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米ガイトナー財務長官とサマーズNEC委員長、７日に自動車問題で協議
Geithner, Summers to Hold Auto Meeting at White House Friday (WSJ.com)
WASHINGTON -- U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and National Economic Council Director Larry Summers plan to hold an auto task force meeting Friday at the White House to discuss the status of restructuring plans from Chrysler LLC and General Motors Corp.
According to a Treasury Department notice, the afternoon meeting will include cabinet-level members of the new Presidential Task Force on the Auto Industry.
The meeting comes as Treasury has been in talks with banks, auto suppliers, lawyers and other experts to get a better grasp of the cost and ramifications of a bankruptcy filing by one or more of the Detroit auto makers.
ramification: 悪影響
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123635891395454445.html
米政府、アフガン対策の国際会議 イランに参加呼び掛け、オバマ政権の対話路線
U.S. Sets Stage to Meet Iran at Afghanistan Summit (WSJ.com)
BRUSSELS -- The U.S. proposed a United Nations-led conference on Afghanistan on March 31 that would provide a forum for the first meeting between President Barack Obama's foreign-policy team and Iran's leadership.
Mr. Obama has stressed his desire to open a dialogue with Tehran in an effort to end its nuclear program and develop cooperation in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton formally proposed the Afghanistan conference at a meeting of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's foreign ministers in Brussels Thursday.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123630084848646961.html
スイス製薬大手ロシェ、本当に欲しい米ジェネンテック 買収価格引き上げ
Roche Really, Really Wants Genentech (Forbes.com)
Swiss-based Roche Holding realizes there is little it can do to provoke Genentech into accepting its takeover offer, but that doesn't mean the pharmaceutical company is going to stop trying to persuade the biotech's shareholders.
Roche Holding announced Friday that it would raise its hostile takeover bid for the California-based biotech to $93.00 per share, or $47.5 billion, from the lower offer of $86.50 per share, or $42.0 billion, that it pitched the shareholders in January. Genentech rebuffed the Swiss stakeholder's original offer of $89.00 per share, or $43.7 billion, last summer.
Shares of Genentech jumped 9.6%, or $6.84, to $89.48, on the announcement. Genentech has told Roche that it would not allow a takeover for anything less than $112.00 per share. Genentech urged shareholders Friday to take no action; it said it would eventually issue a more formal statement with its reasoning.
http://www.forbes.com/2009/03/06/roche-genentech-pharmaceuticals-markets-equity-biotech.html
米アマゾン、中古ゲーム市場に参入 ゲーム小売ゲームストップの脅威に
Amazon Gets In Used-Game Business (WSJ.com)
After enjoying a virtual monopoly in the used videogames market, videogame specialty retailer GameStop Corp. faces a threat from a potentially formidable rival, Amazon.com Inc.
The Seattle Internet retailer launched a service Thursday in which it will allow customers to trade in used videogames for store credit, taking aim at a key portion of GameStop's business.
GameStop has been enjoying strong growth even as other retailers have been battered by the recession. The Grapevine, Tex., company last month projected stronger-than-expected quarterly earnings for the period ended Jan. 31. A big reason for that is its used-game business, through which it buys games from customers and resells them. For the first 10 months of 2008, the retailer drew about 25% of its total revenue through used games, with the business accounting for almost half of total gross profit for the same time period, according to the company's financial statements.
potentially formidable rival: 潜在的に脅威になるライバル
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123628171887943085.html
米排ガス規制の厳格化、カルフルニア州が自動車業界と衝突
A clash over auto emission standards (LATimes.com)
Reporting from Los Angeles and Arlington, Va. -- California officials told the Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday that major automakers are already on track to meet the state's strict proposed limits on greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles.
But they clashed again with auto industry supporters at a daylong hearing over whether the EPA should grant California's request to allow it and 13 other states to set their own emission standards.
Automakers and dealers raised concerns over several points of California's plan and said they would welcome a nationwide standard for emission limits. California officials said they wouldn't accept any national standard that fell short of their state's.
http://www.latimes.com/news/science/environment/la-na-emissions6-2009mar06,0,2898775.story
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