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...While some funds such as Trium and Kite Lake’s KL Special Opportunities are up double-digits, merger arbs as a whole are up an underwhelming 0.7 per cent on average in the first nine months of this year,...
...That compares with a 1.1 per cent rise in the broader HFRI 500 Fund Weighted Composite index....
...About 9 per cent of KL’s 1.76mn population are foreign residents and — although precise figures aren’t available — anecdotally, many immigrants have left in the past year or so, disillusioned with strict...
...Oil now looks set to re-test the 2016 low of US$27.1/bbl ......
...$195,000 A two-bedroom second-hand apartment in KL City $585,000 A two-bedroom furnished apartment in Tropicana The Residences, KL City $1.8m A six-bedroom house with garden and pool in the Flora Murni...
...Nevertheless, the World Bank estimated that road congestion in and around Kuala Lumpur reduced Malaysia’s 2014 gross domestic product by between 1.1 per cent and 2.2 per cent....
...Who Corcoran, corcoran.com, tel: +1 212 836 1055...
...US hedge fund KLS Diversified Asset Management also lends directly through the Funding Circle platform, buying loans to UK SMEs of £132m....
...Icarus, by Deon Meyer, translated by KL Seegers, Hodder & Stoughton, RRP£17.99 Meyer’s novels present an unvarnished picture of the social divisions in post-apartheid South Africa....
...It’s not enough to know that “Abdul in KL” follows you on Twitter. Is Abdul 12 years old, or 42? What does he earn? What sort of stuff does he buy? Have you got his credit card details?...
...down -0.29% at 1,203 Hang Seng down -0.67% at 21,756 Shanghai Composite up +1.07% at 2,019 MSCI Asia ex-Japan down 0.00% at 456.92 CNX Nifty down -0.37% at 6,493 Currencies €/$ 1.40 (1.39) $/¥ 102.54 (...
...But even 23 floors up, the influence of KL’s melting pot of cuisines can still be felt....
...And all this growth is happening with inflation at low levels: prices data, also released on Wednesday, showed consumer inflation for July was 1.4 per cent up year-on-year....
...It projects total Malaysian capital market size, including equities and derivatives, to grow from $667bn to $1.5tn by 2020....
...There are currently only 199 licensed gambling venues serving the four billion people who inhabit South and Central Asia, compared to around 1,600 casinos in North American and 1,200 in Europe, according...
...The KL composite index edged 0.1 per cent higher to 1276.65. In Sydney, Insurance Australia Group climbed 5 per cent to A$4.21 as speculation mounted that a bid for the company was imminent....
...Malaysian benchmark palm oil futures fell by more than 1 per cent on Thursday to close at M$2,300 per tonne – 48.7 per cent lower than the record of M$4,486 reached in March....
...KL Lee, Singapore James Burton: We have seen no evidence to support these theories....
...In three of the first six months of the year, hedge funds lost money, according to most indices tracking the $1,000bn industry....
...Sometime on Sunday, Milner, more used to a motor bike than a push one, will pedal the last of the 1,000 miles from Land’s End to John O’Groats....
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