Big cruise lines put a crimp in the competition (San Jose Mercury News)
Bargain hunters love competition. And many savvy cruisers count on Web browsing to compare prices for the best bargains. Apparently, the fierce fight for your travel dollar rankled the biggest players in the cruise business, leading several major lines to level the playing field.
Deals (San Jose Mercury News)
Book a cruise, get a gift card. Everyone is getting into the act: For cruises booked by Thursday, Travelocity is offering Target store gift cards worth $25-$600, depending on the length of the cruise and the line chosen.
Carnival keeps wine flowing by mail (San Francisco Chronicle)
Carnival Cruise Line, the company that almost single-handedly inspired the term "booze cruise," is aiming at a decidedly more, ahem, erudite audience with a new wine-of-the-month club, the pet project of the company's admittedly oenophilic president.
CARNAL KNOWLEDGE (Portland Phoenix)
You might expect, with a product name like the Ultimate Love Machine, that the newfangled mating mechanism conceived by Illinois resident Jim Johnstone would not only satisfy aroused longings way better than a dirty magazine, but also tie you up, slap you around, and steal your wallet when it’s through.
Updates, advisories and surprises (Investors.com)
CORRECT: Nuvelo Q4 loss widens (5:59 PM ET) SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) - Nuvelo Inc.(NUVO)Tuesday after the bell reported a fourth-quarter loss of $13 million, or 40 cents a share, vs. a loss of $9.4 million, or 37 cents a share, a year ago.
Updates, advisories and surprises (Investors.com)
Quebecor World gets lift from Q4 report (11:55 AM ET) NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Shares of Quebecor World(IQW)(CA:IQWSV)advanced more than 7 percent to $22.78 after the Montreal commercial printing company posted earnings of $45 million, or 26 cents per share, for the fourth quarter, a marked improvement over its year-ago loss of $54 million, or 48 cents per share.
Updates, advisories and surprises (Investors.com)
RTW Inc up 28% after Q4 earns more than double (10:46 AM ET) NEW YORK (MarketWatch) - RTW Inc.(RTWI)Tuesday leapt up $2.41, or nearly 28 percent, to $11.15 after the Minneapolis provider of workers compensation services posted fourth-quarter income of $7 million, or $1.25 per share.
Updates, advisories and surprises (Investors.com)
Nyer Medical Group Q2 profit more than quintuples (11:29 AM ET) SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Nyer Medical Group(NYER)on Tuesday reported fiscal second-quarter net earnings of $129,746, or 3 cents a share, compared with $22,707, or 1 cent a share, last year.
Updates, advisories and surprises (Investors.com)
NBTY January sales up 1% to $151M (8:28 AM ET) NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- NBTY Inc.(NTY)said Tuesday it posted sales of $151 million in January, up 1 percent from its year-ago total of $150 million.
(AFX UK Focus) 2005-02-15 12:46 GMT: Updates, advisories and surprises - UPDATE 4 (Interactive Investor)
Qwest narrows Q4 loss to $139M vs $569M (7:27 AM ET) NEW YORK (AFX) -- Qwest Communications International Tuesday reported a fourth-quarter loss of $139 million, or 8 cents per share, narrower than its year-ago loss of $569 million, or 31 cents per share.
