News in brief: Sept. 15, 2005 (The Deal) Austin, Texas-based software maker Activant Solutions Inc. has completed its $215 million acquisition of Prophet 21 Inc. Activant, which provides enterprise resource planning software and services to small and midsize businesses, purchased Yardley, Pa.-based Prophet 21 from Thoma Cressey Equity Partners Inc. and Philadelphia's LLR Partners .
Home sizes fall short, some area buyers say (The Sacramento Bee) Home homeowners allege JTS Communities, one of Sacramento's largest locally based builders, sold them houses that are as much as 168 square feet smaller than sales brochures indicated.
Fitch Announces 'Morning Credit Brief' Seminars in Chicago, 10/19, & New York, 10/21 (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance) Fitch Ratings will host credit seminars in Chicago and New York this October to discuss several key trends and issues affecting global credit markets. Topics include default/recovery analysis, a discussion and outlook for the U.S. auto industry, trends in the collateralized debt obligation sector, and the effect hedge funds are having on global credit markets.
Vital Signs for the Week of Sept. 12 (BusinessWeek) On tap: August consumer and producer price indexes, industrial production figures, initial September consumer sentiment, and more
Fitch Revises Hertz's Rating Watch to Negative from Evolving (The Auto Channel) NEW YORK--Sept. 12, 2005--Fitch Ratings has revised The Hertz Corporation (Hertz) and its subsidiaries Rating Watch status to Negative from Evolving.
Trader Classified Media-First Half 2005 Results (CCNMatthews via Yahoo! Finance) AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS-- - Trader Classified Media N.V. -
Flow International Announces Preliminary Fiscal 2006 First Quarter Results (The Auto Channel) KENT, Wash., Sept. 15 -- Flow International Corporation , the world's leading supplier of ultrahigh-pressure waterjet products, today reported preliminary results for its fiscal 2006 first quarter ended July 31, 2005. On a consolidated basis, FLOW reported quarterly sales of $49.7 million and operating income of $2.4 million, or 4.9% of sales, and net income of $708,000 or $0.02 basic and diluted
Today's Business (Myrtle Beach Online) Washington | Rates on 30-year mortgages, after declining for three weeks, were unchanged this week, while other types of mortgages dipped lower on expectations of slower economic growth in coming months.
