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Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance : High-yield Market Closes For Repricing

Corporate debt / corporate financing news The high-yield bond market in the United States all but shut down for new issues in July, as subprime mortgage losses led to a repricing of corporate credit risk and an end ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance : M&a Activity To Stay Hot In Some Sectors

Mergers & acquisitions / corporate financing news Global announced mergers and acquisitions totaled $550 billion in July, more than double the total for the same month a year earlier, according to Dealogic, but tighter credit conditions threaten to ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : Chinese company lists in tokyo

Company to watch: china boqi environmental solutions technology / china Based in Beijing, one of the world’s most polluted cities, China Boqi Environmental Solutions Technology has plenty of work to do. “Environmental protection is a big task as ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : Investors shift into safety first mode

News Institutional investors are showing a marked preference for developed market equities over emerging market shares as they rein in risk in their portfolios in response to recent market volatility, according to a research report by State Street ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : Us exchanges maintain lead in dr trading

Dr news American and global depositary receipt trading was easily at an all-time high in the first half of 2007 and was higher than every full-year total since 2006, according to The Bank of New York Mellon. The ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Features : Horror Story With A Happy Ending

MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT FINANCE The recent downturn in the credit cycle has hit media industry restructuring, but Hollywood is attracting investors for new film financing deals. The boom in leveraged buyouts in the media industry hit a brick ...

Banking

Milestones : Qatar Tightens Financial Regulation

QATAR The only way is up: QFC moves to new, gleaming headquarters. Rich in natural gas, the Gulf nation of Qatar has one of the fastest-growing economies in the world, with increasing demand for financial products and ...

Banking

Milestones : Shariah Japan 100 Index Forms Basis Of Islamic ETF

JAPAN Toyota: Top holding in new ETF. Tokyo-based Daiwa Asset Management will create an exchange-traded fund based on the newly formed FTSE Shariah Japan 100 index. The ETF, which will be listed on the Singapore Exchange in ...

News

Newsmakers : ‘Helicopter Ben’ Refuses To Panic

United states Bernanke under pressure as he fends off calls for a rate cut. Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke didn’t exactly call out the helicopters and dump bundles of money on Wall Street last month to keep the ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance : Chinas Solar-energy Ipos Getting Bigger

Global equity/drs China-based manufacturers of products that convert the sun’s rays to electricity are raising growing sums of money on Wall Street to expand their production facilities to meet expanding demand for alternative energy in the face of ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance : Dollar Regains Footing As Fed Gets Vigilant

Foreign exchange Prospects for a Federal Reserve interest rate cut later this year have given way to worries that the Fed’s tightening cycle may not be over. With the outlook for monetary policy playing a large part in ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance : Emerging Market Companies And Banks Pose Risks To Financial System With Global Borrowing Spree

Corporate financing news / corporate debt Corporations based in emerging market countries have increased their global borrowing substantially in recent years, putting themselves at risk to a sudden shift in investor sentiment and a turn in the global ...