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India regulator fines carmakers $420 million for anti-competitive practices
August 26th, 2014
India’s pricing regulator has fined more than a dozen global and local carmakers a total of 25.5 billion rupees ($420 million) after a probe found they had engaged in anti-competitive practices in the world’s sixth largest auto market. The ...
eSports is Amazon’s big bet on the future – Bottom Line
August 26th, 2014
While eSports may look and sound like child’s play, it is in fact big business. Last year the industry attracted 71.5m online viewers worldwide, with Twitch being the destination of choice for over 75 per cent of viewers, and ...
California Wine Country Quake Losses reach Billions
August 26th, 2014
A strong earthquake that jolted residents of California’s Napa Valley wine country from their beds on Sunday caused insured property damage likely in the hundreds of millions of dollars, but the region’s total economic losses will be several times ...
Chinese state-owned enterprise investment in Australia
August 25th, 2014
As the negotiation of the Australia–China Free Trade Agreement (FTA) moves into what is hopefully its final phase, there is intense focus on how the investment chapter of the FTA will treat the access of Chinese state-owned enterprises to ...
Rich Russians in U.K. Think About Sanctions, but Keep Buying Mansions
August 20th, 2014
A lunchtime crowd of around 60 real-estate agents and property developers tucked into champagne, caviar and canapés last week at a new six-bedroom mansion in St. George’s Hill, a gated community in London’s leafy suburbs popular with ultrawealthy foreigners. ...
China fines 12 Japanese firms $201 million for price manipulation
August 20th, 2014
China’s anti-monopoly regulator said on Wednesday it has ordered 12 Japanese auto part and bearings makers to pay fines totaling 1.24 billion yuan ($201.80 million) for manipulating prices. Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd, Denso Corp and Mitsubishi Electric Corp are ...
Greek Stock Recovery dims as Europe Turmoil Flattens ASE
August 19th, 2014
The curtain is coming down on Greece’s star turn with international equity investors. Among the best-performing Europe gauges in 2013 after the government carried out the world’s biggest-ever debt restructuring, Greece’s ASE Index has become one of the worst, ...
Quinn Emanuel, Stewarts and Bird & Bird gear up for RBS rights battle
August 18th, 2014
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan and litigation boutique Leon Kaye have formally joined the £4bn shareholder battle brought against the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) over its 2008 rights issue. Leon Kaye, Quinn Emanuel, Stewarts Law and Bird & ...
SEC to examine alternative funds
August 13th, 2014
The U.S. Securities and Commission (SEC) is examining alternative mutual funds that use strategies from hedge funds. The funds are popular to both investment advisers and the public. Net new inflows to alternative funds were $27.8 billion the first ...
Chinese developer Wanda launches $1.7bn Australian arm
August 12th, 2014
One of China’s biggest developers will launch an Australian arm with $1.7 billion in capital to splash into the nation’s real estate market. In an announcement to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange today, the Wanda Group revealed it would ...