MUMBAI AFP — US-based billionaire investor George Soros has bought a 100 million dollar stake in films-to-mobile Indian media company Reliance Entertainment owned by tycoon Anil Ambani, an official said Friday. "A fund owned by George Soros has picked up a three percent stake in Reliance Entertainment for 100...
George Soros knows financial markets -- it's how he got to be a billionaire. So when he starts pointing out fundamental flaws in today's markets and calls for reform, he's doing it from within the machine. Soros has a new book out, "The New Paradigm for Financial...
George Soros Puts the Bite on MarketsSoros' Sinister SavvyConsidering Soros' financial activities have nearly brought down the economy of whole countries, I'm not sure I'd want him tinkering with regulations.savvyPerhaps. But what is interesting is to see someone who runs a hedge fund say the hedge fund business should...
WASHINGTON, Sept. 23 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The National Legal and Policy Center NLPC today criticized the Open Society Institute OSI, a private foundation funded and controlled by billionaire George Soros, for reportedly threatening to sue the United States Agency for International Development USAID. According to today's Wall Street Journal, OSI...
Republicans in Congress threatened Major League Baseball on Monday with repeal of its antitrust exemption if billionaire financier George Soros is involved in buying the Washington Nationals. Soros, who contributed more than $20 million to groups in an attempt to unseat President Bush last year, recently joined an ownership...
Warren Buffett and George Soros might be two of Americas most famous and successful investors, but Soros seems the less covered in business circles, which is odd, because I find him infinitely complex and interesting though my knowledge of him at the moment is still scant. Soros on Soros...
Byline: The Register-Guard Horse adoption handled well As one of the individuals who was recently fortunate enough to adopt one of the 34 neglected horses seized on Sept. 15, I want to strongly commend the efforts of the Lane County Animal Regulation Authority and everyone...
The Bush presidency has not been kind to Ohio, where 230,000 jobs have been lost over the past three years. That's particularly true in the eastern part of the state, where the steel industry is hemorrhaging jobs, and hope. "There's a lot of anger, a lot of...
By Graeme Beaton, Financial Mail on Sunday, London Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Mar. 14--Now if politics makes for strange bedfellows, this year's presidential election is shaping up as the equivalent of random sex. The rich in America historically and overwhelmingly support ...
GEORGE SOROS has donated almost $5bn (pounds 3bn) over the years to help emerging democracies in Eastern Europe recover from the shadow of tyranny. Now he is applying the same principles, and a large chunk of his fortune, to the United States, where he believes the defeat of George Bush...
George Soros, "the man who broke the Bank of England" when he reportedly made US$1 billion in a single day through currency speculation that drove down the value of the pound in 1992, wants to dump George Bush. Soros has personally committed an initial US$10-million to building an anti-Bush...
Aksys, a maker of kidney dialysis systems, has filed a lawsuit against Durus Capital Management, a US hedge fund that claims it inadvertently acquired more than 70% of Aksys stock. The complaint seeks damages resulting from the accumulation of the Aksys' stock last month...
May 21, 2003 (The Courier-Mail - ABIX via COMTEX) Hungarian-born billionaire investor, George Soros, expects the US dollar to suffer further losses against the European and Australian currencies. In an interview with CNBC, Soros said the US dollar would continue to weaken due to...
Byline: William Hutchings Commerzbank Securities made full use of banking relationships to take the central advisory role on Soros Private Equity Partners' [euro]235m ($256m) acquisition of PolymerLatex from Bayer and Degussa.Matthew Roeser, global head of Commerzbank Securities' financial sponsors group, said: "This is...
Business Editors GIVATAYIM, Israel--BUSINESS WIRE--Jan. 11, 2000 NEXUS TELOCATION SYSTEMS LTD. (NASDAQ: NXUSF) and BVR TECHNOLOGIES LTD. (NASDAQ: BVRT) today announce that on January 10, 2000, Nexus closed on a $15 million first trench of a total $25 million private placement in the Nexus group by a consortium...
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Feb. 4 -- When South Korean President Kim Dae-jung needed to talk up his country's ailing economy last year, he had himself photographed talking to the likes of financier George Soros and Goldman Sachs chairman Jon Corzine. Even the President's...
WASHINGTON, Oct. 5 Kyodo Billionaire financier George Soros on Monday criticized Japanese and American politicians for their handling of the global economic crisis that started in Thailand 15 months ago and has since spread to the rest of the world. Soros said banking reform in Japan...
WASHINGTON, Oct. 5 Kyodo Billionaire financier George Soros on Monday criticized Japanese and American politicians for their handling of the global economic crisis that started in Thailand 15 months ago and has since spread to the rest of the world. Soros said banking reform in Japan...
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News OCT. 5--THE STATE MUST CIVILISE FREE-MARKET CAPITALISM: The resounding Social Democrat SPD win in the German elections means that Europe's four leading states have left-of-centre governments. This sea change has profound implications. Suddenly it is no longer hollow to ...
He holds hard landing here could hurt all If the next global financial crisis should strike soon, George Soros says, the United States might be too weak economically to help pull the world back from a recession. ...