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Corporate Finance : BellSouth Sells Latin American Wireless Units to Telefonica

THE AMERICAS Atlanta-based BellSouth agreed to sell its 10 Latin American cellular operations to Telefonica Mviles, the wireless affiliate of...

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Corporate Finance : Chinese Companies Lead Parade Of Asian Issuers

ASIA Semiconductor Manufacturing International, or SMIC, Chinas biggest memory-chip maker, launched a sponsored American depositary receipt program in conjunction with...

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Corporate Finance : Floating-Rate Issues Becoming Popular

THE AMERICAS When Calpine Generating, a subsidiary of California-based power producer Calpine, came to market in late February with a...

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Corporate Finance : Strong Us Economic Data Give Dollar Some Vitality

THE AMERICAS The outlook for the US dollar brightened considerably following a surge in March non-farm payrolls, retail sales and...

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Corporate Finance : Comcast’s Hostile Offer Puts Disney in Play

THE AMERICAS Comcast, the biggest cable-TV operator in the US, made an unsolicited offer to buy Walt Disney, the American...

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Corporate Finance : Companies With ADRs Gain Research Following

SOUTH AFRICA South African companies that find themselves ignored by analysts in developed countries can get noticed by issuing American...

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Corporate Finance : Dollar Regains Composure, But Little Has Changed

THE AMERICAS The US dollar rebounded sharply in early March, recording its biggest jump in a year against the euro...

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Corporate Finance : Weak US Jobs Data Trigger Bond Rally

THE AMERICAS Bond prices soared and yields slumped in early March, as the US employment data surprised market participants once...

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Corporate Finance : ADRs Returning to Role As Takeover Currency

THE AMERICAS The use of American depositary receipts to pay for foreign takeovers of US companies likely will increase this...

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Corporate Finance : Group of 7’s Warning Fails To Support Dollar

THE AMERICAS In a move that came as a surprise to some analysts, the Group of 7 industrial nations warned...

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Corporate Finance : High-Yield Issuance May Keep Growing

THE AMERICAS While US corporate bondmarket participants expect overall issuance to decline in 2004 as interest rates go up, high-yield...

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Corporate Finance : M&A Premiums Could Rise As Banks Fight for Survival

THE AMERICAS The US banking landscape has changed significantly since last October, when Bank of America agreed to merge with...