Apple: 300,000 iPads sold first day

Apple said Monday it sold 300,000 iPads in the United States on the first day the highly anticipated tablet device was available in stores.

But some fear thedegree of monetary stimulus in the pipeline could pushinflation up to the 4 percent range next year.($1=6.826 Yuan) (Reporting by Chris Buckley and Simon Rabinovitch; Writing byAlan Wheatley; Editing by Ken Wills) China. The Commonwealth of Kentucky's (the commonwealth) debt is primarily in the formof lease rental bonds, requiring appropriation. GAAPmeasures for the respective periods can be found in tables later in this releaseimmediately following the detail of net sales by geography. An extraordinary meeting of the general assembly is scheduled forNovember 24, 2009 after which the transaction is scheduled to close.Enersys will acquire the stock of OEB Traction Batteries Inc. If there is no Q1 or Q3 dividend, Q2 will in most casescorrespond to the first-half dividend and Q4 to the second-halfdividend announced before a new corporate law in 2006 allowedcompanies to pay and report dividends on a quarterly basis.

AUREOS PLANS FUND FOR SOUTHEAST ASIA On Monday, Aureos Capital will announce plans to raise a new250 million dollar fund to invest in southeast Asia, inparticular the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei,Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos. It is situated about 325 metres intothe footwall and to the southeast of the main La Mascota structure. BG Group (BG.L), BP (BP.L), Royal Dutch Shell (RDSa.L)and Total (TOTF.PA) were up 0.9 to 2 percent (Reporting by Joanne Frearson) Stocks European Markets. La traduction devra toujours êtreconfrontée au texte source, qui fera jurisprudence.AES Solar Energy ltéeContact pour les médiasEllen Gallup, tél : 703-682-6431 Copyright Business Wire 2009.

[ID:nN13465986] [ID:nNYS007529] Speaking to Reuters television, Richard Curtin, thedirector of the consumer survey, said retailers' purchase plansare being shelved and retail sales will not be robust, evenwith discounting. (GNC:AX), a majorbulk-grain handler and trader in Australia that now becomes an internationalagribusiness with operations in Australia, the United States, Canada and theUnited Kingdom.The purchase price was $655 million (A$757 million).The two firms had acquired UMH in September 2006 from Conagra Foods, Inc., aU.S. Metro Pacific and sister firm PLDT group (TEL.PS), both units of Hong Kong's First Pacific Co (0142.HK), control 48 percent of Meralco together with their ally, the Lopez family.(For a dealtalk on the Meralco deal, click on [nMAN310121]) Shares of San Miguel were unchanged in late trade on Tuesday but Meralco jumped as much as 6.12 percent Metro Pacific climbed as high as 9.25 percent. Senate Democratic leaders were expectedto introduce final bill language later on Wednesday. When youfeel the market can't go higher, then you try it on the downside and take profits," said Giuseppe-Guido Amato, strategist atLang & Schwarz in Frankfurt.