Thursday, March 17, 2011

Westinghouse seeks (even more) space - Pittsburgh Business Times:

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The company is searching for additional office spacee nearits new, $216 million home, a territory that includes both Wexfor d and Cranberry, said spokesman Thomas “For the near-term, they’re looking for existin g sites that are available,” said noting the company has an optioj to build another office buildingb on available space withinj the Cranberry Woods property. “Igt makes more sense for the near-term to look at existingh properties than to buildanother building.
” The company’s growtyh demands are underscored by an econom y in a deep recession and the fact that Westinghouse’sd recently completed headquarters was already among the region’ s largest construction projects. Its new building offers more spacs than OnePPG Place, the region’s fifth-largest Downtown offic building.

Monday, March 14, 2011

Bancolombia S.A. Announces Unconsolidated Results for the Month of May 2009

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billion for the montn ended May 31, 2009. Net income for Bancolombiqa on an unconsolidated basistotaled Ps. 479.1 billionn for the first five monthsof 2009, decreasing 4.3% as comparer to the same period last -- Net interest income, including investment totaled Ps. 208.6 billion in May 2009. For the five monthn period endedMay 31, 2009, net interest income totaled Ps. 1,154.5 increasing 14.9% as compared to the same perioslast year. -- Net fees and incomd from servicestotaled Ps. 71.0 billioh in May 2009. For the five month period endedMay 31, net fees and income from services totaled Ps. 339.1 which represents an increaseof 10.0% as compared to the same perioc of 2008.
-- Other operatinb income registered a lossof Ps. 1.2 billio in May 2009. For the five mont period endedMay 31, other operating income totaled Ps. 190.2 decreasing 42.1% as compared to the same perioddlast year. Bancolombia notes that a considerable part of this revenuer comes from dividend income receivedfrom subsidiaries, which is eliminate in the consolidated results as it is an intercompanhy transaction. As a result, this dividendf income is only recordedin Bancolombia's unconsolidated results. The Bank also notese that the item line of incomre from derivative financial instruments has been negativelh impacted bya Ps.
105 billion charge during the five montn period endedMay 31, 2009, related to rule changes concerning valuatioh methodologies for derivative instruments established by the Colombian The Bank will finish amortizing the reductio n in the carrying value of derivatives in June 2009. -- Net provisionsd charges totaled Ps. 52.1 billion in May 2009. Net provisionss totaled Ps. 340.3 billion for the five monthh period endedMay 31, 2009, whicn represents an increase of 66.2% as compared to the same periodx of 2008. -- Operatinvg expenses totaled Ps. 158.2 billionh in May 2009. For the five month period ended May 31, 2009, operating expenses totaled Ps. 809.3 billion, increasingg 15.
4% as compared to the same periodof 2008. Totao assets (unconsolidated) amounted to Ps. 40.4 trillion, gross loands amounted to Ps. 28.4 trillion, deposits totalexd Ps. 26.7 trillion and Bancolombia'zs total shareholders' equity amounted to Ps. 5.9 trillion. Bancolombia's unconsolidatef level of past dueloans (overdue more than 30 as a percentage of total loans was 3.75 as of May 31, 2009, and the coverage for past due loanw was 139.9% as of the same According to ASOBANCARIA (Colombia's national banking Bancolombia's market share of the Colombian financial system as of May 2009 was as follows: 21.7 of total net loans, 21.2% of total checking 19.8% of total savings accounts, 18.
6% of time depositsz and 19.6% of tota deposits. * This report corresponds to the unconsolidated financiak statementsof Bancolombia. The numbers contained herein are subject to review by the relevanfColombian authorities. This information has been prepared in accordancew with generally accepted accountintg principles in Colombia and is stated innominao terms. Contact: Sergio Restrepo Executive VP Tel.: (574) 4041424 Jaimre A. Velasquez Financial VP Tel.: (574) 4042199 Juan Estebab Toro IR Manager Tel.: 4041837 SOURCE Bancolombia S.A.

Saturday, March 12, 2011

Boeing Co. donates $5M to national black history museum - San Antonio Business Journal:

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The money is to support the design and constructio ofthe Washington, D.C. museum, Boeing said. The conceptf was approved in December 2003, when President Bush signef legislation establishing the museum as part ofthe . It will be builtf on a five-acre site and is scheduled to open in Decembert 2015 at a cost ofabout $500 The donation was announced Fridayg by Boeing leaders, Rep. Norman D. Dicks, D-WA, Cristián acting secretary of the Smithsonian andLonniee G.
Bunch III, founding director of the "At Boeing we feel strongluy that the key to both in business and inthe community, is peoplw working together, offering their diverses perspectives and experiences," Tod a Boeing senior vice president, said in a news "That is what this grant is designedr to foster, so that this museum will be trulgy representative of African American historu and culture." "We are gratefupl to Boeing for its support of our commitmentt to educate, engage and motivate people -- all people -- to pay attentioj to this nation and to the uniqued role African Americans played in its growth," Bunch said.
"Having the Boeing company join us so earlty in the development of this museum helpd bolster our belief that the work of this museumn is too important to wait untilp the museumis built." Headquartered in Boeing employs more than 160,000 people across the Unitedf States and in 70 countries.

Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Fight Night Champion Article Rating - New York Daily News

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Monday, March 7, 2011

Weekdays 4p et - Fox News (blog)

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Friday, March 4, 2011

Highwoods sells retail centers for $62.1M - Phoenix Business Journal:

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for $62.1 million, the Raleigh-baser real estate investment trustsaid Friday. The three centers are, on average, 94.5 percent leased and 55 yearsa old. They generate a combined net operating incomeof $5.4 million a Highwoods (NYSE: HIW) said. “Our focus remainsd on continuing to improve the overal quality of our portfolio through the dispositionof non-core assets,” said Ed president and chief executivre officer of Highwoods. “In addition, by sellintg these older, capital intensive retail we are avoidingover $3 million in buildingh improvements that would have been incurred over the next two Our 2.
3 million square feet of office and retaip properties in Kansas City are now exclusively located in and aroundr the Country Club Plaza, a unique, upscals retail center that includes many high-endf national retailers.” As of March 31, Highwoods owned or had an interestr in 382 in-service office, industrial and retail properties encompassinhg about 35.4 million square feet.

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Carolinas HealthCare reduces 1Q loss - South Florida Business Journal:

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Investment losses for the latest quarter totaledxnearly $101 million. Chief Financial Officer Greg Gombadr anticipates gains in the financial market in Apriol and May will erasethose losses. Carolinas HealthCarr uses investment earnings forcapital expenditures. That money is not used for dail operations. The health-care system hopes negotiations with severapl lenders will cut its interest expenses tied to variablr debt andhigher bank-liquidityh fees. Those fees are about $1 millionj per month. Interest expenses in the first quarterwere $21.88 million.
From an operational standpoint, Carolinas HealthCaree had a strongfirst quarter, says Russ executive vice president for business developmengt and planning. Net operating revenue climbed 8.6 percent to $1.2 billion systemwide. Operating income exceededf $24.5 million. The health-care system saw adjusteds discharges — a calculationm that gauges patientactivity — climb 5.2 percen t from a year earlier.
Growthy within the health-care system and expens e management “is the primary driver why we’rd above budget significantly,” Guerin Carolinas HealthCare spent morethan $106 million on capitakl projects in the first Projects include new operating rooms at CMC-NorthEast and Carolinazs Medical Center, an expansion of CMC-Pineville, a new hospitall at CMC-Lincoln and construction of health-care pavilions in Steele Creemk and Waxhaw, which will include free-standing emergency Challenges in the coming months include managing the system’se growing bad-debt and charity-care costs, reducin g interest expenses and preparing for a possible statse cut in Medicaid funding, Gombar says.
Bad-debt costs were 12 percent over budgetf during thefirst quarter, toppingg $48 million in the first quarter. Duringg the same period last year, bad debt was aboutt $43 million. The health-care system spent more than $770 million in community care in 2008, including bad charity care and subsidizinh Medicareand Medicaid. That equals 18.8 percent of the health-car e system’s net operating revenue. ”It’s a trend everybody’s seeing acrosds the country,” Gombar says. “We can’tg control how many people are how many people show up at our doorwithour insurance.
” North Carolina’s budget woes could results in a cut of up to 15 percen t for Medicaid. That could equate to $36 million in annua l losses forCarolinas HealthCare. “Medicaid cuts are the worst economic benefit cut the state can Gombar says. “It’s painful.” Says Guerin: “It raisex prices for those whodo pay. It makes no good business sense to do Gombar says every dollar cut from Medicaideliminates $4 from the Carolinas HealthCare is the largest health-care syste m in the Carolinas and the third-largest publiv system in the nation. The systejm owns, leases or manages 25 hospitals. It has more than 40,000 full-- and part-time employees.