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		<title><![CDATA[Ultra-fast Trading a Risk-Myners]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[LONDON (<a href="http://resources.bnet.com/index.php?source=ReutersUK">Reuters UK</a>) - Speculators using computer-based high frequency trading to buy and sell shares could damage companies, the BBC quoted the financial services ministers as saying.With high-frequency trading, banks, hedge funds and proprietary shops use sophisticated algorithms to earn profit from market imbalances and tiny arbitrage spreads. Critics say...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 01:01:25 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[You're Offshoring. Now what?]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A company's business applications are the energy that powers the entire enterprise. Connecting all of its people, locations, customers and partners, housing its critical data and information, and enabling its essential business transactions and analyses, applications are the driving force behind the business. As one of the biggest line items...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Point: The Path To Success In Application Outsourcing]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Until recently, financial institutions outsourced for one reason: labor arbitrage. As one of the biggest line items in the information technology budget, application development and maintenance has been a central focus for outsourcing. But labor arbitrage provides a temporary and limited competitive benefit. The decision to outsource nowadays should not...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[AbitibiBowater, Inc. Q3 2008 Earnings Call Transcript]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Question-and-Answer SessionOperator  Operator instructions Our first question is from Gail Glazerman from UBS. Please go ahead Gail Glazerman &#8211; UBS  Hi, good morning. Dave Paterson  Hi. Bill Harvey  Good morning. Gail Glazerman &#8211; UBS  Just starting on newsprint pricing, there seems to be a...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 11:53:11 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Constellation Energy: Merger Arbitrage Opportunity]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dobromir Stoyanov submits: One of the four techniques implemented by Benjamin Graham was merger arbitrage. There&#8217;s been some good evidence that this strategy has worked for several decades for some value investors such as Graham and Buffett, producing double digit returns.Buffett had a nice discussion on his arbitrage experience with...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 08:16:44 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[A Way to Play the InBev and Anheuser-Busch Takeover]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Andy Singh submits:The difficulty in closing funding for some recently concluded corporate takeovers has presented an arbitrage profit opportunity for investors willing to take some risk. In particular I refer to the $52 billion mega takeover of U.S. brewer Anheuser-Busch BUD, the company that is famous for Budweiser Beer, by...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[IT Infrastructure Outsourcing Providers' Converging Value Propositions Creating Strategic Dilemma: Everest and Bernstein Webinar July 10]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[DALLAS -- The strategic dilemma facing Infrastructure Outsourcing IO suppliers - caused by the convergence of 'traditional' multinational and offshore suppliers' value propositions, a maturing remote infrastructure management delivery model, and adoption of labor arbitrage by traditional suppliers - will be discussed in a one-hour Webinar hosted by analysts from...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[What determines the level of short-selling activity?]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I test several explanations for the short-sale trading for a sample of the NYSE and the Nasdaq stocks during the 1988-2002 period. I find that short-selling activity is positively related to arbitrage opportunities and hedging demand, and negatively related to previous short-term returns. ANOVA analysis shows that the stock option...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[IRS: AGENCY BROKE TAX LAW ON BONDS]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The IRS has told Colorado Springs Utilities it violated the tax code on $345 million in bonds issued in 1991, which could force the city agency to pay millions of dollars or face other consequences.    If the IRS determination stands, the city-owned enterprise could lose tax-exempt status...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Forgotten Strategy]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[  The Idea in Brief            Multinationals' global operations consistently underperform their domestic operations. Why? These companies' strategies focus mostly on similarities across their markets: whenever possible, global companies standardize their business models to achieve economies of scale. They...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Bear Stearns Introduces The Bear Stearns Risk Arbitrage Cash Deal Index&#151;A New Way to Participate in Risk Arbitrage]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK -- Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc. today announced that it recently launched The Bear Stearns Risk Arbitrage Cash Deal Index (Bloomberg: BSEICASH )--a new way to gain exposure to risk arbitrage deals in the US. The index, created by the Bear Stearns Equity Linked Strategy Team, is composed...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2007 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Crash: private equity falls back to earth.]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Byline: Jennifer Hewett    May 06, 2007 (The Australian - ABIX via COMTEX) -- The Airline  Partners Australia APA consortium has not been able to gain enough  acceptances for its bid for Qantas Airways. The private equity players  led by Bob Mansfield had made an...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 May 2007 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA['We're applying for a refund']]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not many people or businesses pay Uncle Sam more than they have to, but Colorado Springs Utilities has been an overly generous taxpayer.    The utility mistakenly gave the Internal Revenue Service an extra $1.1 million.    The overpayment was discovered during an audit, still under...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Aug 2006 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Index funds take big hits from arbitrage; Greatest amount of pain in portfolios tracking Russell 2000.(News)]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb4798/is_200603/ai_n17422260]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Byline: David Hoffman       NEW YORK - When Amazon .com Inc. was added to the Standard &  Poor's 500 stock index last year, arbitrageurs went to work, and  index fund investors paid the price.       From Nov. 14,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Mar 2006 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[SEC guidance expected on fair-value pricing; Fund directors have sought clarification for some time.(News)]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Byline: David Hoffman     NEW YORK - Expect the Securities and Exchange Commission to issue guidance on fair-value pricing within the next few months, Douglas J. Scheidt, associate director of the investment management division, said at the recent Mutu   Byline: David Hoffman   ...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Feb 2006 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Pricing-to-Market: Price Discrimination or Product Differentiation?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=242886]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[This paper examines the extent to which a false detection of Pricing-To-Market pseudo PTM arises from the use of unit value data. To do so, the authors analyze two scenarios. Both scenarios involve a monopolist located in the home country producing a low- and high-quality variety of a good. In...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2005 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Transforming Your Back Office: Securing a Competitive Advantage With Offshore Business Process Outsourcing]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=147678]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The primary reason financial institutions consider offshoring business processes today is labor arbitrage - getting the job done cheaper by qualified, but less expensive workers in other countries. Significant as it is, however, expense reduction is an embryonic opportunity related to offshore outsourcing. Waiting in the wings are more far-reaching...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Aug 2005 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Converting out.(market condition for hedge funds)]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb3104/is_200508/ai_n17324425]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The June closure of convertible arbitrage hedge fund Marin Capital  Partners, with its nearly $2 billion under management, appears to be  just the tip of the iceberg for the troubled strategy. The Barclay Group  estimates the strategy has lost more than 20% of its assets, to $52.53...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2005 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Capital Gains Taxes, Pricing Spreads and Arbitrage: Evidence From U.S. Cross-Listed Firms]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=242465]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[This paper examines how personal taxes affect the pricing of stocks that are simultaneously listed and traded on multiple exchanges around the globe. Specifically, the paper studies how an unexpected reduction in U.S. capital gains taxes at the announcement of the 1997 budget accord changes the pricing of foreign firms'...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jun 2005 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Parallel Trade, International Exhaustion And Intellectual Property Rights: A Welfare Analysis]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=312742]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[This paper analyses the issue of parallel trade arbitrage for products protected by intellectual property rights. Many countries have traditionally allowed owners of intellectual property rights to prohibit arbitrage in the face of international price discrimination. In a well-known paper Malueg and Schwartz (1994) showed that this policy decreases social...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Apr 2005 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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