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Investor Group to Buy GE Capital’s Australia, New Zealand Consumer-Lending Unit
March 16th, 2015
Investors include KKR, Deutsche Bank, Värde Partners, in one of biggest deals in Asia-Pacific this year In one of the biggest deals in the Asia-Pacific region so far this year,General Electric Co. agreed to sell the consumer-lending business of GE Capital ...
China Prepares Mergers for Big State-Owned Enterprises
March 11th, 2015
Plan seeks to make firms more profitable but tightens government’s grip China’s leadership is preparing to radically consolidate the country’s bloated state-owned sector, telling thousands of enterprises they need to rely less on state life support and get ready ...
Hungry Market Eats Up Oil Bonds
March 10th, 2015
Drop in oil prices has producers raising cash Investors are snapping up new stock and bonds from energy producers as they search for bargains amid the tumult caused by the plunge in oil prices. The buyers are betting these ...
Banks brace for Fed capital buffers inspection
March 5th, 2015
The largest U.S. banks and their foreign rivals are facing a tough two-step check-up of their financial health by the Federal Reserve, forcing the firms to get a far better grip on how they measure risk. In its annual ...
Russian Asset Sales Muddy Sanction Compliance
February 13th, 2015
U.S. Companies Already Have to Contend With Complex Rules In recent months, Boris and Arkady Rotenberg—Russian businessmen and friends of Vladimir Putin —have sold off assets to their sons that include holdings in a Gazprom drilling contractor and the sleek Finnish Langvik Congress ...
Former Petrobras CEO Weighs In on Corruption Probe
February 12th, 2015
Gabrielli Says He Feels Like ‘David Fighting Goliath,’ Denies Any Wrongdoing José Sergio Gabrielli, the former chief executive of Petróleo Brasileiro SA, presided over one of the brightest periods in the state-owned oil giant’s history. During his tenure, from 2005 to ...
U.S. Banks Say Soaring Dollar Puts Them at Disadvantage
February 9th, 2015
Firms Say They May Be Forced to Hold More Capital Than Foreign Rivals The strengthening U.S. dollar is rippling through the financial system in unexpected ways, revealing what bankers say is a hidden flaw in a Federal Reserve proposal ...
Computer-Driven, Automatic Trading Strategies Score Big
February 6th, 2015
So-Called Quant Traders Take Advantage of Volatility ‘These are the best conditions we’ve seen since 2008,’ says Roy Niederhoffer Recent market volatility caught many investors flat-footed. Among the few winners were traders who let a computer be their guide. ...
Russian Central Bank Defends Its Independence After Surprise Rate Cut
February 2nd, 2015
Ruble Slides Lower Against the Dollar The Bank of Russia has defended its independence after Friday’s surprise cut in interest rates raised concerns about the influence of the Kremlin, industrialists and bankers over the central bank’s policy. Amid complaints ...
Swiss Franc’s Leap Lifts Some FX Brokers
January 26th, 2015
Even as some foreign-exchange brokers that focus on serving retail customers were getting hammered by the surprise surge in the Swiss franc earlier this month, other firms that deal mostly with big banks, hedge funds and other large clients ...
