The September 13, 2004 was a Monday under the star sign of ♍. It was the 256 day of the year. President of the United States was George W. Bush.
If you were born on this day, you are 21 years old. Your last birthday was on the Saturday, September 13, 2025, 293 days ago. Your next birthday is on Sunday, September 13, 2026, in 71 days. You have lived for 7,963 days, or about 191,113 hours, or about 11,466,792 minutes, or about 688,007,520 seconds.
Date: 14 September 2004
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Hollywood Casino Shreveport, which operates riverboat casino on Red River in Louisiana, says creditors forced it to file for bankruptcy protection (S)
Date: 14 September 2004
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MidAmerican Energy Holdings, which is 81 percent owned by Berkshire Hathaway Inc, will record $340 million expense after taxes to shut down money-losing zinc extraction project in California's Imperial Valley (S)
Date: 14 September 2004
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Cardinal Health Inc will restate three years of financial results and delay its report for fiscal fourth quarter by additional 15 days; earnings will fall 25 percent in first quarter of fiscal year, which began July1, from year earlier, and by 10 percent to 15 percent in first six months (S)
Date: 14 September 2004
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Whirlpool plans to spend about $320 million over four years to produce more refrigerators, washing machines and stoves in Mexico (S)
Date: 14 September 2004
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Alcoa plans to meet with workers at its Becancour smelter in Quebec in effort to end nine-week strike by United Steelworkers (S)
Date: 14 September 2004
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Frank P Quattrone, former chief technology banker at Credit Suisse First Boston who was sentenced to 18 months in prison last week, accuses Federal Judge Richard Owen, presiding judge in case, of callousness for disclosing his 15-year-old daughter's medical disorder and asks appeals court to seal letters from family and friends seeking leniency; Quattrone says letters contain personal details about his wife and daughter (M)
Date: 14 September 2004
INTERNATIONAL A3-15 Putin Issues Stunning Plan To Consolidate Power President Vladimir V. Putin ordered a stunning overhaul of Russia's political system in what he called an effort to unite the country against terrorism. If enacted, as expected, the proposals would strengthen his already pervasive control over the legislative branch and regional governments. Critics immediately said it would violate the Constitution and stifle what political opposition remains. A1 Airstrike in Falluja Kills 20 American fighter planes fired at targets in Falluja in strikes aimed at what commanders said was a meeting place for operatives working with the militant leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. Twenty people were killed , the Iraqi Health Ministry said. Two Australians and two East Asians working as security contractors in Iraq were kidnapped, Agence France-Presse reported. A10
Date: 14 September 2004
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Nasdaq composite index gains 16.07 points, or 0.9 percent, to close at 1,910.38; Standard & Poor's 500-stock index adds 1.90 points, to 1,125.82; Dow Jones industrial average is little changed, rising 1.69 points, to 10,314.76; US Treasury prices rise; price of benchmark 10-year note gains 12/32, to 100 29/32; yield falls to 4.14 percent, from 4.19 percent; graphs; charts (M)
Date: 14 September 2004
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PEA Capital, which manages seven Pimco funds, and affiliates PA Fund Management and PA Distributors agree to pay $50 million to settle Securities and Exchange Commissin accusations that they allowed Canary Capital Partners hedge fund to make frequent trades at expense of other investors; PEA Capital and its two affiliates will pay $40 million penalty and will reimburse funds and their shareholders $10 million; PEA Capital is unit of Allianz (M)
Date: 14 September 2004
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Date: 14 September 2004
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LSI Logic Corp says its third-quarter net loss will be wider than forecast because customers have too much inventory (S)
Date: 14 September 2004
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Ford Motor Co's Volvo unit recalls 460,000 sedans and wagons worldwide, largest recall in Volvo's history, after seven fires in engine fan; recall includes about 150,000 cars in United States (S)
Date: 14 September 2004
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World Business Briefing: South Korea: Executive Accepts Ruling**r
Date: 14 September 2004
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Gateway, which began selling flat-screen televisions in 2002, is retreating from business and says it may return to profitability in fourth quarter; will offer TV's only on its Web site and over phone (S)
Date: 14 September 2004
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Campbell Soup Co says fourth-quarter profit declined 20 percent, biggest drop in more than two years; net income fell to $59 million from $74 million; sales in period ended Aug 1 declined 1.5 percentt, to $1.43 billion (M)
Date: 14 September 2004
By Bloomberg News
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TNK-BP, Russian venture of BP, will increase oil output this year by more than its planned 12 percent and plans to raise spending in 2005 for second year to ramp up production as oil continues to trade near historic highs; chief executive Robert Dudley says investments in projects will be $1.5 billion to $1.9 billion next year, up from $1.3 billion planned for Aug 2004; oil output rose 17 percent, to record 1.5 million barrel per day in August, compared with average output for 2003; photo (M)