15 April 2004 00:53
TRADER TALK
HEDGE fund Lansdowne Partners has taken profits on its stake in Peter Hambro Mining ahead of full-year results.
Lansdowne, run by former Merrill Lynch fund managers Peter Davies and Stuart Roden, reduced its stake by 800,000 shares
to 3.8 million or 5.9% of the GBP330 million company. Peter Hambro specialises in gold mining in Russia.
www.citywire.co.uk IN PROSPECT
CITY WHISPER
SOME observers of internet search engine Google say the launch by the company of a free email service raises the
prospect of it becoming a threat to Microsoft's dominant Windows operating system. They say Google has been quietly
building one of the world's largest supercomputers, reportedly made of more than 100,000 servers running on
Linux.
SPEAKING OUT
People who leave want to come back because they miss The Trump action. I would never have them back.
Donald Trump describes to Fortune how loyalty to The Trump pays
IN PROSPECT
TOMORROW is the deadline is for bidders in the auction for Canary Wharf to revise their offers according to Takeover
Panel rules. Main bidders for the company behind the Docklands development are American investment bank Morgan Stanley
and Canadian developer Brascan. If neither changes its bid, shareholders will then have to decide which offer to
accept.
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RUSSIA IN FACTS
