| NASA Embezzlers Ordered To Repay Money
ORLANDO, Fla. -- Two NASA employees who pleaded guilty this summer to embezzling thousands of dollars from the space agency were sentenced Friday at a federal court hearing in Orlando to repay the money they took, serve time in prison and perform community service. Judith Lynna Frisbee, 46, of Titusville, admitted to falsifying records and inflating expense reports by the amount of $120,577, Local 6 News partner Florida Today reported. She faced up to 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. Frisbee was sentenced instead to 16 months in jail, three years probation, and 150 hours community service. She also must make restitution in the amount of $127,029. .
'One in ten uses credit card daily'
A tenth of credit card holders use their plastic to buy something every day, a survey has shown. Around 34 million Britons now have a credit card and more than three million of these people say they use it on a daily basis, according to high street bank Abbey. At the same time, 54% of people use their credit card at least once a week, but 35% of cardholders claim they use their plastic just once a month, with younger people most likely to fall into this category. The most popular reason for using a credit card is to shop online, with 61% of cardholders saying they regularly use their plastic to make purchases over the internet. People also regularly use their cards to buy things on the high street at 55%, while 50% use them for big ticket items.
08/11/07 10:22 CROISSANCE D'ABERTIS EN HAUSSE SUR LES 9 PREMIERS MOIS DE L'ANNEE 2007 GRACE AUX ACTIVITES AEROPORTS, ...
Les pr�visions de cl�ture de l'exercice 2007 visent une hausse de 9 % des revenus d'exploitation, une hausse de 10 % de l'Ebitda et une hausse de 28 % du b�n�fice net.
- Les revenus d'exploitation s'�l�vent � 2 750 millions d'euros (+ 10 %) sur cette p�riode.
- L'Ebitda s'�l�ve � 1 782 millions d'euros (+ 10 %).
- Le flux de tr�sorerie net est en hausse de 12 %, � 1 062 millions d'euros.
- Le b�n�fice net au 30 septembre 2007 est en hausse de 22,4 % � 559 millions d'euros, d�passant celui de 530 millions d'euros enregistr� pour l'ann�e 2006.
- Investissements (capex) � 1 287 millions d'euros.
- Good performance at Sanef (toll roads) with traffic up 3.3%, and also Eutelsat (telecommunications) which saw revenue rise 4.8% for the 2006/2007 fiscal year and 6.2% in the first quarter 2007/2008 (ended 30 September 2007).
HSBC takes $3.4bn bad debt hit
LONDON (SHARECAST) - Shares in HSBC rallied as it revealed a bad debt charge of $3.4bn in the third quarter but added revenues had picked up and costs had fallen. HSBC say the bad debt charge was $1.4bn more than implied by extending first-half trends and reflected a deterioration in the subprime housing market in recent months. Even so, profit before tax in the third quarter of 2007 was ahead of the equivalent quarter in 2006 and the group's performance for the first nine months of 2007 was also ahead of the comparable period last year. Underlying revenue growth in the third quarter was higher than in the first half of the year; and underlying cost growth was moderately lower, HSBC added. In Asia-Pacific and the Middle East, the excellent operating and financial performance delivered in the first half of the year continued during the third quarter, while Europe, driven by the UK, was strongly ahead of the prior year quarter.
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