Year-End Reckoning: China's Yuan Rises, But So What?Year of ReckoningHolstein is dead on on his short assessment. The Chinese can do to us to a larger degree than what the Japanese did in the 60's and 70's. heir economy is decades from being mature and they are learning...
Economic turmoil and record prices have lured a new generation of prospectors to the Californian hills where the original '49ers' sought their fortunes. Guy Adams reports from Plumas Forest Rich pickings They've been talking about the gold in California's...
DIVERSIFIED CONGLOMERATE Boustead Holdings Bhd is attempting to take its 65%-owned property arm Boustead Properties Bhd private. It is offering RM5.50 per share for the property company, a premium of 18.5% to the latter's last done price of RM4.64 prior to its suspension...
Is the worst over for Zimbabwe? Will Africa and the rest of the world pour in the assistance the country needs to get back on its economic feet or will sceptics prevail? Tom Nevin discusses. "It took Zimbabwe 12 years to end up in this situation....
Walking past a display of new cars in the lobby of his Fort Lauderdale headquarters, Mike Jackson, a self-described student of human nature, explains a disconnect in consumer behavior. Sixty out of 100 people who come into his company's car dealerships say they're ...
Begbies Traynor's full year performance is likely to be woeful, but is there a silver lining? Graeme Davies It may seem inconceivable that an insolvency practitioner would struggle to make hay in the current edgy economic climate, but Begbies Traynor has suffered a...
Byline: Kathy McCarron In a retail environment where profit margins often are negligible thanks to discounted tires and free tire rotations and balancing, several major tire dealerships smell a profit in the air-nitrogen-filled air, that is. ...
NEW YORK -- Envirokare Tech, Inc. ("Envirokare Tech") (OTCBB:ENVK) today announced the results of its annual meeting of shareholders. At the annual meeting held November 14, 2007, the Company's shareholders re-elected: i Louis F. Savelli as a director and Chairman and ii George E. Kazantzis, Walter V....
Byline: Supriya Verma Oct. 2--Pantaloon Retail's FY07 results highlight the gloomy state of affairs in the retail industry despite expanding toplines. Most modern format retailers are witnessing pressure on margins. Increasing rentals, huge inventory build-up, and bulging finance charges are all playing...
Byline: Nat Mankelow The next six months will represent a defining period for the structured finance industry in emerging Europe, as originators and investors take stock of the recent turmoil that has plagued securitisation's home market of Western Europe and...
BlueBay offers some protection from choppy waters Algy Hall Fixed interest fund manager BlueBay Asset Management reckons its conservative approach leaves it well placed to weather the current storm in the world's credit markets. Indeed, it has avoided any structured...
Cold Stone Creamery Continues to Expand with Plans to Open Stores in Mexico, Indonesia, Singapore and Malaysia SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Cold Stone Creamery, the leading purveyor of super-premium, personalized ice cream worldwide, announced plans to make even more people happy in more international locations this...
Quite soon, Great Eastern could be a significant Indian gas producer Nigel Bolitho The timing could hardly be better. In the year to end-March 2007, a combination of gradually deregulated power prices and high liquid natural gas import prices pushed the Indian pool...
Inheritance tax IHTmay have escaped Gordon Brown's reforming zeal, but that doesn't mean you can afford to forget about it. Reform of the tax has been rumoured before each of the chancellor's 11 budgets, but though it has largely been ignored by Brown, IHT has become a real headache for...
The repercussions of the recent dramatic fall in China's A-share market for both domestic and joint venture fund management companies should be limited, according to Peter Alexander, head of Shanghai-based consultants, Z-Ben Advisors. He anticipates further stock market gains in...
WOLVES boss Mick McCarthy insists he's not afraid of the Black Country battle that should carry a Government Health Warning. Today's FA Cup clash against bitter local rivals West Brom is a re-run of a fixture that cost four different managers their jobs in five years...
SkyePharma's shares fell 5 per cent this week after the company took on expensive debt. It raised GBP35m through specialist lending provider Christofferson, Robb and Company CRC in a surprise fund-raising. The facility is repayable over 10 years, based on...
CHICAGO -- Fitch Ratings has been following the recent developments in the Brazilian civil aviation crisis and their possible impact on the credit quality of the main Brazilian airline companies, GOL Linhas Aereas Inteligente S.A GOL and TAM Linhas Aereas S.A TAM. A complete ratings list follows...
Once again, we offer market structure predictions for 2007 to bring in the New Year. A reckoning of last year's predictions follows this year's list. 1. NYSE and Nasdaq Continue to Converge. Already begun with NYSE's ECN-ification via Hybrid, the convergence between our...
Once again, we offer market structure predictions for 2007 to bring in the New Year. A reckoning of last year's predictions follows this year's list. 1. NYSE and Nasdaq Continue to Converge. Already begun with NYSE's ECN-ification via Hybrid, the convergence between our two major equities markets accelerates...
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