Sporting Life – The trio made their break from a 15-man leading group with 15km remaining after Levi Leiphemer and Inaki Isasi had been Ronny Scholz (Ger) Gerolsteiner at 0:02secs, 4 Manuel Quinziato (Ita) Liquigas at 0:47, 5 Sebastien Hinault (Fra) Credit Agricole
89th Giro d’Italia – GT
Cycling News – The front group swelled to 20 with three Ceramica Panaria riders: Laverde, Sella and Baliani, Liquigas-Bianchi’s Di Phonak), youngster Eltink (Rabobank), Gomez (Saunier Duval), Illiano (Selle Italia), Dion (Ag2r), Bonnet (Credit Agricole) and
European Stocks End Lower
MSN MoneyCentral – S. job cuts and Credit Agricole said it will issue discounted shares to help fund the acquisition of bank branches in Italy. The pan-European Dow Jones Stoxx 600 lost 0.3 percent to 365.26, with losers including U.K. fixed-line operator BT Group and
SocGen to Offer Commodity-Backed Index Fund in Asia (Update2)
Bloomberg – KBC Financial Products HK Ltd., a unit of Belgium’s biggest banking group KBC Groep NV, began marketing a commodities fund to individual investors in Hong Kong on Jan. 15, and also said investors should buy commodities now after the price falls
Stage 17 – Wednesday, July 20: Pau – Revel, 239.5 km
Cycling News – that, with the third successful breakaway in as many days and the maillot jaune flying into Revel in a 10-man group right, making the first split with 40k to go and comfortably bridging up to Frenchman S bastian Hinault (Credit Agricole