Earlier this month ING Bank Slaski SLAS

Last week, Schwab reported a small quarterly profit rise,beating expectations See ID:nN16278152. Schwab's shares wereoff 66 cents, or 4.5 percent, at $14.18 on Tuesday. Toronto-Dominion Bank (TD.TO) is Ameritrade's largestinvestor. (Editing by John Wallace, Maureen Bavdek and Jeffrey Benkoe) Stocks Funds News ETFs News.

OAK BROOK, IL, Jan. 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Primary Energy RecyclingCorporation (TSX:PRI.UN) (the "Company") announced today that a cashdistribution of Cdn$ 0.06667 per enhanced income security ("EIS") of theCompany will be paid on February 27, 2009 to holders of record on January 30,2009.Each EIS consists of one common share (a "Common Share") and a subordinatednote with par value of Cdn$ 2.50 which pays interest at a rate of 11.75 perannum (the "Subordinated Note"). The EISs trade on the Toronto Stock Exchangeunder the symbol PRI.UN. The total distribution of Cdn$ 0.06667 per EISreflects a cash distribution of Cdn$ 0.04219 per Common Share and an interestpayment of Cdn$ 0.02448 per Subordinated Note for the period from January 1 toJanuary 31, 2009.The Company owns a majority interest in Primary Energy Recycling Holdings LLC("Primary Energy"). Primary Energy, headquartered in Oak Brook, Illinois,indirectly owns and operates four recycled energy projects and a 50 interestin a pulverized coal facility (collectively, the "Projects"). The Projectshave a combined electrical generating capacity of 283 megawatts and a combinedsteam generating capacity of 1.8 MMlbs/hour.

Primary Energy creates value forits customers by capturing and recycling waste energy from industrial andelectric generation processes and converting it into reliable and economicalelectricity and thermal energy for its customers' use. For more information,please visit us at Energy Recycling CorporationV. Michael Alverson, Chief Financial Officer, Primary Energy RecyclingCorporation, (630) 371-0639, . Sees pre-tax profit down at least 75 pct Further warnings possible (Adds analyst, details, shares) WARSAW, Jan 20 (Reuters) - Polish BRE Bank BREP.WA warnedon Tuesday its fourth-quarter pre-tax profit would plunge tobelow 50 million zlotys ($15 million) because of higherprovisions, losses on derivatives and higher costs.

BRE, which is controlled by Germany's Commerzbank (CBKG.DE),plans to release full fourth-quarter results on Feb 3. Analysts expect a significant deterioration of Polishbanking earnings in the last three months of last year afterrelatively strong first three quarters, taking a hit from risingloan provisions and losses on investments. "Expectations for the fourthquarter results are already very low - results across the sectorwill be worse both year-on-year and quarter-on-quarter." Earlier this month, ING Bank Slaski SLAS.WA, the Polishunit of Dutch lender ING (ING.AS), warned its 2008 net profitwould fall 24 percent, hit in the last three months of the yearby the valuation of its bond portfolio. The stock rose 1.7 percent to 163.20 zlotys ahead ofthe profit warning, which was issued after share trading closed. Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship Announces Three New $20,000 NASA Earth/Space Engineering Innovation Prizes to the Worlds Largest andRichest Competition.HOUSTON(Business Wire)The Rice Alliance for Technology & Entrepreneurship (Rice Alliance) of RiceUniversity is pleased to announce the addition of three awards of $20,000 eachsponsored by NASA to be presented at the 2009 Rice Business Plan Competition. This awardcontinues that tradition," said Brad Burke, managing director, Rice Alliance forTechnology and Entrepreneurship. "The NASA Earth/Space Engineering Innovation Award will encourage development ofcommercial technologies that can address the technology challenges of spaceflight and increase the awareness of the contributions being made by the NASAJohnson Space Center to the business community, the Houston region, and to theoverall success of the space program," said Jeffrey R Davis, MD, Director,Space Life Sciences.