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Features: The Lure Of Foreign Shares
Banks have created 1,400 new unsponsored ADR programs to meet-and hopefully generate-growing demand, particularly from investors in separately managed accounts. By Gordon Platt The long drought in initial public offerings has slowed the pace of raising capital ...
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Milestones: Uk Tops Foreign Direct Investment League Table
United Kingdom By Anita Hawser London calling: Investors’ faith in the UK is growing The largest investor in the UK remained the United States, which increased its investment by 30% on 2007-2008 levels. The US accounted for ...
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Newsmakers: Oil Confounds As Prices Rise While Demand Falls
GLOBAL By Gordon Platt Oil prices have doubled since February without any help from fundamental demand. In fact, demand projections have been revised downward due to the global recession. How long can this levitation act continue? "The global ...
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Newsmakers: Recession-weary Investors May Be Jumping The Gun
GLOBAL By Gordon Platt Levy: Economic recovery will not happen soon Voting with their portfolios, investors are viewing the glass as half full, and their risk appetite is increasing. Confidence among global investors rose for the sixth straight ...
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Newsmakers: Stimulus Packages Present Rich Pickings For Fraudsters
GLOBAL By Anita Hawser Abbey: Massive investment leaves door open for fraud With governments around the world doling out billions in stimulus packages or infrastructure projects to help revive flagging economies in the wake of the subprime crisis, ...
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Corporate Finance: Big Emerging Market Mergers Create World-scale Competitors
Mergers & Acquisitions BY GORDON PLATT Two of Brazil's biggest food companies, Perdigão and Sadia, plan to merge in a stock-swap transaction that will create a multinational food company with annual sales of $10.6 billion. The new company, ...
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Corporate Finance: Dollar Bulls Hope Fed Aces Policy Transition
Foreign Exchange BY GORDON PLATT Signs that the US economy is bottoming out and hopes that the Federal Reserve will deftly handle the transition to a less accommodative monetary policy are boosting the dollar, analysts say. They say ...
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Corporate Finance: High-yield Issuance Hits 30-month Peak
Corporate Debt BY GORDON PLATT Companies rushing to refinance bank loans borrowed more than $24 billion in the high-yield debt market in the United States in May, the most since November 2006, according to Montpelier, Vermont-based KDP Investment ...
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Cover Story: The Power Of Hope
President Obama's determination to do "whatever it takes" to rebuild the economy appears to be paying off. But it is his actions across the whole range of policy initiatives that will have the greatest impact on global corporations. By ...
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Features: Insurance Insecurity
In the wake of the near-collapse of AIG, many companies are taking a much closer look at the health of their own insurers. By Paula L.Green Corporate risk officers are asking more questions, checking more documents, diversifying their ...
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Corporate Finance : Global Equity/DRs
ASIA, MIDDLE EAST LEADING IPO THAW BY GORDON PLATT The level of initial public offerings has been at historic lows for nearly a year, but recent large IPOs in Asia and the Middle East have broken the ice, ...