1.   PUPILS at a Birkenhead primary school have been busy raising cash for starving children.

2.   Even many established companies are having a hard time raising cash.

3.   Stocks fell this morning because local institutions were raising cash for dividend payments, said Avinash Wadhwani, vice president, equity sales at S.S. Katilal Ishwarlal Securities Pvt.

4.   That plan will slash dividend payments while raising cash by selling tracking stock tied to its old-fashioned utility business back in Michigan.

5.   The company was also busy raising cash in the stock market Thursday.