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...The SEC charged the United States Oil Fund, the exchange traded product at the centre of last year’s sub-zero oil market meltdown, and its partner United States Commodity Funds, for “misleading statements...
...The latest investment announced on Thursday from Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund adds to the laundry list of global tech, private equity and sovereign investors....
...For example, in a 2010 opinion (Chevron Corp v Steven Donziger, et al) handed down from the US district court in Manhattan, the judge wrote that the “evidence at trial established that Donziger, a New York...
...Blackstone Group, Starwood Capital, the Canadian pension fund manager Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec and Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund GIC are among the biggest borrowers on GSE commercial loans...
...“As Saudi Arabia’s capital markets evolve to match the size of the country’s economy, there is a prime potential for greater debt issuance,” said Meshari Al Khaled, managing director for S&P Global Ratings...
...For instance, a year ago, did you ever think that the chief executive of Goldman Sachs would be actively trolling/taunting the President of the United States on Twitter?...
...The euro is too young a currency to give up so soon the standard of having a single Treasury curve, as in the United States of America....
...Like Greece (and Spain and Ireland et al) these countries received massive capital inflows from abroad, which helped sustain overvalued exchange rates and boosted domestic spending at the cost of export...
...You only need to look at Congress to see the limitations of democracy. Yes, some of our new businesses will cost jobs....
....< Vista Equity Partners, a US-based fund that targets software companies, is considering an offer of $63 a share, in a deal that would value Solera’s equity at $4.3bn....
...For a company like Rural that is traded on a major exchange, ―[t]urnover measured by average weekly trading of . . . 1% would justify a substantial presumption‖ of market efficiency. 5 Bromberg et al., Bromberg...
...Unsurprisingly, Greenspan et al believe China’s integration of its low-cost workforce and state-subsidised capital into the world economy over the past two decades has depressed prices everywhere....
...TPG Capital is poised to announce it has raised an initial $5bn for its latest buyout fund, securing backing from long-time investors including the pension schemes of the State of Oregon and the State of...
...For the best blow-by-blow coverage, follow Laura Keller from Bloomberg News and Debtwire. Restructurings happens for one of three reason a) bad capital structure b) bad business c) both a) and b)....
...On the other hand, the New York Post reports that talk of a settlement is premature....
...Facebook et al may not need the intellectual capital, but they sure needed their cash....
...Courts in the United States sided with NML in finding a “creative” way to finally gain some leverage over the South American nation, which had long refused to make good on defaulted debt owned by the fund...
...Good morning New York, FT ALPHAVILLE Naming and shaming in Japan: David notes another angry reflection of how important rising wages are to Abenomics’ success and how irritated Abe et al are at those big...
...(Reuters, Al Jazeera — breaking at pixel) “Fidelity Investments, the nation’s largest money market mutual fund manager, has sold all of its short-term U.S. government debt — the latest sign that investors...
...But at the end of the first quarter of this year, TPG Asia V fund, which put most of its money to work from 2009 to 2012, had a return of 2 per cent....
...paying NML et al, and without the stay in place....
...No surprise to see GMO et al flag up “impact on third parties” from the start....
...Today, the group’s flagship TPG V fund is still valued at less than 100 cents on the dollar, as several investments of more than $1bn in equity such as Washington Mutual and Aleris have already gone bust...
...Kate argues that Verleger’s view of a hypothetical Saudi et al response to lower prices and/or production is compelling, in that it doesn’t follow that more prolific US oil supply will mean lower global...
...New entrants and smaller banks who cannot use their own databases to create internal risk models are hit with higher “standardised” capital requirements than their bigger or longer-established rivals....
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