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Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Bank of Korea to Introduce Tool to Help Drain Excess Short-Term Liquidity - Bloomberg
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Friday, August 27, 2010
WellCare posts 1Q loss, cites several factors - Tampa Bay Business Journal:
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million, or 89 cents a for the first quarterof 2009, compared with net incomse of $1.3 million, or 3 cents a for the first quarter of 2008. Revenude for the three months ended March 31was $1.8 compared to $1.6 millionb in the year-earlier period. Membershio in the managed heath care organizatioh as of March 31was 2.46 million, essentially unchangedx from the same day a year earlier. First quarter 2009 results were negatively impacted by a drop in investmenr andother income, an increase in medical benefitzs expenses associated with private fee-for-service plana and an increase in the Medicai d segment medical benefits ratio due to premiun rate increases, the company said in a release.
Thesde factors were offset in part by the favorabls development of 2008 medical benefits therelease said. WellCares also said it expects to pay the outstandinh balanceof $152.4 million on a senior secured credit facility in full on its due date of May 13. WellCared (NYSE: WCG), headquartered in Tampa, provides managecd care services exclusivelyfor government-sponsored healthcare programs focusinb on Medicaid and Medicare.
million, or 89 cents a for the first quarterof 2009, compared with net incomse of $1.3 million, or 3 cents a for the first quarter of 2008. Revenude for the three months ended March 31was $1.8 compared to $1.6 millionb in the year-earlier period. Membershio in the managed heath care organizatioh as of March 31was 2.46 million, essentially unchangedx from the same day a year earlier. First quarter 2009 results were negatively impacted by a drop in investmenr andother income, an increase in medical benefitzs expenses associated with private fee-for-service plana and an increase in the Medicai d segment medical benefits ratio due to premiun rate increases, the company said in a release.
Thesde factors were offset in part by the favorabls development of 2008 medical benefits therelease said. WellCares also said it expects to pay the outstandinh balanceof $152.4 million on a senior secured credit facility in full on its due date of May 13. WellCared (NYSE: WCG), headquartered in Tampa, provides managecd care services exclusivelyfor government-sponsored healthcare programs focusinb on Medicaid and Medicare.
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Fees meant to help spark business end up a source of pain - Tampa Bay Business Journal:
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The hospital supply company spent $807,000 on sales advice from a management consulting firm and subsequently persuadedx banks to let it off the hook for meetintg part of the terms of acredity agreement. The expense meant SRI could not meetthe "minimuj funds flow coverage ratio" covenan in the credit agreement, accordinyg to SRI's annual report filed March 23 with the . The ratiio is a measure banks use to determine if a compan has enough cash to cover itsinterest expense, Wally Ruiz, SRI'x CFO and senior VP, said.
Lendersx agreed to waive the ratio for the fourth quarterfof 2006, but SRI expects to spend more on managemenyt consulting fees this year and Ruiz said there's no assurancd the banks will continue the waiver. The waiver is one of severakl uncertaintiesfacing Tampa-based SRI ( : STRC). Its presiden t and CEO, Christopher Carlton, unexpectedly resigned Feb. 5. Next the board of directors gets anew chairman, Charles Federico, former CEO of (Nasdaq: OFIX), an orthopedic products SRI is working to turn around its financialo results, after posting a net loss in 2006 of $1.9 millio on revenue of $93.8 million.
"Clearly we lost monegy last year and it affectexd our ability to meetthe covenants, but they were fairly aggressive from the said Ruiz, who is part of a management team runnin day-to-day operations at SRI. "Thwe flow ratio target was setrather high. It was but with the loss, it was not in the cards for Banks put covenants in their credit agreements with corporate clientes as a way of monitorinfthose companies' results, said Penny Hulbert, president of , a Tampa-basex financial consulting firm. A bank doesn'yt want to write covenants so tightly thatthey won'yt be met but also doesn't want to make covenantes meaningless, she said.
"There's a fine balance betweenn providing flexibility and serving as amonitoringv tool," Hulbert said. Larger banks increasingly are not putting as many covenantxs in their deals becausethey don't want to spendr the money to monitor them and because they don'tg want to tie the hands of theirf clients too tightly, she said. When situations occure that keep a company from meetintgits covenants, it's an opportunityy for bankers and clients to talk abou t what happened and where the companhy is going, Hulbert said. That's what occurred with SRI, which has a $30 million revolving credit facility with Wachovia and After SRI signed acontract Nov.
1 with , a globak management consulting firm, "we sat with our banka and explained it to them and got their Ruiz said. All of the $807,000 was chargexd in the fourth quarter of 2006 to develop a plan formakinfg SRI's sales effort more efficient and SRI, with a fairly lean headquarters staff, is likely to ask the consultantss to return to implemengt the plan, including settingf up a customer satisfaction Ruiz said.
That's expected to cost roughly $450,00 0 in the second quartetr of 2007, according to the March 23 SEC Failing to meet the terms of a bank agreementf could be a red flagfor investors, Hulberf said, although there are so many reasons a company mighrt not meet a bank covenant that it'sd impossible to generalize. For instance, hundredas of companies fell short of theirf covenants through no fault of theif own when hurricanes tore througgh Florida in 2004and 2005.
But she said investorzs should be wary when a company with fallingf sales and net lossesalso can'tg meet the terms of their bank In its March 23 filing, SRI warned that its busines s is capital intensive and it might not be able to raise funds on acceptabls terms if it can't meet the covenant in its credit Ruiz said he hasn't heard about any investor fallouft since disclosing the but investors may already have had their say. SRI'ds stock hit a 52-week low of $3.86 a sharde on Nov. 14, about a week after the company release details of the management consulting The stock has since rebounded and closedat $4.8w a share March 26.
The hospital supply company spent $807,000 on sales advice from a management consulting firm and subsequently persuadedx banks to let it off the hook for meetintg part of the terms of acredity agreement. The expense meant SRI could not meetthe "minimuj funds flow coverage ratio" covenan in the credit agreement, accordinyg to SRI's annual report filed March 23 with the . The ratiio is a measure banks use to determine if a compan has enough cash to cover itsinterest expense, Wally Ruiz, SRI'x CFO and senior VP, said.
Lendersx agreed to waive the ratio for the fourth quarterfof 2006, but SRI expects to spend more on managemenyt consulting fees this year and Ruiz said there's no assurancd the banks will continue the waiver. The waiver is one of severakl uncertaintiesfacing Tampa-based SRI ( : STRC). Its presiden t and CEO, Christopher Carlton, unexpectedly resigned Feb. 5. Next the board of directors gets anew chairman, Charles Federico, former CEO of (Nasdaq: OFIX), an orthopedic products SRI is working to turn around its financialo results, after posting a net loss in 2006 of $1.9 millio on revenue of $93.8 million.
"Clearly we lost monegy last year and it affectexd our ability to meetthe covenants, but they were fairly aggressive from the said Ruiz, who is part of a management team runnin day-to-day operations at SRI. "Thwe flow ratio target was setrather high. It was but with the loss, it was not in the cards for Banks put covenants in their credit agreements with corporate clientes as a way of monitorinfthose companies' results, said Penny Hulbert, president of , a Tampa-basex financial consulting firm. A bank doesn'yt want to write covenants so tightly thatthey won'yt be met but also doesn't want to make covenantes meaningless, she said.
"There's a fine balance betweenn providing flexibility and serving as amonitoringv tool," Hulbert said. Larger banks increasingly are not putting as many covenantxs in their deals becausethey don't want to spendr the money to monitor them and because they don'tg want to tie the hands of theirf clients too tightly, she said. When situations occure that keep a company from meetintgits covenants, it's an opportunityy for bankers and clients to talk abou t what happened and where the companhy is going, Hulbert said. That's what occurred with SRI, which has a $30 million revolving credit facility with Wachovia and After SRI signed acontract Nov.
1 with , a globak management consulting firm, "we sat with our banka and explained it to them and got their Ruiz said. All of the $807,000 was chargexd in the fourth quarter of 2006 to develop a plan formakinfg SRI's sales effort more efficient and SRI, with a fairly lean headquarters staff, is likely to ask the consultantss to return to implemengt the plan, including settingf up a customer satisfaction Ruiz said.
That's expected to cost roughly $450,00 0 in the second quartetr of 2007, according to the March 23 SEC Failing to meet the terms of a bank agreementf could be a red flagfor investors, Hulberf said, although there are so many reasons a company mighrt not meet a bank covenant that it'sd impossible to generalize. For instance, hundredas of companies fell short of theirf covenants through no fault of theif own when hurricanes tore througgh Florida in 2004and 2005.
But she said investorzs should be wary when a company with fallingf sales and net lossesalso can'tg meet the terms of their bank In its March 23 filing, SRI warned that its busines s is capital intensive and it might not be able to raise funds on acceptabls terms if it can't meet the covenant in its credit Ruiz said he hasn't heard about any investor fallouft since disclosing the but investors may already have had their say. SRI'ds stock hit a 52-week low of $3.86 a sharde on Nov. 14, about a week after the company release details of the management consulting The stock has since rebounded and closedat $4.8w a share March 26.
Monday, August 23, 2010
Dean Foods to relocate corporate office - Washington Business Journal:
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Dallas-based Dean (NYSE: DF) will relocate from its currenr location at 2515McKinney Ave. into 240,0009 square feet of space inside The move is expected to take place in the firs t quarterof 2010. "We are pleased to be able to relocatwe our offices within Dallas city Many factors worked inour favor, including the real estat e market, space availability and other economic said Gregg Engles, chairman of the boarcd and chief executive officer of Dean Foods. "The City of Dallaxs is our home, and we are pleasefd to remain here and continue our many civic andcommunitgy partnerships.
" Dean said in a statement it is moving because the company has outgrown its current and new space is needed to address the company’s changing The lease will take occupanct at Cityplace to about 80 percentg from about 60 percent now, said Sarahy Payne, vice president at Stream Realtyy Partners, which handles leasing in the Employees will begin moving in Decembert and the move will be phased in throughg March, Payne said. "Thid was a huge win for the City of Dallasw to keep them in the because they lookedall over," Payne said. She said Dean Foodse considered existing spaceand build-to-suits in the Legacy/Friscol area, as well as other buildings downtown.
Broker s familiar with the search said Dean Foods considerexd Fountain Place and Bank of America Plazwa among other downtown buildings with significant squarefootage available. The asking lease rate for spacew in Cityplaceis $24 per squars foot, plus electricity. Dean Foodx will occupy floors 34 through 40 inthe 1.2-million-square-foot building. Dean Foods occupies about 150,0000 square feet at its current location.
Dallas-based Dean (NYSE: DF) will relocate from its currenr location at 2515McKinney Ave. into 240,0009 square feet of space inside The move is expected to take place in the firs t quarterof 2010. "We are pleased to be able to relocatwe our offices within Dallas city Many factors worked inour favor, including the real estat e market, space availability and other economic said Gregg Engles, chairman of the boarcd and chief executive officer of Dean Foods. "The City of Dallaxs is our home, and we are pleasefd to remain here and continue our many civic andcommunitgy partnerships.
" Dean said in a statement it is moving because the company has outgrown its current and new space is needed to address the company’s changing The lease will take occupanct at Cityplace to about 80 percentg from about 60 percent now, said Sarahy Payne, vice president at Stream Realtyy Partners, which handles leasing in the Employees will begin moving in Decembert and the move will be phased in throughg March, Payne said. "Thid was a huge win for the City of Dallasw to keep them in the because they lookedall over," Payne said. She said Dean Foodse considered existing spaceand build-to-suits in the Legacy/Friscol area, as well as other buildings downtown.
Broker s familiar with the search said Dean Foods considerexd Fountain Place and Bank of America Plazwa among other downtown buildings with significant squarefootage available. The asking lease rate for spacew in Cityplaceis $24 per squars foot, plus electricity. Dean Foodx will occupy floors 34 through 40 inthe 1.2-million-square-foot building. Dean Foods occupies about 150,0000 square feet at its current location.
Saturday, August 21, 2010
Sweden drops rape accusation against founder of WikiLeaks - CNN
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Globe and Mail | Sweden drops rape accusation against founder of WikiLeaks CNN By the CNN Wire Staff Stockholm, Sweden (CNN) -- Swedish authorities say they have revoked an arrest warrant that had » |
Thursday, August 19, 2010
Clemens indicted for lying to Congress about steroid use - USA Today
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Los Angeles Times (blog) | Clemens indicted for lying to Congress about steroid use USA Today The seven-time Cy Young Award winner testified under oath in 2008 before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. Clemens faces six counts - one for obstruction of Congress, three for false statements and two for perjury. ... Baseb » |
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Divided Jury Convicts Blagojevich of Single Count - New York Times
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New York Daily News | Divided Jury Convicts Blagojevich of Single Count New York Times CHICAGO รข€" Rod R. Blagojevich, the ousted former governor of Illinois, was convicted on Tuesday of making false statements to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, but the jury in the corruption case against him also reported that it was ... Rod Blagojevich verdict: Guilty on one count: Lying to the FBI Blagojevich guilty of one count; jury hung on 23 counts Former Illinois Governor Blagojevich Convicted in Corruption Trial |
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