Thursday, March 11, 2010

SPB News for Thursday





More Messages Link Senator to Job Effort — WASHINGTON — Previously undisclosed e-mail messages turned over to the F.B.I. and Senate ethics investigators provide new evidence about Senator John Ensign's efforts to steer lobbying work to the embittered husband of his former mistress and could deepen his legal and political troubles.

KBR receives $94 million contract for new hospital KBR Inc. said Tuesday that its building subsidiary received a $94 million contract to provide various construction services for a new hospital near Atlanta. KBR's Building Group was awarded the contract by Piedmont Healthcare to provide pre-construction and construction services for a replacement facility for Piedmont Newnan Hospital in Newnan, Ga.

Europe bars Wall Street banks from government bond sales --Leading US banks blamed for triggering financial crisis --Policymakers propose a rival European monetary fund European countries are blocking Wall Street banks from lucrative deals to sell government debt worth hundreds of billions of euros in retaliation for their role in the credit crunch. For the first time in five years, no big US investment bank appears among the top nine sovereign bond bookrunners in Europe, according to Dealogic data compiled for the Guardian.

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