Reuters Business News: Merkel opposes opening up EADS shareholder pact - MSN Money

Reuters Business News: Merkel opposes opening up EADS shareholder pact - MSN Money
At the moment we should not take any more shareholders into the EADS shareholder pact ” Merkel told Germany’s Sueddeutsche Zeitung in an interview published on Monday. “But I support closer industrial cooperation in aircraft construction as EADS has already begun ” she added.

Reuters Business News: Alltel steps up efforts to sell itself - WSJ - MSN Money

Reuters Business News: Alltel steps up efforts to sell itself - WSJ - MSN Money
In recent weeks Alltel has made overtures to AT&T and the San Antonio-based telecom giant has been willing to entertain the possibility people familiar with the matter said the Journal reported. AT&T remains skeptical about a combination because of potential antitrust problems technology-integration issues and Alltel’s stock-market capitalization which Friday stood at nearly $22 billion the Journal said.

Reuters Business News: Carmaker PSA says likely to cut jobs - report - MSN Money

Reuters Business News: Carmaker PSA says likely to cut jobs - report - MSN Money
We have to stop our fixed costs rising. PSA has just come out from a wonderful period for hiring people and we will probably have to resolve ourselves to the fact that our headcount will go down ” Chief Executive Christian Streiff said in the interview published on Monday.