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London, Monday, March 31, 2008 ARANCA News Report (www.aranca.com) :The City of London is expected to experience a surge in the number of redundancies in the financial services sector during the next three months.
According to the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) by Mid-May as many as 11,000 jobs in the field could be shed.
This is [...]
London, Monday, March 31, 2008 ARANCA News Report (www.aranca.com) :Sovereign wealth funds, which are currently the subject of much controversy, experienced impressive growth last year, new figures show.
Data from International Financial Services (IFS), which is to be released later today, shows that the state-backed investment vehicles grew by 18 per cent over the course of [...]
London, Monday, March 31, 2008 ARANCA News Report (www.aranca.com) :Equity funds worldwide experienced record capital outflows during the first quarter, new data reveals.
According to a report from Emerging Portfolio Fund Research (EPFR), around $98 billion was pulled out of the investment vehicles in the US and western stock markets by investors during the first three [...]
London, Friday, March 28, 2008 ARANCA News Report (www.aranca.com) :The acquisition of British car marques Jaguar and Land Rover by Tata Motors has significantly boosted the value of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) deals in India in the past two months, new data shows.
In a deal announced this week Tata paid $2.3 billion for the companies [...]
London, Friday, March 28, 2008 ARANCA News Report (www.aranca.com) :
The global volume of merger and acquisition deals (M&A) in the first quarter fell to its lowest level in four years, new figures suggest.
Preliminary data from Dealogic indicates the value of announced M&A stood at $652 million during the period, making it the least active [...]
London, Friday, March 28, 2008 ARANCA News Report (www.aranca.com) :Volatile conditions have prompted thriving business on the London Stock Exchange (LSE), new data shows.
Figures from the LSE show that over the last 11 months the average number of trades on its electronic platform has risen by 86 per cent to 629,000 per day.
This equates to [...]
London, Thursday, March 27, 2008 ARANCA News Report (www.aranca.com) :Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in the Brazilian market are poised to hit record levels this year, it has been predicted.
The National Investment Banking Association, known locally as Abbid, predicts that the boom will be fuelled by increasing consolidation in the banking, retail and housing sector.
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London, Thursday, March 27, 2008 ARANCA News Report (www.aranca.com) :The governor of the Bank of England Mervyn King has said he will continue to support banks suffering as a result of the credit crunch.
Addressing a Treasury Select Committee, Mr King said that, after meeting with chief executives with the five largest UK lenders last week, [...]
London, Thursday, March 27, 2008 ARANCA News Report (www.aranca.com) :Calls to more closely regulate the activities of sovereign wealth funds have been rejected by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
Latterly, sovereign wealth funds have come under increasing scrutiny amid fears that Chinese and Middle Eastern governments could us the funds to advance their [...]
London, Tuesday, March 25, 2008 ARANCA News Report (www.aranca.com) :Fears over the direction of the US economy in the coming months have prompted crude oil to fall for a fourth consecutive day.
On the New York Mercantile Exchange crude oil for May delivery dipped by 1.2 per cent or $1.20 to fall to $99.96 in after-hours [...]
