Sovereign Wealth Funds

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• Government Reconsiders Quick Sale of Citigroup Stake

  
  NewsHunter.org — Authority: 170
  Two days after Citigroup moved to untangle itself from Washington, the Treasury backed away from plans to immediately sell a portion of its stake in the bank, according to a person briefed on the situation.
  1 week ago

• Abu Dhabi sues Citigroup over its $7.5bn investment in US bank

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 985
  Emirates wealth fund is bound to pay for Citigroup shares at 10 times current price The oil-rich emirate of Abu Dhabi is trying to disentangle itself from a disastrous deal two years ago to shore up the finances of Citigroup into whose stock it pledged to pump $7.5bn (£4.6bn) at a pre-arranged level 10 times ...
  1 week ago

• Abu Dhabi Fund to Pursue ‘Legal Rights’ in Citigroup Dispute

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 904
  Abu Dhabi’s main sovereign wealth fund is seeking compensation or an exit from its $7.5 billion investment in Citigroup.
  1 week ago

• Abu Dhabi Wants Out of Its Citigroup Stock Deal

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 766
  Imagine agreeing to pay between $31.83 and $37.24 a share now for Citigroup ( C ). With the stock closing below $4 Tuesday, anyone would say "no deal" to such an offer today. But thats exactly the deal the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority struck in 2007 when it agreed to invest $7.5 billion in Citigroup . The ADIA ...
  1 week ago

• Theres gold in them thair bailouts!

  
  Daniel W. Drezner — Authority: 624
  Hey, remember last year when there was a lot of populist hostility to the whole bailout idea because it was going to cost the taxpayers a truckload?  Its funny how things turn out :  The Treasury Department expects to recover all but $42 billion of the $370 billion it has lent to ailing companies since the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Big Paydays for Rescuers in the Crisis

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 904
  In less than two years, many big sovereign wealth funds have reaped huge gains from bailing out financial institutions.
  3 weeks ago

• Kuwaiti fund rakes in $1 billion profit on Citigroup sale

  
  BloggingStocks — Authority: 676
  Filed under: Citigroup Inc. (C) , Bank of America (BAC) In a case of buy low, sell high, Kuwaits sovereign wealth fund just unloaded its $4.1 billion stake in Citigroup ( C ). In doing so, the fund scored a $1 billion profit -- and a 37% rate of return on its investment -- according to the Kuwait Investment ...
  3 weeks ago

• Kuwaiti Fund Sells Citigroup Stake

  
  DealBook — Authority: 776
  Kuwaits sovereign wealth fund said on Sunday it booked a profit of $1.1 billion by selling the stake it took in Citigroup less than two years ago when the banking giant was strapped for cash.
  3 weeks ago

• China & the world economy

  
  Wednesday-Night — Authority: 135
  CIA World Factbook: China Economy Overview Old and new: to ensure the Chinese economy was not engulfed by the global malaise, the government injected huge sums into public spending projects Photo: GETTY China eyes industrial bases in Africa Lower-value manufacturing facilities could be moved out of China ...
  3 weeks ago

• Wednesday Night #1448

  
  Wednesday-Night — Authority: 135
  This week is filled with an assortment of somewhat unrelated topics, although sooner or later the thread always becomes the world economy and the impact of events on it. A is for Afghanistan , as it often is, and the focus will be on President Obama’s Tuesday speech at West Point, which according to media ...
  3 weeks ago

• In Wake of Dubai, Trying to Predict the Next Blowup

  
  NewsHunter.org — Authority: 170
  The travails of Dubai have some economists wondering where other debt bombs might be lurking — and just how dangerous they might turn out to be.
  4 weeks ago

• Wednesday Night #1448

  
  Wednesday-Night — Authority: 135
  This week is filled with an assortment of somewhat unrelated topics, although sooner or later the thread always becomes the world economy and the impact of events on it. A is for Afghanistan , as it often is, and the focus will be on President Obama’s Tuesday speech at West Point, which according to media ...
  4 weeks ago

• Dubais financial crisis: how much money do banks lend around the world?

  
  News: Datablog | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 120
  The financial crisis in the United Arab Emirates has shone a light on the huge sums banks now lend around the world. Find out how much each country in the world has outstanding – and who the big lenders are • Get the data Now that the government of Dubai has been forced to guarantee banks debts , attention has ...
  4 weeks ago

• Abu Dhabi stock market suffers worst one-day fall on record

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 985
  • Investors seize opportunity to offload shares as market reopens • Securities Exchange falls 8.31% while Dubai World loses 15% • Moodys warns contagion from the debt crisis is unavoidable The Abu Dhabi stock market suffered its biggest one-day fall today as the Dubai debt crisis continued to haunt the worlds ...
  4 weeks ago

• Nick Mathiason on banking bailout of Dubai

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 985
  As Middle East markets reopen, Nick Mathiason on banking bailout of Dubai Nick Mathiason
  4 weeks ago

• Dubai shares plummet as crisis continues - LIVE

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 985
  • Abu Dhabi stock market fell over 7% when trading began • More details on rescue plan expected 7.23am: Another important development this morning is that Nakheel, creater of those artificial islands that are shaped like palms, has asked the Dubai authorities to halt trading in three of its bonds, worth a total ...
  4 weeks ago

• Why Dubai’s Debt Crisis Isn’t Likely THE Next Lehman

  
  prudent investor newsletters — Authority: 129
  ``In the first place, government must cease inflating as soon as possible. It is true that this will, inevitably, bring the inflationary boom abruptly to an end, and commence the inevitable recession or depression. But the longer the government waits for this, the worse the necessary readjustments will have to be. The ...
  4 weeks ago

• Dubai to hold emergency talks

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 985
  Hopes Abu Dhabi will ride to the rescue of troubled state as experts fear crisis could plunge world back into recession Furious bondholders have arranged emergency talks with Dubai officials this week in an effort to get some clarity on the financial health of the state-owned company Dubai World, which caused ...
  4 weeks ago

• A black swan in the desert

  
  Global Investing — Authority: 117
  Just when investors were settling down to lock in a few of the year’s profits and put their feet up for the end of the year holidays, a black swan has come waddling out of the desert to put everything on edge. The unwelcome cygnus atratus came in the form of Gulf emirate Dubai telling creditors of Dubai ...
  4 weeks ago

• Dubai Fund Asks for Time to Reorganize Debts

  
  NYT > Global Home — Authority: 150
  The Dubai government, in a blunt acknowledgment of the severity of its financial position, said that it had asked its banks for a six-month stay on its schedule of debt repayments.
  4 weeks ago

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