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...Berlin is not the first AAA-rated nation to do this: last year France sold €7bn of debt with a 22-year maturity and this year the Netherlands issued a 20-year green bond worth almost €6bn in a climate of...
...“Looking at the second half of 2017, the Nintendo Switch, the launch of Microsoft’s Xbox One X, and a solid slate of AAA titles should drive growth in the video game category,” said chief executive Paul...
...Wall St banks ride boom in leveraged loans as volumes soar (FT) Odebrecht says it wants to keep investment in Braskem after LyondellBasell report (Fast FT) Novartis to buy French nuclear medicine group AAA...
...What next for troubled telecoms group Cable and Wireless Worldwide and over-remunerated boss John Pluthero? How about 40 per cent reduction in its shareholder funds?...
...Angang, one of China’s largest producers of steel, had been due to repay a AAA-rated Rmb5bn ($793m) three-year note by January 4....
...When Standard & Poor’s, the US rating agency, removed the AAA rating from US sovereign debt two weeks ago, for example, it left the AAA rating for four US companies unchanged....
...Recent purchases for Cazenove’s strategic bond fund include senior secured notes issued by Cable & Wireless as well as senior bonds from Virginia Media....
...Anil Ambani’s investment company, AAA Com, which holds his stake in Reliance Communications, has held out the prospect of trying to seek “damages” from Reliance Industries....
...When we move to 4G and we want to make the leap to WiMax or the new versions of 802.11 wireless, we’ll have a real requirement to go to a new chemistry or face very limited features.”...
...Of the 656 entities at risk of downgrade, only six carried the top AAA rating, all in Europe....
...It has universal voltage, making it compatible with the mains electricity supply of most countries and can take all forms of AA and AAA batteries....
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