I don't know where Blair got his numbers, but the CBI (Confederation of British Industry) where I talked this morning had a sell-out audience and they turned away as many people as were in the audience who wanted to hear about Internet commerce, ... That doesn't sound like an apathetic audience.
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We view the terminations of CBI's CEO and COO as near-term setbacks, but do not believe that CBI's story is broken on a longer term and more fundamental level. CBI's fundamentals remain very strong, in terms of cash balance, ability to generate positive free cash flow, backlog, and pipeline of prospective awards, which we believe will weather and outlast any near-term setbacks that investors are likely to attach to the managerial changes. We firmly believe that CBI will regain lost ground on the back of its strong fundamentals, as has been in the case in the past.
We can talk and talk about what is in the book CBI report, but legislation alone will not do it. We can talk about the Computer Misuse Act till the cows come home but unless there are any meaningful punishments for computer crime then none of this makes sense.
The government prevails on the CBI not to appeal. In the face of this attempt to scuttle the investigations, I think one's conscience should question as to the propriety of what the government and the (Congress) party have been doing and certainly not question the merits of the case.
Abu Salem will be presented before the court and the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) will seek further police custody demand for a case pertaining to the Mumbai blasts in 1993.
The February CBI survey reinforces our belief that consumer spending will be unable to sustain the relatively strong performance seen in the fourth quarter of 2005.
The latest CBI Industrial Trends Survey was reasonably upbeat and suggests that the weakness of industry seen towards the end of last year may not continue into 2006.
The CBI welcomes the deregulatory aspects of the Company Law Reform Bill,