The October 3, 2002 was a Thursday under the star sign of ♎. It was the 275 day of the year. President of the United States was George W. Bush.
If you were born on this day, you are 23 years old. Your last birthday was on the Friday, October 3, 2025, 258 days ago. Your next birthday is on Saturday, October 3, 2026, in 106 days. You have lived for 8,659 days, or about 207,839 hours, or about 12,470,373 minutes, or about 748,222,380 seconds.
Date: 03 October 2002
By Bloomberg News
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Chrysler unit of DaimlerChrysler is expanding availability of some no-interest loans and lowering interest rates on other 2003 models as it adjusts its strategy of offering fewer sales incentives than General Motors and Ford Motor in US (S)
Date: 03 October 2002
By Bloomberg News
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Libbey Inc says third-quarter profit fell more than forecast as sales declined and expenses increased; sales fell to at least $104 million from $107 million (S)
Date: 04 October 2002
By Bloomberg News
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Island ECN says president-chief executive Matthew Andresen has resigned to become head of global trading at Sanford C Bernstein & Co; chief technology officer Will Sterling replaces Andresen as president (S)
Date: 03 October 2002
By Bloomberg News
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Sears, Roebuck & Co shifts $191 million in costs related to accounting change to second qaurter from first after discussions with Securities and Exchange Commission; increases first-quarter 2002 net income by $191 million and reduces second-quarter net income by same amount (S)
Date: 03 October 2002
By Bloomberg News
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KPMG Consulting Inc, which was spun off from accounting firm KPMG LLP in $2 billion initial public offering in February 2001, changes its name to BearingPoint Inc to emphasize its independence (S)
Date: 03 October 2002
By Bloomberg News
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Comerica Inc cuts second- and third-quarter earnings by $213 million because of bad loans and decline in value of its mutual fund unit (S)
Date: 04 October 2002
By Bloomberg News
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Auction house DoveBid scraps $60 million initial public offering (S)
Date: 04 October 2002
By Bloomberg News
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Heineken and its Latin American partner Florida Ice and Farm Co agree to buy Cervecerias Baru-Panama, second-largest brewer in Panama, for $56 million (S)
Date: 04 October 2002
By Bloomberg News
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Renong, engineering conglomerate taken over by Malaysian government year ago, says it needs to raise 400 million ringgit ($105 million) to stay afloat, setting off sharp decline in its share price; graph (S)
Date: 04 October 2002
By Bloomberg News
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Fiat's car sales in Italy fell for ninth month in September as company failed to attract buyers with price cuts and no-interest financing; sales slipped 7.5 percent; car sales for all manufacturers in month rose 3.4 percent, first gain in 2002; Fiat's market share fell to record low of 28.7 percent from 32.1 percent year earlier (S)
Date: 04 October 2002
By Bloomberg News
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Taiwan scraps plans to sell $1.6 billion stake in Chunghwa Telecom Co to overseas investors this year after its shares fall to half level of their initial public offering two years ago (S)
Date: 03 October 2002
By Bloomberg News
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Hutchison Whampoa Ltd, controlled by Li Ka-shing, cancels $1.45 billion bond sale; move limits financing options for Li as he tries to sell mobile phone services linked to Internet across Europe (S)
Date: 04 October 2002
By Bloomberg News
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eBay completes $1.5 billion purchase of Paypal, electronic payments company; says senior vice president Matt Bannick will assume duties previously handled by Paypal's chief executive Peter Thiel, who resigned (S)