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Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance : 3DM Worldwide Issues ADRs Instead of Listing on Nasdaq

EUROPE UK-based 3DM Worldwide, which develops patents for the plastics industry and manages businesses in the Kyrgyz Republic, issued American...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance : Dollar Appears Vulnerable To Weak US Economy

THE AMERICAS While war news out of Iraq was the main determinant of currency movements in April, the US dollar...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance : High-Yield Funds Attracting Investors

THE AMERICAS Mutual funds that invest in high-yield bonds returned 5.4% on average in the first quarter of 2003, continuing...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance : Spain’s Biggest Gas Company Seeks Largest Electric Utility

EUROPE Gas Natural, Spains biggest gas distributor, made a hostile bid for the countrys largest electric utility, Iberdrola, but the...

News

Features : Banks Begin Restoring Trade-Credit Lines as Brazil’s Exports Surge

A volatile economy shows a bit of pace as exports grow and politics remains calm. International banks are gradually reopening...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance : Foreign Exchange

THE AMERICAS Canadian Dollar Turns Suddenly Popular Rising interest rates, solid economic growth, a big trade surplus and strong commodity...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance : High-Yield Issuance Meets Strong Demand

THE AMERICAS A surge in new issuance of high-yield bonds in the US market is being met by strong demand....

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance : Long-Delayed Telkom IPO Finally Makes It to Market

SOUTH AFRICA Telkom, South Africas state-controlled telephone and wireless operator, listed its shares on the Johannesburg and New York stock...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance : Mergers & Acquisitions

THE AMERICAS Devon Energy Moves Into Deeper Water Oklahoma City, Okla-homa-based Devon Energy agreed to merge with Ocean Energy of...

Banking

Features : World’s Best Treasury and Cash Management Providers

Global Finance selects the worlds best. The real-time global settlement process took a major leap forward in September 2002, when...

News

Milestones : Accounting Board Puts Options Expensing On Front Burner

UNITED STATES Mandatory expensingusing flawed valuation modelswill lead to inaccurate and misleading information for investors. Ken Wasch, SIIA The norwalk,...

News

Newsmakers : Oxley Back In The News

UNITED STATES No one can accuse Representative Michael Oxley, the Ohio Republican of Sarbanes- Oxley fame, of shunning the media...