SYDNEY, June 30 (Reuters) - Australian investment firm Babcock & Brown Ltd , hit by worries over high debt earlier this month, won a reprieve from its lenders, sending its shares up as much as 17 percent on Monday. Two-thirds of Babcock ...

BANGALORE (Reuters) - GMAC LLC (nyse: GJM - news - people )'s money-losing mortgage unit said investors have tendered about $9.5 billion of bonds as part of a restructuring designed to help it avoid running short of cash. The sum is about two-thirds ...

Gov. Kirk Fordice used to say that he opposed casinos but became a convert when tourists' money started flowing and he saw that two-thirds of the license plates at Mississippi's casinos were from out of state. Republican Fordice defeated Democratic ...

Google faces human rights votes - BBC Business by Investment manager The top three executives at Google control about two-thirds of the voting ... Tag: Investment manager

BEIJING, April 28 (Reuters) - More than two-thirds of U.S. businesses operating in China find that rising costs for labour and other inputs are cutting into the country's competitiveness as an investment destination, a survey released on Monday ...

I got my hair cut. Thought I'd mention that. Anyhoo, my spam filter on Hotmail has taken to sucking recently. While it used to effectively filter out almost all spam I got, it now regularly sends a good two thirds of the spam directly to my inbox. Not that I get a lot, mind, though I do seem to be g ...

“It’s worth taking a moment here to understand the used-book market. For most of the past few decades it has actually been comprised of two very different markets. About two-thirds of it was the thriving and efficient textbook business ...

(with permission) By K. Kesavapany In a confounding repudiation of conservative pundits who had predicted otherwise, Malaysia ’s ruling coalition, the Barisan Nasional (BN), has failed to secure a two-thirds majority in the country’s 12th General Election. Although the BN’s simple majority enables i ...

New York Daily News - We're spooked at the pump. About half of people surveyed called high gas prices their top economic concern in 2008, the Civil Society Institute found. Nearly two-thirds expect gas to hit $4 a gallon by summer. If that happens, about half said they'd ...

Chicago Tribune - As head of a political action committee that will dole out about $1 million by Election Day, Craig Wolf made a critical decision a while ago: He decided to shift his group's donations so that two-thirds will go to Democrats rather than, as before, to ...