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Sunday, January 23, 2011. Chinese Corporate Bond Sales Have Busiest Start on Record. Chinese companies raised four times more from bonds than from equities this year in a record start for the debt market as government efforts to curb inflation curbed access to loans and the stock market. Debt sales have been led this year by companies such as China National Petroleum Corp., the country’s biggest oil and gas producer, which has issued 30 billion yuan of notes through four sales, and Beijing-base...Chinese...
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Information about Economic: Bank Valuations Stuck at 2009 Lows Showing No Crisis Recovery
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Sunday, January 23, 2011. Bank Valuations Stuck at 2009 Lows Showing No Crisis Recovery. Valuations for U.S. financial stocks have fallen so far, it’s like the rebound from the worst crisis since the 1930s never happened. The biggest yearly increase in U.S. retail sales since 1999 and higher-than-estimated industrial production show the U.S. expansion is gaining momentum. The Commerce Department may say Jan. 28 that gross domestic product rose at an annual rate of 3.5 percent ...Investors will get more i...
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Information about Economic: Asian Stocks Advance on Faster U.S. Jobs Growth, Weaker Yen
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Sunday, April 03, 2011. Asian Stocks Advance on Faster U.S. Jobs Growth, Weaker Yen. Asian stocks rose, driving the regional benchmark index to a three-week high, after a report showing U.S. jobs grew faster than forecast and a weakening yen boosted optimism in an economic recovery. Futures on the Standard and Poor’s 500 Index were little changed today. The index rose 0.5 percent on April 1, adding to gains from the market’s biggest first-quarter rally since 1998, as faster-than-forec...A US government j...
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Information about Economic: Deutsche Boerse-NYSE Takeover Turning Table on Shareholder Value: Real M&A
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Sunday, April 03, 2011. Deutsche Boerse-NYSE Takeover Turning Table on Shareholder Value: Real M&A. Duncan Niederauer’s wish for NYSE Euronext (NYX)’s takeover by Deutsche Boerse AG (DB1) to be a merger of equals may be coming true - at the expense of shareholders in the Frankfurt-based exchange. 8216;The Right Thing’. NYSE Euronext is studying the Nasdaq OMX-ICE bid, according to a letter from Niederauer, 51, to employees contained in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission last week. Frank...
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Information about Economic: Foreign Banks Tapped Fed’s Secret Lifeline Most at Crisis Peak
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Friday, April 01, 2011. Foreign Banks Tapped Fed’s Secret Lifeline Most at Crisis Peak. US Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke’s two-year fight to shield crisis-squeezed banks from the stigma of revealing their public loans protected a lender to local governments in Belgium, a Japanese fishing-cooperative financier and a company part-owned by the Central Bank of Libya. 8220;The caricature of the Fed is that it was shoveling money to big New York banks and a bunch of foreigners, and that is not condu...
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Information about Economic: Euro's Slide Meets Resistance as Analysts Draw Line at $1.30
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Sunday, January 23, 2011. Euro's Slide Meets Resistance as Analysts Draw Line at $1.30. Traders are starting to believe German Chancellor Angela Merkel when she says Europe’s biggest economy will do whatever it takes to save the region’s currency. 8220;Euro-zone policy makers are finally moving ahead of the curve,” said Thomas Stolper, a global markets economist at Goldman Sachs Group Inc. in London. “We are near a breaking point in terms of the pressure. It’s getting more d...For all the focus on Europe...
