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Comment: A survivor’s guide to 2009
The holiday season is traditionally the time to ... It has been a horrible year. Job cuts, ... Yet amid all the carnage, there are perhaps ... 1) The return of simplicity ... For years, investors lived by one, easy-to-understand, rule ... The last five years have seen that rule...
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Highlights of '08: Vital ingredient missing from recovery
Take yeast, flour and water and you can ... Fund managers and economists hope the ingredients for ... Andrew Milligan, head of global strategy at UK ... The markets are well stocked with cheap shares. ... However, the outlook for company earnings is not ... Financial News surveys the worst bear markets of...
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What crisis? Analyst says fears are being overplayed
A new report from market research firm Celent ... Celent argues that it has found “irreconcilable differences” ... For instance, when Ben Bernanke, chairman of the ... Marenzi said: “It is evident that commercial lending ... He cited as further evidence a study published...
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The strong will survive the hedge fund crisis
With the credit crisis ravaging the investment banking ... Returns were down by 23% in the 10 ... While the headline figures look damning from the ... Second, the total number of hedge funds in ... Furthermore, participants say many redemptions this year have ... There is no doubt some changes will have...
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FSA proposes two-tier system for London listings
The Financial Services Authority has proposed the creation ... Under the proposals, UK listings would be clearly ... There were concerns that secondary or global depositary ... Sally Dewar, FSA managing director of wholesale and ... Premium listings will have to meet the UK’s...
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Securitisation chief departs UBS
The head of securitised products at UBS is ... Ramesh Singh, global head of real estate and ... Responsibility for running the division will now be ... Bill Chandler, has been appointed as head of ... Jim Reichek will continue to be US head ... Jack McCleary has been appointed as head of...
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UK stockbroker hires a dozen to defy downturn
Oriel Securities, the UK stockbroker founded in the ... Lexa Hunt joins the company as finance chief ... Oriel has also made 11 hires in its ... There were also seven analyst hires in the ... Hector Forsythe has joined from Evolution Securities and ... Morten Singleton will focus on technology media and...
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Property developer launches rights issue for expansion
French property group Klepierre has become the latest ... Klepierre announced today that it will raise €356m ... The capital will be used to finance its ... The issuance is fully underwritten by its main ... This follows the news that UK energy company ... Daniel Stillit, a special situations analyst at UBS,...
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A recipe for salvation?
Few people have thought more deeply about the ... Soros argues that each US bank should work ... Likewise, the UK government has told banks in ... Soros preferred the issuance of preference share capital, ... The UK initiative, which has more teeth than ... Governments have no choice but to act in...
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Russia falls as 'darling' of emerging market investors
Russian assets have dramatically turned from being the ... Commerzbank analysts wrote in the report entitled, Russia ... The escalation of the credit crunch in the ... Michael Ganske, Commerzbank analyst, said Russia is trying ... But unlike the US, where there has been ... “We are clearly in a distressed market...
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Wachovia analyst predicts revenue decline for Merrill wealth unit
Douglas Sipkin, an analyst with Wachovia Capital Markets, ... Sipkin said that the Wall Street bank’s global...
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Russian IPO slump worsens
The slump in Russia's equity capital markets deepened ... So far this year, there have been only ... The scale of the market setback has been ... The situation was worse than for Europe in ... The only Russian float in the third quarter ... The news that the US Senate had approved...
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Russian equity collapse causes market suspension
Russia's two main stock exchanges were was forced ... The RTS Index closed an hour early yesterday ... Russia's other exchange also suspended trading after the ... The steep fall in RTS follows the already ... While the collapse of the US bank on ... RTS's falls this past week has followed previous...
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Europeans in the firing line as Fed bails out AIG
European banks could face billions of dollars in ... According to one analyst close to the situation, ... One source at a European financial institution said: ... AIG said in the filings that the trades ... AIG had over $30bn of imminent financial liabilities, ... In a statement AIG said it had recently...
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RBC sells UK housing sector bond
Canadian bank RBC Capital Markets has sold a ... The £250m (€313m) fixed-rate, secured bond – reportedly ... RBC said the deal is the first major ... Institutional investors have largely shunned bonds backed by ... However, there appears to be investor demand for ... He added: “The orderbook for this deal is...
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Noble launches Indian mid-cap research
Boutique investment bank Noble Group will for the ... Noble outlined its intentions to develop its coverage ... Noble, which has 24 analysts based in Mumbai, ... Over the past four or five years, foreign ... He added that foreign investment has been limited ... "The lack of information about Indian mid-sized companies...
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Aftermarket performance of IPOs slumps to three-year low
The performance of new shares issued via European ... New listings in the second quarter performed the ... The average return after one day of trading ... Returns after one month of trading were not ... This is based on 33 deals so far ... The performance has been so bad it has...
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Macro-economic gloom dampens investor spirits
European investors have become more pessimistic about the ... According to the State Street Investor Confidence Index, ... The global index, which has swung erratically this ... The index, which was created by State Street ... The fall in the index comes in the ... Andrew Capon, vice president at State Street, said...
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FSA plans clampdown despite no evidence of HBOS manipulation
The UK's Financial Services Authority said today it ... On the afternoon of March 19, the FSA ... These rumours focused on a British bank that ... Market commentators speculated that the fall in HBOS's ... The FSA said today that its investigation of ... The regulator said that the rumours were circulated...
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Sants defends FSA staff from 'out of touch' accusations
The chief executive of the UK’s Financial Services ... Chief executive Hector Sants said, in his opening ... He added that the market should be in ... “I have already said that the standard of ... Sants said that the FSA has already made ... However, Sants defended criticism surrounding the quality of...
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