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By Claire Ruckin LONDON, April 30- Bahrain- based private equity firm Investcorp has agreed a sale of its German insulation firm Armacell to Charterhouse Capital Partners for over 500 million euros, it said on Tuesday. Charterhouse's acquisition will be backed with debt financing provided by BNP Paribas and Credit Suisse.
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LONDON/ WARSAW, April 30 Fitch Ratings has affirmed Bank Ochrony Srodowiska's Long-Term Issuer Default Rating at' BBB' with a Stable Outlook. The Polish state controls BOS through the state-owned National Fund for Environment Protection and Water Management, which held a 57% stake in the bank at end-Q113.
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April 30- First NBC Bank Holding Co:. *First nbc bank holding co sees IPO of 4.2 million shares priced between. $22.00 and $26.00 per share- SEC filing.
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April 30- Simplicity Bancorp Inc:. *Q3 earnings per share $0.18. *Qtrly net interest income decreased 4.9% to $7.0 million.
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April 30- Health insurer Aetna Inc said on Tuesday that first-quarter earnings fell due to costs from buying Coventry Health Care, but it projected an increase in medical customers and profit for 2013 due to operating improvements.
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*Q1 earnings per share $0.94.
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*Q4 revenue $11.4 million versus $11.5 million. *Q4 non-GAAP earnings per share $0.04. *Q4 loss per share $0.05* Source text for Eikon* Further company coverage.
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April 30- National Technical Systems Inc:. *Q4 revenue rose 8.8 percent to $43.8 million. *Q4 loss per share $0.03* Source text for Eikon* Further company coverage ().
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April 30- Shopper's Stop Ltd:. *India's Shopper's Stop Ltd says March-quarter net profit 152 million rupees. *Says March-quarter gross retail turnover 7.09 billion rupees.
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Fitch Ratings has affirmed the Issuer Default Rating Long-term foreign currency PT Pertamina at' BBB-' with a stable outlook.
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LAGOS, April 30- Nigeria's Union Bank said on Tuesday it had posted a pre-tax profit of 9.06 billion naira in 2012, compared with a 107.68 billion naira loss a year earlier. Gross earnings rose by 33 percent to 112.79 billion naira, from 85.1 billion naira the previous year, the bank said in a filing with the Nigerian Stock Exchange.
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*Q1 net profit 988 mln Sfr vs 601 mln Sfr in Reuters poll. ZURICH, April 30- UBS's private bank attracted the most customer money for six years in the first quarter, recovering from a poor end to 2012 and backing the Swiss bank's drive to focus on managing wealthy clients' cash.
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*Q1 net profit 988 mln Sfr vs 601 mln Sfr in Reuters poll. ZURICH, April 30- UBS's private bank attracted the most customer money for six years in the first quarter, recovering from a poor end to 2012 and backing the Swiss bank's drive to focus on managing wealthy clients' cash.
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Net Profit 2.45 vs 2.45 Net Sales 84.41 vs 63.23 EPS 3.27 vs 3.27 NOTE: Petronet LNG Ltd transports and stores liquiefied natural gas* Source text:* Further company coverage ().
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ATHENS, April 30- Greece's fourth-biggest lender Eurobank will issue new shares under its recapitalisation plan at a price of 1.541 euros after being adjusted for a 10- for-1 reverse split, chief financial officer Paula Hadjisotiriou said on Tuesday.
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April 30- Ashoka Buildcon Ltd:. *Board to consider bonus issue and stock split. *Source text: Ashoka Buildcon Ltd has informed BSE that a meeting of the Board of Directors of the Company will be held on May 10, 2013, inter alia, to consider and approve the audited Financial Results of the Company for the quarter& year ended March 31, 2013.
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LONDON, April 30- Spain's second largest bank BBVA has attracted orders of over USD5bn for its Additional Tier 1 perpetual non-call five year bond and guidance has been revised to 9.25% area from initial price thoughts set at 9.5% area, according a lead banker.
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Shares in Wacker Chemie gain 3.1 percent as traders say slightly lower than expected first-quarter profits numbers are not preventing a rebound following a steep decline since the end of February. "There were no great expectations anyway and in the meantime all the bad news is priced in already," a trader says.
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*Sets up Fontem Ventures, may make acquisitions. *H1 earnings fall 3.1 percent, hit by Europe, Russia. LONDON, April 30- Imperial Tobacco, the world's fourth-largest cigarette group by market share, said it had set up a venture to develop electronic cigarettes, as it battles an increasingly tough consumer environment in Europe.
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*FTSE 100 rises 0.3 pct. *BP and Lloyds rise after robust Q1 earnings. LONDON, April 30- Britain's benchmark share index rose on Tuesday, inching back towards its 2013 highs after upbeat earnings reports from BP and Lloyds bank and on expectations for a European Central Bank rate cut this week.