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米銀ワコビア、ARS買い戻しに合意 NY州司法当局がメリルを訴追
Wachovia in Auction-Rate Buyback; Merrill Lynch Faces Suit by Cuomo (WSJ.com)
NEW YORK -- Two Wachovia Corp. units will buy back billions of dollars in auction-rate securities they sold to retail clients, charities and small to medium-sized businesses as part of an agreement in principle with state and federal regulators probing how they marketed the complex securities.
Under the agreement, regulators estimate the Charlotte financial-services company's Wachovia Securities LLC and Wachovia Capital Markets LLC units will buy back $5.7 billion to $6.4 billion from retail customers by Nov. 28. The units will buy back an additional $2.1 billion to $3.1 billion in auction-rate holdings from other clients next June.
Wachovia, which ...
small to medium-sized businesses: 中小企業
米チョコ最大手ハーシー、再び値上げ 原材料・燃料高騰を受け
Hershey, Again, Raises Prices To Help Offset Higher Costs (WSJ.com)
Hershey Co. again raised wholesale prices, pushing domestic prices up nearly 10% to offset rising raw-material and fuel costs, prompting the company to be pessimistic near-term.
In after-hours trading, Hershey shares were down 5.4% at $39.30.
"Commodity costs have been volatile over the last several years and continue to remain at levels that are well above historical averages," said David J. West, president and chief executive. ...
wholesale price: 卸売価格
raw-material and fuel costs: 原材料・燃料費
トヨタ、2020年までに全てのモデルをハイブリッド対応へ
Toyota to Make Hybrid Engine Available on All Its Models (WSJ.com)
Hot off its success with its best-selling Prius sedan, Toyota Motor Co. announced Friday that it would make hybrid-engine systems available on all of its models by 2020.
The announcement came as all of the auto makers at an industry conference this week in northern Michigan maneuvered to carve out their own niches in fuel-efficient design, from expansion of the gasoline/electric hybrid technology already available in the Prius to the new plug-in hybrid vehicle known as the Volt under development by General Motor Corp.
Ford Motor Co., the Dearborn-Mich. auto maker with few of its vehicles with hybrid options, plans to double its hybrid-vehicle lineup and production next year. And Honda Motor Co. said this week at the Traverse City, Mich., conference that in 2009, it will import a new hybrid to compete directly against the new Prius in the U.S. market -- and at a lower price.
to carve out one's own niche in: ～のニッチ市場を開拓する
plug-in hybrid vehicle: プラグインハイブリッド車
Volt: GM開発中の次世代FCV（燃料電池車）、EVに限りなく近いプラグインハイブリッド車
７月米鉱工業生産指数、前月比0.2％上昇 成長鈍化、公共事業は生産縮小
Industrial Output Growth Slows (WSJ.com)
WASHINGTON -- U.S. industrial production slowed in July, pulled back by a drop in output at utilities as the weather turned fairer.
Industrial production increased 0.2%, following a revised 0.4% climb in June, the Federal Reserve said Friday. Previously, June output was seen rising 0.5%.
Capacity utilization increased to 79.9% in July. June capacity use was 79.8%, revised down from an originally reported 79.9%. The 1972-2007 average is 81.0%.
utilities: 電力などの公共事業
capacity utilization: 設備稼働率
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