Time For Symbion To Be Sorted?

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It's getting to be time when the boards of Symbion Health, Healthscope and Primary Healthcare should abandon their prima donna status and start talking about some rational decision making and outcomes in the 12 month-long soap opera.

Pipe Networks Rises on Profit Upgrade

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Shares in Pipe networks (PWK), provider of telecommunication services, rose up as much as 11.3% after upgrading its guidance for the 2007/08 financial year.

ACCC Gives Primary the Thumbs Up for Symbion

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The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has given its OK for Primary's proposed $2.65 billion takeover bid for healthcare company Symbion Health.

Gentex Corporation: Court Renders Opinion in Litigation Between Gentex and Muth

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ZEELAND, MI (MARKET WIRE) The United States Bankruptcy Court in the Eastern District of Wisconsin recently rendered its opinion in the case of Debtors (Muth Mirror Systems, LLC, et al, hereafter "Muth") v. Gentex Corporation (NASDAQ: GNTX) ("Gentex") v. Debtors, et al. (Case No. 06-25609-DVM).

Gold: Sino Expands While Lihir Falls

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Some significant news on the gold front today.

Lihir’s New Downgrade

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But while there was good news from Qantas and Flight Centre, we heard different stories from Lihir Gold and engineer, Bradken.

National Bank of Canada: National Bank of Canada: Notice of Intention Regarding the Exercise of Options

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MONTREAL, QUEBEC (MARKET WIRE) National Bank (TSX: NA) today announced that Patricia Curadeau-Grou, Executive Vice-President, Finance, Risk and Treasury has expressed her intention to exercise up to 30 000 options, as of December 21, 2007.

QAN/FLT Fly Higher

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It is somehow appropriate that as we approach the end of 2007 that two of the more egregious takeover attempts of the year should be once again exposed for the rorts they were.

Centro Companies Bitten By US Freeze

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Last Friday and Monday we saw two floats and two takeover deals abandoned as the impact of the subprime crisis and credit freeze took their toll on investor appetite for financial IPOs and big deals.

eResearch: eResearch Issues Update Report on Hi Ho Silver Resources Inc.

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TORONTO, ONTARIO (MARKET WIRE) Hi Ho Silver could easily be renamed Hi Ho Moly as the Company is concentrating its efforts in proving up its resource status on its Carmi molybdenum property.