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WASHINGTON -- Only a tiny fraction of whistleblowers bringing claims against companies have been successful since the passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley law five years ago, raising questions about the ability [...]

WASHINGTON -- In a sign of the explosion in audit activity since the passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley compliance law, the median fees earned by the world's top auditing firms shot [...]

WASHINGTON -- A group of some of the largest international banks has called on the US Securities and Exchange Commission to remove from its website a link displaying the names [...]

WASHINGTON -- Trading on the Intercontinental Exchange, the over-the-counter energy platform, should be brought under the oversight of the futures regulator as part of efforts by Congress to safeguard energy [...]

WASHINGTON -- The US Treasury yesterday warned hedge funds not to be 'lulled into a false sense of confidence' by the sophistication of risk management, saying there was still 'a [...]

Nickel prices could continue to rally and even reach Dollars 65,000 a tonne this year, according to Jeremy Gray, head of the mining research team at Credit Suisse. That would [...]

WASHINGTON -- Financial centres such as London and New York should not promote their regulatory systems to attract business, a top US regulatory official has suggested. Roel Campos, a commissioner [...]

WASHINGTON -- In January, Karl Rove, the president's chief political strategist, gave a speech that epitomised his breezy confidence about the future for the party. Republicans had gone from being [...]

WASHINGTON -- Signs emerged last night that closer scrutiny of hedge funds was back on the agenda for US lawmakers after a key Republican on the Senate's banking committee called [...]

Senator Tom Harkin, Washington's crusader on health and childhood obesity, keeps a popcorn machine in his Washington office that dispenses the 'Jolly Time' brand from his home state of Iowa. [...]

When McDonald's holds its fiscal year-end conference call with investors tomorrow, the fast food chain is likely to serve up a bullish analysis of its performance over the past year. [...]

WASHINGTON -- Wendy's announced yesterday the departure of Tom Mueller, the fast-food chain's chief operating officer for the past five years, as the company battles slowing sales and a resurgent [...]

CHICAGO -- Futures industry brokers want exchanges and clearing houses to halve the cost of clearing in the next three years, signalling the start of a fresh effort to squeeze [...]

In a presentation to analysts in October, Sara Lee's then chief operating officer Brenda Barnes included a slide headed 'Next Steps'. At the top of the list was the sentence: [...]

Ihop Corporation, a California-based restaurant chain offering pancakes and bacon-and-egg breakfasts, will soon start offering customers a pamphlet explaining the calorie and fat content of some of its foods. 'We [...]

Hambledon Mining has now initiated the feasibility study into the development of the Sekisovskoye gold deposit in east Kazakhstan for which it raised Pounds 2.5m when it listed on Aim [...]

Reduced finance costs and an improvement in operating profits combined to produce a 17 per cent rise in pre-tax profit at Lambert Howarth, the fashion group with agreements to supply [...]

A focus on new markets and organic growth helped Reliance Security, the private security guard group and facilities management operator, to a 9 per cent increase in full-year turnover to [...]

Genus, the bovine genetics group, has announced that it is on the hunt for acquisitions after producing a 58 per cent rise in pre-tax profit to Pounds 8.14m for the [...]

CHICAGO -- The Chicago Board of Trade plans to launch electronically traded gold and silver futures contracts in a move that could challenge the New York Mercantile Exchange's global leadership [...]

Shares in Flying Brands rose 13 per cent to 164p yesterday as the Jersey-based home shopping group announced that better customer targeting and improved cost control had helped it increase [...]

Maytag, the US appliance manufacturer, for most of this year has been stepping up efforts to shift away from its reliance on selling lower-priced white goods such as basic washing [...]

Heineken, the Dutch brewing group, yesterday posted a better-than-expected 29 per cent profit rise in 1998, but warned that earnings growth was set to slow this year. Karel Vuursteen, chairman, [...]

CHEMICALS Earnings warning from DSM DSM, the Dutch chemicals group, has warned that tough conditions in key emerging markets would have a 'substantial' impact on its first-quarter earnings. The company, [...]

ABN Amro, the Netherlands biggest bank, yesterday proved its resilience to emerging-market woes by posting a 4.5 per cent rise in 1998 net profit, beating its own forecast of a [...]

In recent years, the Netherlands has become something of a torch-bearer for reform of Europe's creaking economies. The country's success in taming unemployment - just over 5 per cent - [...]

DUTCH ECONOMY Spending spree boosts GDP The biggest consumer spending spree in more than 20 years fuelled a 3.7 per cent rise in Dutch gross domestic product last year, the [...]

The Dutch government yesterday launched a fresh inquiry into allegations that the El Al jumbo jet which crashed into an Amsterdam suburb more than six years ago was carrying a [...]

KLM, the Dutch airline, stuck to its full-year profits outlook yesterday despite a third-quarter loss blamed on an industry-wide slump and effects of a strike at Northwest Airlines, its US [...]

Neopost, Europe's largest maker of mailroom equipment, is to list on the Paris stock exchange later this month in an initial public offering that will value the company at about [...]

Microsoft, the world's largest software group, yesterday made its second move into the European cable television industry this week when it agreed to buy a $300m ([pound]182m) stake in United [...]

Microsoft, the world's largest software group, yesterday made its second move into the European cable television industry this week when it agreed to buy a $300m equity stake in United [...]

Philips, Europe's largest electronics group, yesterday cut its profit forecast for 1998 owing to Fl 2bn (907m, $1.05bn) in charges to be taken for the fourth quarter. The Dutch company, [...]

Philips, Europe's largest electronics group, yesterday cut its profit forecast for 1998 owing to Fl 2bn (907m, Dollars 1.05bn) in charges to be taken for the fourth quarter. The Dutch [...]

Microsoft, the world's largest software group, yesterday made its second move into the European cable television industry this week when it agreed to buy a Dollars 300m equity stake in [...]

NETHERLANDS France Telecom to merge units France Telecom said on Friday it would merge Dutchtone and Casema, its phone and cable subsidiaries in the Netherlands, into a single holding company [...]

Shares in Baan fell 8 per cent yesterday after the ailing Dutch business software group said it expected a fourth-quarter loss of $250m and widened its estimate of its third-quarter [...]

Shares in Baan fell 8 per cent yesterday after the ailing Dutch business software group said it expected a fourth-quarter loss of Dollars 250m and widened its estimate of its [...]

United Pan Communications (UPC), Europe's biggest provider of private cable television services, and Dutch utility Nuon yesterday sealed a Fl 550m (249m, $289m) deal giving UPC full control of United [...]

United Pan Communications (UPC), Europe's biggest provider of private cable television services, and Dutch utility Nuon yesterday sealed a Fl 550m (249m, Dollars 289m) deal giving UPC full control of [...]

TEMPORARY EMPLOYMENT SERVICES Randstad to buy German rival Randstad, the Dutch temporary employment agency, said yesterday it had agreed to buy German rival Time Power, boosting the company to the [...]

TEMPORARY EMPLOYMENT SERVICES Randstad to buy German rival Randstad, the Dutch temporary employment agency, said yesterday it had agreed to buy German rival Time Power, boosting the company to the [...]

United Pan-Europe Com-munications, Europe's largest private cable television provider, plans to list on Nasdaq and the Amsterdam SE by mid-February. Amsterdam-based UPC, which launched its marketing campaign for the issue [...]