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Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance : China Unleashes Ipos To Soak Up Liquidity

GLOBAL EQUITY/DRS China has approved a series of major IPOs in recent weeks in an attempt to cool its soaring stock markets by flooding them with a growing supply of new issues. The country’s main Shanghai index has ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance : European Energy Deals Keeping Investment Bankers Busy Despite Slump In Leveraged Buyouts

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS Energy companies are fueling a merger boom in Europe, as the industry continues to restructure in response to liberalized markets and foreign competition. Investment bankers are welcoming the advisory fees from these huge deals at ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance : Us High-yield Market Coming Back To Life

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS / CORPORATE DEBT The high-yield bond market in the United States has revived, thanks in part to the Federal Reserve’s half-point interest rate cut on September 18, with some companies able to double the size ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance : Weak Dollar Unlikely To Reach Crisis Stage

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS / FOREIGN EXCHANGE The dollar tumbled to a record low against a basket of leading currencies known as the dollar index at the end of September and likely will fall further, but no dollar crisis ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : Pension Funds Like Local-Currency Debt

NEWS California’s San Bernardino County’s employees’ retirement plan awarded a $125 million mandate in October to London-based Ashmore Investment Management for investment in emerging market local-currency debt. “All our central bank clients and the majority of our pension ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : Study Says Dr Programs Boost Share Prices Of EM

DR NEWS Companies based in emerging market countries enjoy higher domestic share prices and improved home-market liquidity one year after opening a DR program, according to a study released in October by UK-based Oxford Metrica, an independent research firm. ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : Warren Buffett Bangs The Gong

COMPANY TO WATCH: PETRO CHINA/CHINA Warren Buffett, the Oracle of Omaha, who is one of America’s most successful investors, could be sending a message about China’s red-hot stock market by cashing in most of his chips in PetroChina, ...

Banking

Features : Shariah-Compliant Corporate Finance Forges Ahead

ISLAMIC INVESTMENT BANKING Investor demand, banks’ creativity and deep pools of liquidity in the Middle East are driving strong growth in the development of Islamic investment banking products. Hassoune:“Investors and entrepreneurs must hare the risks and rewards of ...

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Author: Gordon Platt

Corporate Finance : China Unleashes Ipos To Soak Up Liquidity

Corporate Finance : European Energy Deals Keeping Investment Bankers Busy Despite Slump In Leveraged Buyouts

Corporate Finance : Us High-yield Market Coming Back To Life

Corporate Finance : Weak Dollar Unlikely To Reach Crisis Stage

Emerging Markets : Pension Funds Like Local-Currency Debt

Emerging Markets : Study Says Dr Programs Boost Share Prices Of EM

Emerging Markets : Warren Buffett Bangs The Gong

Features : Shariah-Compliant Corporate Finance Forges Ahead

Milestones : $100 Billion Bank Fund Buys Time For Treasury

Newsmakers : US Shouldn’t Take Its Aaa Rating For Granted

Corporate Finance : As Global Markets Stabilize, Analysts Say Dollar Could Lose Appeal As Safe-haven Currency

Corporate Finance : China, Russia Compete For Biggest Ipo Of Year