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- An Upside to Recession?
- Everyone is talking recession. President Bush is promising tax relief, and it hasn't been a very cheery couple of days for the markets. Two thirds of Americans think we're either already in or on the edge of a recession, and, not surprisingly, consumer spending has slowed. Among all this gloom...
- Blog posts 2008-01-18
- Do High Regulatory Costs Force Public Firms to Go Private?
- The article is about the privatization of the public firms due to high regulatory cost. It explains about the processes that are high in cost. People are moving towards private firms instead of registering for public firms. At a time when tougher corporate-disclosure laws are making life more and more...
- White papers 2003-09-10
- Lowering The Bar
- From the executive summary: ‘Few U.S. companies are chasing the growth achieved in the past few years. While strategic planners are willing to make large, risky technology investments of uncertain benefit, the same is not true of foreign investments, whose risks and rewards are similarly difficult to quantify. U.S. companies...
- White papers 2000-08-01
- Upfront: Waking Up to Global GAAP
- International Financial Reporting Standards IFRS are rapidly gaining momentum worldwide. The paper highlights that U.S. companies need to bone up on international accounting standards if they want to remain competitive abroad and at home. Chief Financial Officers CFOs of U.S. companies must understand global Generally Accepted Accounting Principles GAAP, because...
- White papers 2005-06-01
- Beware of Big U.S. Crackdown on Foreign Bribery
-  It hasn't been getting much attention, but a large-scale government crackdown on foreign bribery and corruption on on against U.S. companies. Over the 18 months ending last June, more than 100 U.S. companies have come forward with evidence of violations of the 1977 Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. Of...
- Blog posts 2009-01-27
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- UTEK Corporation and U.S. Starcom Corporation Announce Strategic Alliance Agreement
- PERTH AMBOY, N.J. & TAMPA, Fla. -- UTEK Corporation (AMEX:UTK) (LSE-AIM:UTK), a specialty finance company focused on technology transfer, and U.S. Starcom Corporation (Pink Sheets:USTA), a leader in providing core and value added prepaid services and solutions to enhance communications, financial transactions and entertainment content, particularly to the Hispanic marketplace,...
- Research articles 2006-06-12
- Barrick Completes Sale of U.S.$750,000,000 in Debt Securities
- TORONTO -- All amounts in United States dollars Barrick Gold Corporation (NYSE:ABX) (TSX:ABX) (LSE:ABX) (BOURSE:ABX) (SWX:ABX) and its wholly owned subsidiary Barrick Gold Finance Company announced today the completion of the sale of U.S.$750,000,000 in debt securities, comprised of: U.S.$200,000,000 of 5.80% notes due 2034 of Barrick Gold Corporation;...
- Research articles 2004-11-12
- S&P Raises U.S. Bancorp Outlook to Positive and Global Finance Lists the Company Among the "Safest" in the World
- MINNEAPOLIS -- Standard and Poor's Ratings Services (S&P) announced on Nov. 1, 2006 that U.S. Bancorp (NYSE:USB) is among six financial holding companies that have been placed on S&P's CreditWatch with positive implications. The news comes as Global Finance lists U.S. Bancorp as the fourth-safest financial holding company in the...
- Research articles 2006-11-06
- Will Foreign Firms Cherry Pick Ailing U.S. Financial Companies?
- With Wall Street in tatters, will foreign banking concerns swoop in and cherry pick the leftovers? There is some evidence that is happening. Japan's huge Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group is picking up 20 percent of Morgan Stanley in a deal valued at $8.5 billion. MUFG will also...
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Chinese Carmaker BYD to Bring EVs to U.S. Next Year
- In a sign of a heightened international competition, the leading Chinese battery maker and increasingly carmaker BYD (“Build Your Dreamsâ€) is intending to bring its E6 electric car to the U.S. a year sooner than previously announced. That will make it available here next year, just in time to compete...
- Blog posts 2009-08-27
- 7 Reasons Why U.S. Finance Chiefs Need to Know About International Financial Reporting Standards
- International Financial Reporting Standards IFRS are the accounting rules all public companies in the European Union must follow, with another 100 countries either implementing or considering them. So why should this concern a U.S. company? This paper overviews seven good reasons. The Financial Accounting Standards Board in the U.S. FASB...
- White papers 2005-10-01
- U.S. Bancorp Piper Jaffray Initiates Coverage of GATX Corporation with a Buy Rating and a $38 Price Target
- Business Editors MINNEAPOLIS--BUSINESS WIRE--Feb. 11, 2000 U.S. Bancorp Piper Jaffray Senior Analyst Michael Grondahl initiated coverage today of GATX Corporation (GMT-$30 1/16, a) with a Buy rating and a 12-month price target of $38, based on a multiple of 10 times our fiscal 2001 EPS estimate of $3.85....
- Research articles 2000-02-11
- U.S. Shipping Partners' Joint Venture for Product Tanker Construction Provides Update on Operations
- USS Products Investor LLC (the "Joint Venture"), a joint venture formed and financed by affiliates of The Blackstone Group, other investors and U.S. Shipping Partners L.P. (NYSE: USS) to finance the construction of five 49,000 deadweight ton double-hulled product tankers by National Steel and Shipbuilding Company ("NASSCO"), confirmed today that...
- Research articles 2008-05-15
- U.S. Puts Up $6 Billion to Support Auto Lender GMAC
- By Mark Felsenthal WASHINGTON (Reuters UK) - The Bush administration on Monday expanded its bailout of the U.S. auto industry, saying it was buying $5 billion (3.4 billion pounds) in equity in auto and mortgage finance company GMAC and increasing a loan to General Motors GM by $1 billion. The...
- News items 2009-08-07
- Fitch: Outlook Stable for U.S. Commercial Finance & Leasing Sector; Subsector Outlooks Initiated
- NEW YORK -- The overall Rating Outlook for the U.S. commercial finance and leasing company industry is Stable, according to Fitch Ratings. Fitch has also initiated individual Rating Outlooks to several industry subsectors ranging from Positive to Stable in response to changes in the landscape of the commercial finance and...
- Research articles 2004-12-28
- Assured Guaranty Corp.'s December 2008 U.S. Public Finance New Issue Volume Up 137% Over Prior Year Period
- 2008 is Record Year for Assured's U.S. Public Finance Group NEW YORK -- Assured Guaranty Corp. ("Assured" or the "Company"), the principal direct financial guaranty subsidiary of Assured Guaranty Ltd. (NYSE:AGO), announced today the Company's U.S. public finance new issue volume for December 2008. During December 2008, Assured provided...
- Research articles 2009-01-12
- GMAC gets $5-billion in U.S. bailout funds
- WASHINGTON — ? The U.S. Treasury Department said that it will provide $5-billion (U.S.) to GMAC Financial Services LLC, the ailing financing arm of General Motors Corp., in a move expected to stave off a bankruptcy protection filing at the company but also severely limit GM's control over it. In...
- News items 2009-08-07
- GE Commercial Finance, Franchise Finance bought $203 million in assets from Orlando-based Trustreet Properties.(Brief Article)
- GE Commercial Finance, Franchise Finance bought $203 million in assets from Orlando-based Trustreet Properties, a restaurant real estate and financial services company formed from ... GE Commercial Finance, Franchise Finance bought $203 million in assets from Orlando-based Trustreet Properties, a restaurant real estate and financial...
- Research articles 2005-11-01
- Barrick Announces Sale of U.S.$750,000,000 in Debt Securities
- TORONTO -- All amounts in United States dollars Barrick Gold Corporation (TSX:ABX) (NYSE:ABX) (LSE:ABX) (PARIS:ABX) (SWISS:ABX) and its wholly owned subsidiary Barrick Gold Finance Company announced today that they have entered into an underwriting agreement to issue U.S.$750,000,000 in debt securities comprised of: U.S.$200,000,000 of 5.80% notes due 2034...
- Research articles 2004-11-08
- U.S. Home Systems Reports That Management of Its Consumer Finance Subsidiary Has Expressed an Interest in Acquiring Finance Unit
- DALLAS -- U.S. Home Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: USHS) today announced that it has received an unsolicited and non-binding letter of interest from management of First Consumer Credit, Inc., its consumer finance subsidiary, to acquire the finance business. Among other items, completion of the transaction is subject to securing financing for...
- Research articles 2007-05-14
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