Hedge funds as they exist today perform a very specific and very necessary role in the global financial marketplace: their managers utilize trading techniques often not available to managers of different investment vehicles that target temporary inefficiencies and dislocations in the market, effectively helping to minimize or eliminate those dislocations....
Will the current market hardening lead to a major dislocation and withdrawal of reinsurance capacity? Will there be a return to the hard market of the 1980s, when coverage in some lines was next to impossible to buy, at any price? Opinions among unde Will the...
A powerful supercomputer acting as a virtual microscope has reportedly enabled researchers from IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, Calif., and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, Calif., to simulate the behavior of material microst A powerful supercomputer acting as a virtual microscope has reportedly enabled...
The accuracy of a model that provides scientists with the capability of predicting certain aspects of the deformation behavior of metals has been improved at the Air Force Research Laboratory Office of Scientific Research, Arlington, Va. The Aeros The accuracy of a model...
Pinching pennies will produce less discernible results, if work from Johns Hopkins University should make its way into production. Engineers at the institution applied extreme cold and mechanical manipulation, followed by a carefully measured heat tr Pinching pennies will produce less discernible results, if work ...
The head of Australia's largest bank says he can't guarantee interest rates won't rise again, despite Tuesday's first cut in seven years.Further dislocation in international finance markets could flow through to local borrowers, Commonwealth Bank of Australia CBA chief executive Ralph Norris warned.But he did say there was "a...
Both legs were broken, his feet dislocated, and in the seats next to him the bodies of his friends. As Bountiful resident Dan Liljenquist came to after briefly being knocked out, he realized the front of the plane that he and 13 others were in -- which...
Refiners struggle with demand dislocation between developed and developing world, biofuels, and the emergence of ultra-efficient vehicles NEW YORK -- The refining industry is grappling with shifting scenarios for tomorrow's energy landscape--including one case in which the United States could become a net exporter of gasoline by 2010,...
Pioneer of X-ray diffraction physics DISTINGUISHED FOR his pioneering studies in X-ray diffraction physics, especially for his development of the technique of X-ray topography, Andrew Lang will be greatly missed by many researchers for his detailed knowledge of crystal physics. Crystals are regular...
Cycling Remember the spark snowboard cross put into the Winter Games in Turin? Maybe bicycle motorcross -- BMX, to those in the know -- will do the same. American racers Mike Day and Kyle Bennett gave the crowd a great introduction to the...
BMX cycling arrived in the Olympics to the sound of AC-DC's "Thunderstruck," and crowds cheering and gasping at the jumps and crashes. Advancing in the men's race were Mike Day, Donny Robinson and Kyle Bennett, who dislocated his left shoulder after a nasty wreck in his final heat but finished...
LONDON AFP — Saracens centre Andy Farrell confirmed Wednesday he will miss at least the first month of the Premiership season after suffering a fracture and dislocation of his thumb. Farrell suffered the injury during Friday's pre-season friendly against Western Force, and will be out for the next...
NEW YORK AFP — New Yorkers talked of a miracle Friday after a 12-year-old girl survived a 15-story chimney plunge. The girl had been playing on the roof area of her 13-story apartment building, an artists' colony in Manhattan's trendy West Village neighborhood, when she decided to climb...
BETHLEHEM, Pa. - The Eagles suffered their first extended loss of a player, second-year defensive end Victor Abiamiri. A second-round draft pick out of Notre Dame in 2007, Abiamiri had surgery yesterday on his dislocated right wrist and is expected to miss all of training camp and possibly the start...
Eagles Notes BETHLEHEM, Pa. - Few Eagles are as anxious to show their worth at training camp than Victor Abiamiri and DeSean Jackson. But Abiamiri, a second-year defensive end, has been sidelined with a dislocated bone in his right wrist. He suffered the injury during Sunday morning's practice. Abiamiri met...
WILFRID BOUMA lies writhing in agony, his season over after sustaining a dislocated ankle yesterday. The Dutch defender was hurt after just 11 minutes of Aston Villa's 1-0 Intertoto Cup victory over Odense. Aston Villa players turned away in horror as Bouma,...
INTERTOTO CUP Aston Villa eased into the Uefa Cup's final qualifying round at Villa Park yesterday, a day of mixed fortunes on which they signed the goalkeeper Brad Friedel from Blackburn but lost the defender Wilfred Bouma with a dislocated right ankle. The...
WILFRID Bouma's career may have been saved by the rapid action of Aston Villa's medical staff. The 30-year-old Dutchman suffered an horrific 11th-minute injury in Villa's 1-0 Intertoto Cup victory over Odense. Players turned away in horror as Bouma fell awkwardly and...
The Carlton Group's Chairman Howard L. Michaels announced that Carlton Strategic Ventures, LLC, the principal transaction group of Carlton, has formed a new joint venture with a major insurance company to acquire performing discounted loans and originate and provide "low cost" mezzanine and preferred equity loans on a principal basis....
Capital Trust, Inc. today announced the final closing of CT Opportunity Partners I, LP, a private fund with total equity commitments of $540 million. Capital Trust has committed to invest $25 million, with the remaining equity coming from third party investors. The fund will seek to exploit immediate...
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