Posted by admin on September 3rd, 2008
Southwest China’s Tibet Autonomous Region is trying to realize 380 million U.S. dollars in foreign trade this year, despite the impact of the RMB appreciation and March 14 riot in Lhasa, the regional capital.
Investment Banks In the first seven months, the autonomous region did 200.96 million U.S. dollars worth of foreign trade, a year-on-year rise [...]
Posted by admin on July 13th, 2008
BlackRock today reported a jump in assets under management for the second quarter, while JPMorgan Chase and BNY Mellon said their asset totals remained unchanged from the previous quarter.
BlackRock reported $1.43 trillion in assets, up 5% from the first quarter and up 16% from the previous year. Management fees in the second quarter were $1.2 [...]
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 17th, 2008
Mozambique expects foreign direct investment to climb 30 percent in the next four years as the economy expands, Finance Minister Manuel Chang said.
Investment will probably reach $450 million this year and $560 million by 2011, compared with $430 million in 2007, Chang said in an interview in Maputo, Mozambique today. Agriculture and tourism are likely [...]
Posted by admin on May 7th, 2008
Vinod Aachi, head of equity structuring, private banking and retail coverage Asia ex-Japan at Deutsche Bank, provides a perspective on what the credit crisis and the return of volatility have meant for the structured products market in Asia and how issuers of such products can remain relevant in the current market environment.
It’s no surprise that [...]
Posted by admin on May 7th, 2008
SCOR realises strong net income of EUR 124 million in the First Quarter 2008, up 63% despite a challenging financial environment
SCOR records strong results, carrying its profitability momentum into 2008. A strong business performance in Non-Life and Life more than offsets a decrease in investment income due to a challenging financial market environment. The quarter [...]
Posted by admin on April 22nd, 2008
Century Investments Public Ltd. reported a higher full year pretax profit and revenue, and said it is contemplating the sale of some of its operating properties to take advantage of the demand for quality income generating properties from foreign investors.
The Ukraine-based real estate company said it is also exploring forward sales of projects and debt [...]
Posted by admin on March 19th, 2008
Seat Pagine Shares Drop After Dividend Is Omitted (Update3)
By Chiara Remondini
March 19 (Bloomberg) — Seat Pagine Gialle SpA, Italys
largest publisher of telephone directories, fell the most since
it started trading in Milan in August 2003 after saying it wont
pay a dividend [...]
Posted by admin on March 19th, 2008
Seat Pagine Shares Drop After Dividend Is Omitted (Update3)
By Chiara Remondini
March 19 (Bloomberg) — Seat Pagine Gialle SpA, Italys
largest publisher of telephone directories, fell the most since
it started trading in Milan in August 2003 after saying it wont
pay a dividend [...]
Posted by admin on March 19th, 2008
The FINANCIAL — Georgia. HeidelbergCement plans to construct a new cement plant in Saskhori (30 km from Tbilisi ) with a capacity of 2 million tonnes.
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The plant will supply the market in Georgia as well as neighboring markets in Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan. These countries are suffering from a [...]
