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Newsmakers : Is Greenspan Heading For His Second Bush Showdown?
UNITED STATES Greenspan promised to be patient. But his patience run out at a bad time for President Bush. Alan...
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Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Corporate Finance : Canada’s Manulife Acquires John Hancock Financial
MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS THE AMERICAS Canadas Manulife Acquires John Hancock Financial The theory that bigger is better in financial services...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Corporate Finance : Deutsche Bank Study Shows ADRs Boost Stock Prices
GLOBAL DEPOSITARY RECEIPTS EUROPE Deutsche Bank Study Shows ADRs Boost Stock Prices German blue-chip companies with American depositary receipt programs...
Banking
Cover Story : The Best Companies In Asia
ANNUAL SURVEY AIRLINES Singapore Airlines CEO: Chew Choon Seng It is a measure of Singapore Airlines strength that it took...
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Features : Total Rebuild: Reconstructing Iraq’s Banking System Starts from Scratch
Before Iraqs economy can even begin to recover from the war, its banking system The ruins in Baghdad of the...
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Milestones : Congress Takes Aim At Corporate Tax Cheats
UNITED STATES Frustrated by an Internal Revenue Service that cannot seem to catch corporate tax evaders and that fails to...
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Milestones : Islamic Bond Market Coming Of Age
QATAR The Middle Eastern nation of Qatar sold the biggest-ever Islamic bond in October, a $700 million, seven-year global offering...
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Milestones : Will Statistical Fog Ground Bank Of England?
UNITED KINGDOM It is worth asking whether the statistical fog enveloping the UK economy foreshadows stormy economic weather. Mervyn King,...
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Newsmakers : Markets Can’t Seem To Catch Snow’s Drift
UNITED STATES US treasury secretary John Snow stumbled into a storm in late October after suggesting to a British newspaper...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Newsmakers : New York Fed’s New Chief May Be The Man To Save The Dollar
UNITED STATES Foreign exchange market participants are relieved to have somebody who understands their market in the second most powerful...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Corporate Finance : Bond Market’s Sell-off May Not Be Over Yet
THE AMERICAS The bond market has fallen so far since Friday the 13th of June, that comparisons are being made...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Corporate Finance : Citigroup Pays $5 Billion For Sears’ Credit Card Unit
THE AMERICAS Citigroup agreed to acquire the credit card and financial products business of Illinois-based Sears, Roebuck for an estimated...