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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, ...

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Features : Exchange-Traded Derivatives Prove Their Worth

EXCHANGE-TRADED DERIVATIVES PROVE THEIR WORTH As product offerings grow and pricing improves, exchange-traded derivatives are increasingly appealing to both corporate and institutional buyers of derivatives contracts. By DENISE BEDELL Of the lessons learned by companies during the ...

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Features : Future Imperfect

Swooning equity markets have added to the troubles facing many corporate pension plans and will only accelerate the move to defined contribution plans. By Anita Hawser For some time now observers have been warning of a looming pension crisis ...

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Features: Cash Is King Again

The credit crunch made life more difficult for corporate treasurers in many waysnot least in managing their relationships with their...