Co., Limited , a leading Chinese online financial information, data, and analytics provider, today announced that on November 23rd, 2007, it successfully completed the acquisition of 85% equity interest of Daily Growth Investment Company Limited, a licensed securities brokerage firm incorporated in Hong Kong with a history of over 35 years.
Under the [...]

Global Equity Corporation announces that it has purchased 60 units (the “Units”) representing 0.3% and now owns 1,740 Units representing 7.6% of the outstanding Units of Banff Rocky Mountain Resort Limited Partnership (the “Partnership”). Together with Units of the Partnership held by Phoenix Capital Inc., a party, which may be considered to be a joint [...]

Xinhua Finance Media , China’s leading diversified financial and entertainment media company, today announced that it has acquired JCBN Company Limited, an advertising company with operations in Shanghai, Beijing and Hong Kong (”JCBN Group”).
”This acquisition enhances our multimedia advertising platform for advertisers who are interested in reaching China’s high net worth demographic, and strengthens XFMedia’s [...]

Access Growth LLC a growth consulting and investment firm headquartered in Sunnyvale, California is announcing the launch of a new International Expansion that will focus on creating and implementing custom international growth platforms for medium and large companies. Access Growth is launching this new program in fifteen countries and planning to expand into several more [...]

Highlights:
- Independent consultant, Read, Swatman & Voigt (Pty) Ltd. (“RSV”) has estimated the total pre-production capital costs for the Mowana Mine and finalized the practical mine design for the open-pit
- Proven and Probable Reserves have been reported by RSV and comprise approximately 26% of the total indicated and measured resources on a contained [...]

Gas infrastructure company Gasunie has successfully completed negotiations to purchase the gas transport division of the north-German company BEB Erdgas und Erdöl GmbH (BEB). This transport division was jointly owned by Shell Verwaltungsgesellschaft für Erdgasbeteiligungen and ExxonMobil Central Europe Holding GmbH. BEB’s high-quality gas transport network adjoins the Gasunie grid and reaches as far as [...]

Grupo Elektra S.A. de
C.V. (BMV: ELEKTRA*; Latibex: XEKT), Latin America’s leading specialty
retailer, consumer finance and banking services company, announced that it
will introduce “FAW” automobiles into the Mexican market — with state of
the art technology, and top safety and emission control standards –
oriented to new customers in the marketplace in the first quarter of 2008.
[...]

UK homeowners face a hard time ahead. Rate hikes are finally starting to hurt and push many homeowners to the brink of financial ruin. Consequently, repossession rates in the UK have been steadily rising. Yet, repossessions are often avoidable and according to HyperSaver, a UK based property company, it is possibly to stop the repossession [...]

IKON Office Solutions (NYSE:IKN), the world’s largest independent channel for document management systems and services, today announced that its Board of Directors has approved the repurchase of $500 million of its common stock. IKON intends to repurchase up to $295 million of its common stock through a modified “Dutch Auction” self-tender offer at a price [...]

Acuity Funds Ltd. (“Acuity”), as manager,
announced today further details of a special meeting of unitholders, on
December 13, 2007, of Acuity Growth & Income Trust (the “Fund”) (TSX: AIG.UN)
whereby unitholders will be asked to consider and approve amendments to the
Declaration of Trust of the Fund, including changing the permitted ranges of
the securities in which the Fund [...]