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London, Thursday, January 31, 2008 ARANCA News Report (www.aranca.com) :Oil was up to over $92 per barrel yesterday in the wake of the Federal Reserve’s decision to cut interest rates.
The price of US crude stood at $92.33 per barrel at the close of trading, having risen by 69 cents.
The rise came directly after the Fed [...]
London, Wednesday, January 30, 2008 ARANCA News Report (www.aranca.com) :The US will avoid slipping into recession this year, the International Monetary Fund has predicted.
The aid package being formulated by Congress, coupled with the Federal Reserve’s 0.75 per cent interest rate cut, will provide a boost to the economy and prompt a healthier outlook towards the [...]
London, Friday, January 25, 2008 ARANCA News Report (www.aranca.com) 
rivate equity companies stand to benefit from the current market turbulence, staff at some of the UK smaller leveraged buy out firms have claimed.
According to executives at Dunedin, PPM Capital, Matrix Private Equity Partners and Close Growth Capital, the current slump in the markets means that [...]
London, Thursday, January 24, 2008 ARANCA News Report (www.aranca.com) :Large companies are delaying deals in the face of the slump in equity markets, it has been reported.
According to data from Dealogic this year the worldwide volume of deals has dipped 17 per cent, when compared with the same period last year, to $116 billion.
This is [...]
London, Wednesday, January 23, 2008 ARANCA News Report (www.aranca.com) :A hedge fund industry body has published a set of voluntary guidelines for the investment vehicles’ activities.
The UK-based Hedge Fund Working Group’s (HFWG) guide pledges to disclose more information about the risks that the funds run, as well as the fees that are charged.
The documents will also [...]
London, Wednesday, January 23, 2008 ARANCA News Report (www.aranca.com) :Metals such as copper have fallen this week despite the emergency interest rate cut introduced by the US Federal Reserve.
“I think the emergency cut has caused even more concern that the US is headed for a recession, which is not good for metals demand,” Wang Xiaodan, [...]
London, Tuesday, January 22, 2008 ARANCA News Report (www.aranca.com) :Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries’ (Opec) weekly average oil price dropped by $3.65 last week taking the barrel price to $87.18.
The weekly dip came after the daily average oil price continued to fall throughout the week, falling from $88.62 to $86.06 over the last five trading [...]
London, Wednesday, January 16, 2008 ARANCA News Report (www.aranca.com) :The hedge fund industry largely defied turmoil in the financial markets to grow significantly last year, new data has revealed.
According to a study from industry tracker Hedge Fund Research hedge funds garnered a record $194.4 billion of fresh investment in 2007.
This was some 54 per cent [...]
London, Tuesday, January 15, 2008 ARANCA News Report (www.aranca.com) :The outlook for the Gulf states’ corporate market is positive this year and could double in size over the next 12 to 18 months, a financial analysis firm has predicted.
The Arabian Gulf Corporate Bond Market: 2007 Review and 2008 Outlook from Moody’s Investors Services predicts that [...]
London, Monday, January 14, 2008 ARANCA News Report (www.aranca.com) :The Kuwait Investment Authority (KIA) is set to invest a total of $7 billion in Merrill Lynch and Citigroup to assist with plugging holes in their balance sheets.
Kuwait’s cash injection is part of a total investment of $19 billion being sought by the banks as they [...]
