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Business briefcase

This week

By Times Staff Writer
Published July 11, 2005


TODAY: Coast Dental Services Inc. holds its annual meeting in Tampa; federal judge decides whether to approve settlement under which former WorldCom CEO Bernard Ebbers forfeits nearly all his assets.

TUESDAY: Oral arguments in former investment banker Frank Quattrone's bid to have his obstruction of justice conviction overturned; Procter & Gamble Co. holds a special shareholders meeting to vote on a proposed acquisition of Gillette; PepsiCo Inc. and Media General Inc., owner of the Tampa Tribune and WFLA-TV Ch. 8, release earnings.

WEDNESDAY: Commerce Department reports on international trade for May; Treasury reports on federal budget for June; sentencing of Bernard Ebbers, former CEO of WorldCom; shareholders vote on the proposed takeover of Nextel Communications by Sprint Corp.; Federated Department Stores Inc. to hold shareholder meeting to seek endorsement of the planned acquisition of May Department Stores Co.; Apple Computer Inc. and Gannett Co. among those reporting earnings.

THURSDAY: Commerce Department reports on retail sales for June; Labor Department reports on consumer price index for June; Knight-Ridder Inc., Southwest Airlines Inc. and Tribune Co. release earnings.

FRIDAY: Labor Department reports on producer price index for June; Commerce Department reports on business inventories for May; Federal Reserve reports on industrial production for June; General Electric Co. reports earnings.

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