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London, Wednesday, March 18, 2009 ARANCA News Report (www.aranca.com) : Going by the recent press reports, both European Union (EU) and Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) seem be to be intent on making registration of Hedge Funds mandatory for better regulatory supervision.
In the recently concluded G20 meet, the finance ministers and central bankers from the [...]
London, Thursday, March 05, 2009 ARANCA News Report (www.aranca.com) : In order to prioritise expenditure and retain flexibility to for large-scale infrastructure development, the Ministry of Finance of United Arab Emirates announced that it is revamping federal budget and aims to release them every three years. The first ever three-year budget would run from [...]
London, Wednesday, March 4, 2009 ARANCA News Report (www.aranca.com) : In spite of making substantial losses to the tune at least $60 billion on account of investments in US, Swiss and UK banks, the assets under management of sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) increased 18% in 2008. They reached $3.9 trillion according to a new research [...]
London, Thursday, March 03, 2009 ARANCA News Report (www.aranca.com) : Defaults by speculative-grade companies quadrupled in 2008, as economic growth slowed and the credit availability tightened, according to a new report from Moody’s Investors Service. About 101 Moody’s-rated corporate issuers defaulted on a total of $238.6 billion of bonds and $42.6 billion of loans in 2008. [...]
London, Thursday, March 02, 2009 ARANCA News Report (www.aranca.com) : Total consumer spending in Dubai hit Dh37.9 billion ($10.3 billion) in 2008, data from a recent report released by Dubai Statistics Center (DSC) revealed. The report was based on the consumers spends of both UAE national and expatriate families and Dubai and had a sample size [...]
London, Thursday, February 26, 2009 ARANCA News Report (www.aranca.com) : After years of growth in the construction and real estate industry, Dubai is now facing a sharp property sector downturn. As a result, leasing rates are likely to fall by up to 25 percent according to a recent study by Landmark Properties, a Dubai-based estate agent. [...]
London, Tuesday, February 24, 2009 ARANCA News Report (www.aranca.com) : The federal government of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) stepped in help ease liquidity in the emirate of Dubai amidst mounting concerns that the city-state will struggle to pay off its heavy debt borrowed to finance its expansion into a trade and tourism hub.
As part of [...]
London, Monday, February 23, 2009 ARANCA News Report (www.aranca.com) : After six months of decline, US consumer prices rose for the first time in January 2009. Gasoline prices rebounded after dropping steadily through the last five months of 2008. The slight rise in Consumer Price Index (CPI) has helped in temporarily calming fears of deflation.
Data from [...]
London, Friday, February 20, 2009 ARANCA News Report (www.aranca.com) : If the first and second volumes of working papers by the World Economic Forum (WEF) are to be believed then, private equity-backed firms are typically “better managed” than companies without PE funding.
Though the private equity activity has slowed sharply due to deepening financial crisis, WEF [...]
London, Thursday, February 19, 2009 ARANCA News Report (www.aranca.com) : Bank of Japan (BoJ) announced plans to buy upto 1 trillion yen ($10.7bn) of corporate bonds for the first time, as it attempts to spur lending and ease credit flow to cash-strapped corporates. The central bank also extended its asset-purchase program. The world’s second largest economy [...]
