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DRs: Sovereign Funds Boost Glencore

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: GLOBAL EQUITY/DRS By Gordon Platt Switzerland-based Glencore International, a commodities trading and mining company, could have timed its initial public offering better. Amid the steepest decline in commodity markets in years, Glencore was looking ...

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Fast Favorites

SPOTLIGHT: FOREIGN EXCHANGE TRADING By Anita Hawser Technology is enabling faster and more-flexible trading in foreign exchange—and helping drive the rapid rise in daily trading volume. Erik Lehtis, president of Chicago-based Dynamic FX Consulting, has experienced firsthand ...

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FX: Big Overseas Investments For China

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: FOREIGN EXCHANGE By Gordon Platt China is planning major investments in foreign companies, including those in the US, in order to help turn its mountain of paper dollars and other currencies into hard assets and ...

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M&A: Tech Mergers Show Smart Increase

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS By Gordon Platt An expanding global economy with a healthy appetite for smart technology and mobile devices is spawning a wave of mergers and acquisitions in the technology sector. Microsoft’s $8.5 ...

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WORLD’S BEST SUPPLY CHAIN FINANCE PROVIDERS 2011

Global Finance names the World’s Best Supply Chain Finance Providers 2011 NEW YORK, May 17, 2011 Global Finance magazine has...

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Debt: High-Yield Issues Break Record

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS:CORPORATE DEBT By Gordon Platt High-Yield Debt Issues Break Record Source: KDP Investment Advisors Corporations worldwide issued more high-yield debt in the first quarter of this year than in any opening quarter since records began ...

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DRs: China, Russia Lead Capital Raising

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: GLOBAL EQUITY/DRS By Gordon Platt China And Russia To Lead Capital Raising Using Depositary Receipts Companies based in Russia and China are extremely interested in listing overseas and probably will be the biggest issuers ...

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FX: USD Weakens As Eurozone Rates Rise

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWSFOREIGN EXCHANGE By Gordon Platt Dollar Weakens As Eurozone Rates Are First To Rise Differing monetary policy reactions to the rise in oil prices are driving currency values at the moment, while gains in ...

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M&A: Deals Accelerated in First Quarter

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS By Gordon Platt Mergers and acquisitions rebounded in 2010, and the momentum appears to be carrying over into this year. The first three months of 2011 constituted the strongest quarter for ...

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Ceremony: TCM Awards

TREASURY & CASH MANAGEMENT: AWARD CEREMONY Treasury Trove On Tuesday, April 12, 2011, at the Harvard Club of New York City, Global Finance held its annual awards ceremony honoring the World’s Best Treasury and Cash Management Providers 2011. ...

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Take Cover

INSURANCE: POLITICAL RISK COVER By Anita Hawser Recent events in the Middle East and North Africa have brought political risk into sharp focus for multinationals in the region and beyond. It was the morning after the Japanese ...

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Debt: Investors Fear Inflation

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: CORPORATE DEBT By Gordon Platt The European Central Bank sent a shockwave through global fixed-income markets last month with its “strong vigilance” alert, signaling that it was about to raise interest rates to ensure that ...