Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
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...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
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Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
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...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Corporate Finance : Credit Spreads Forecast To Remain Tight in 2004
THE AMERICAS A favorable confluence of economic factors is expected to keep credit spreads tight in 2004, analysts say. Corporate...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Corporate Finance : Dollar Declines Sharply, But Has Further to Fall
THE AMERICAS Despite expectations of strong US economic growth throughout 2004, analysts are nearly uniformly bearish on the dollar, which...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Corporate Finance : El Paso Sells GulfTerra Stake To Lessen Hefty Debt Load
THE AMERICAS Houston-based El Paso, the leading provider of natural gas services in the US, agreed to sell its controlling...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Corporate Finance : Improving Global Economy Draws US Investors Offshore
THE AMERICAS Improving global growth prospects and a sinking dollar are enticing US investors to ship more of their investment...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Corporate Finance : Business Investment Boosts Debt Issuance
THE AMERICAS US corporate bond issuance is getting a lift from increasing business investment, as well as improving credit quality,...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Corporate Finance : Dollar’s Rout Continues As Buyers Go on Strike
THE AMERICAS The US dollar gets no respect in the foreign exchange market these days, as traders hang around and...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Corporate Finance : St. Paul, Travelers to Merge In $16 Billion Stock Deal
THE AMERICAS St. Paul Companies and Travelers Property Casualty definitively agreed to merge in a $16.1 billion stock-swap transaction that...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Corporate Finance : US Accounting Rules Trip Up Foreign Issuers
THE AMERICAS In the past two years, foreign issuers of securities have agreed to pay a total of about $700...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Corporate Finance : Bank of America Becomes Second-Biggest US Bank
Bank of America and FleetBoston Financial agreed to merge in a $47 billion stock-swap deal that will create the second-...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Corporate Finance : Companies Lock in Rates As US Economy Surges
THE AMERICAS US corporations are prepaying outstanding bonds and locking in current low interest rates amid signs of strength in...