Posted by admin on May 19th, 2008
MagicBricks.com, India’s No 1 property site brings a golden opportunity for NRIs & PIOs, in the USA who are planning to return to their homeland or invest in real estate in India. MagicBricks.com India Property show, USA will offer the best of properties from India including hundreds of residential and commercial properties to choose from, [...]
Posted by admin on May 19th, 2008
Venture capitalists are people, just like you and me. They put their pants on one leg at a time, and they’re prone to making investing mistakes just like the rest of us. That said, it’s hard to deny that some VCs are clearly better than others. John Doerr is one of Silicon Valley’s more successful [...]
Posted by admin on May 9th, 2008
Finance Minister Ibrahim Al-Assaf said yesterday that the Kingdom is setting up an SR20 billion investment firm that may be open to partners. The company will draw its capital from the General Investment Fund and would offer attractive opportunities in the Kingdom with low risks to foreign investors.
Speaking at the inauguration of the Euromoney Saudi [...]
Posted by admin on May 7th, 2008
US alternative asset manager Angelo, Gordon has decided to buck the trend by listing a special purpose acquisition company while others were waiting for equity market conditions to improve.
The hedge fund, real estate and private equity manager, which has $15bn (€9.6bn) of assets under management, has set out to raise $300m for the Spac, the [...]
Posted by admin on May 1st, 2008
Good causes are missing out on ï¿¡750m a year because charities are not managing their vast endowments properly, Investment Opportunity a report by the Institute for Philanthropy has shown.
A survey of 277 charities, including the Wellcome Trust and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, found that trustees with responsibility for ï¿¡56bn routinely consider investment issues “off the [...]
Posted by admin on May 1st, 2008
Serbia and Italian car maker Fiat signed on Wednesday a memorandum of understanding, which envisages strategic cooperation and joint investment to produce new cars in Serbia’s state-owned Zastava car plant.
“Fiat has ambitions to start production of a completely new model in Zastava by 2009,” Investment Opportunity said Serbian Minister of Economy Mladjan Dinkic, who signed [...]
Posted by admin on April 27th, 2008
It’s funny how Gold was smashed down so strongly just before options expiry. Investment Opportunity It seems the shorts lured in as many longs as possible with Gold over $950 and looking strong not too long ago just to be taken down below $890 on expiry day. If Gold had closed above $890 many longs [...]
Posted by admin on April 25th, 2008
Eagle Bancorp, Inc. (the “Company”) EGBN, the parent company of EagleBank, today announced net income of $1.7 million ($0.17 per basic share and per diluted share) for the three months ended March 31, 2008, compared to $1.7 million ($0.18 per basic share and $0.17 per diluted share) for the three months ended March 31, 2007.
“We [...]
Posted by admin on April 22nd, 2008
Investments in bonds prescribed under Sec. 54EC qualify for abatement of tax on capital gains. Interest from such bonds is, however, taxable. Sec. 10(15)(iib) exempts only Capital Investment Bonds, which have been notified by the Government. Bonds referred by the reader are not Capital Investment Bonds nor are they notified for such exemption. Investment Opportunity [...]
Posted by admin on April 18th, 2008
Last night’s confirmation by the Royal Bank of Scotland that it is considering raising more capital through a rights issue is likely to send shivers through the stockmarket today, but it was inevitable. Mervyn King, governor of the Bank of England, has made it clear since the credit crisis began nine months ago that he [...]