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• The Herd: Promotions and departures for 12.2.09

  
  Richmond BizSense — Authority: 527
  The CEO of a big company is stepping down, plus a handful of hires around town.
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• News from this day in 1930: “the decline is nearing its end”

  
  Credit Writedowns — Authority: 682
  From the site News from 1930 : National City Bank notes epidemic of bank failures, and that “processes of deflation operate in a vicious circle” but is nevertheless optimistic: “obviously this sort of thing has to come to an end some time, and by the very nature of the circumstances the turn comes … ...
  18 hours ago

• Are We There Yet?

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 753
  Submitted by Nic Lenoir of ICAP While economic projections are all over the spectrum from 3.5/4% growth and inflation to a relapse, markets dont quite show the same enthusiasm as strategists. While moves are quick and erratic,  overall participation in Fixed Income and Equities is very light. The exception is the ...
  19 hours ago

• Big Budget Advertising Leading To Increased Droid Sales

  
  Trends Updates — Authority: 588
  Ever since the introduction Motorola Droid to the consumers at large, both Verizon and Motorola have spared absolutely no efforts to ensure that the impact of the device powered by Google Android reached to the masses. To make that happen both the companies set you with a $100 million advertising campaign to promote ...
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• Divestment not more than 10 percent in state firms: Pranab

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 728
  New Delhi, Dec 1 (IANS) Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee Tuesday said the government was not seeking to divest more than 10 percent in state-run firms for now, but would do so in three firms by the end of March.“We will not sell more than 10 percent stake in listed state-run firms at this stage,” [...]
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• Perpetual Says Pace Of Mortgage Fund Redemptions Declining

  
  money-au.com.au — Authority: 131
  Leading Australian asset manager Perpetual says the rush by investors to redeem investments in its mortgage funds significantly declined during the September quarter as investor fear subsided slowing the pace of their conversion into federally backed deposits. Simultaneously Perpetual said it enabled investors who ...
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• Breaking news from FT: Dubai rejects debt guarantee. This is going to hurt!

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 156
  Breaking news from FT: Dubai rejects debt guarantee Dubai’s government will not guarantee the debts of Dubai World, the state-owned holding company struggling under the weight of $59bn (£36bn) in liabilities, arguing that lenders were mistaken to think that there was sovereign backing. Abdulrahman al-Saleh, ...
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• Analyst cuts Manulife target over share issue

  
  FP Trading Desk — Authority: 577
  RBC Capital Markets analyst Andre Hardy chopped his target for Manulife Financial Corp. after the company took the markets by surprise issuing $2.5-billion of common equity. Manulife has defended the move, pointing out that it will enable it to boost capital levels and prepare for potential acquisition ...
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• Guest Post: Iran’s Nuclear Ambitions Highlight Kazakhstan’s Uranium Potential

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 753
  Submitted by John Daly of www.oilprice.com Iran’s Nuclear Ambitions Highlight Kazakhstan’s Uranium Potential One bonus of the global recession is that it wiped a lot of incompetent hedge fund managers and energy speculators from the canyons of Wall Street. As the Gordon Gecko sycophants regroup and look ...
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• US banks have just US$13B exposed to UAE

  
  Wellington Financial Blog - News, Views & Purviews — Authority: 424
  As nervous as I was on Friday morning about the ability of global banks to duck the impact on a payment standstill at Dubai World (see prior post “ Eid’s pause won’t help Western Banks as Dubai reels ” Nov 27-09), the U.S. stock markets seemed to sluff it off during the holiday-shortened day. Certain U.S. ...
  2 days ago

• CBA Breaks Silence On Dubai World Exposure Says No Material Loss Expected

  
  money-au.com.au — Authority: 131
  Australian banking major Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) broke its silence Monday and issued an announcement confirming that the lender does not have a large enough exposure to incur a material loss from a possible default by troubled sovereign holding company Dubai World. CBA released a terse one sentence ...
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• Index Funds 101

  
  Rich Credit Debt Loan — Authority: 536
  The most significant invention in the 20th century as far as investing goes is mutual funds, at least if you are a small individual investor with modest means. Thanks to mutual funds, the benefits associated with large scale international capital markets are now capable of being taken advantage by more than just the ...
  2 days ago

• Liberal turmoil clouds debate on climate bills

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  The Federal Opposition looks set to change leaders, as the emissions trading legislation that sparked the Liberal row comes back before the Senate. The Upper House failed to meet the Governments deadline of passing the scheme by last week, prompting the Governments Senate leader, Chris Evans, to accuse the Opposition ...
  3 days ago

• Rudd plays careful hand at CHOGM

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  Prime Minister Kevin Rudds appearance at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) is an exercise in double-purpose diplomacy. First, he wants to keep a high profile among his Commonwealth colleagues, meeting all the big players of this 53-nation group: Britains Gordon Brown, Indias Manmohan Singh, South ...
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• Biox looks set to raise $50 million in IPO

  
  Wellington Financial Blog - News, Views & Purviews — Authority: 424
  On a day where the world was thinking about debt defaults in the oil-rich United Arab Emirates, along comes news that Wellington Financial Fund III portfolio co. BIOX Corp., a biodiesel producer, is close to raising up to $50 million in an initial public offering on the TSXV: JJR IV Acquisition Inc. has entered ...
  3 days ago

• Bay Street Buzz

  
  Wellington Financial Blog - News, Views & Purviews — Authority: 424
  This information courtesy of Bill Vlaad, of Vlaad & Co.: West Face Capital has hired Morgan Stanley veteran Richard Carty as a Partner of the firm. BMO Capital Markets has hired Peter Plumptre as an Associate in their International Financial Institutions group. Previously, Peter was at Lloyds in the U.K. as ...
  4 days ago

• Cease and desist and other administrative FDIC orders

  
  Credit Writedowns — Authority: 682
  A lot has been made of the most recent FDIC quarterly report , especially the large increase in problem banks to 550 – at least in the blogospehere ; some media outlets seem to be burying this news .  Underneath this news are the specific stories about troubled institutions, some of which the FDIC chronicles in ...
  4 days ago

• Eid’s pause won’t help Western Banks as Dubai reels

  
  Wellington Financial Blog - News, Views & Purviews — Authority: 424
  The markets are closed in Dubai today for Eid. After a crazy 36 hours on the local trading desks, the respite will be particularly welcome; even if Sunday is coming. A friend of mine emailed yesterday: what impact could this Dubai default have on North American financial institutions with no direct exposure to the ...
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• CBA Silence On Dubai World Exposure Deafening

  
  money-au.com.au — Authority: 131
  Australian banking major Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) has refused to comment on whether the lender has any exposure to troubled sovereign holding company Dubai World. The AAP sought comment from CBA on whether the lender had any exposure to either Dubai World or Dubai Commercial Operations Group LLC. In ...
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• Clarus Securities looks at Copenhagen impact on clean tech stocks

  
  Wellington Financial Blog - News, Views & Purviews — Authority: 424
  I’ve got to hand it to the research team at Clarus Securities . They’ve ruminated on the upcoming Copenhagen Climate Agreement meetings and have found a bunch of angles of relevance to public market securities in the broad Clean Tech space: Copenhagen Climate Agreement Likely to Be Delayed into Next Year ...
  5 days ago

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