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BSkyB’s £4.9bn Sky Europe deal includes HSF and A&O firms
July 28th, 2014
Herbert Smith Freehills and Allen & Overy are among the firms to advise on BSkyB’s £4.9bn takeover of Rupert Murdoch’s pay TV companies in Germany and Italy. The acquisitions mark a strategic change for BSkyB, which is hoping to ...
Your Mind, Your Investment Returns
July 25th, 2014
Regular readers know I enjoy discussing behavioral aspects of investing. The reasons for this are twofold: First, we can’t control the markets, but we can control our own reactions to it (at least we can try). And second, many ...
Russian Billionaires in ‘Horror’ as Putin Risks Isolation
July 21st, 2014
Russia’s richest businessmen are increasingly frantic that President Vladimir Putin’s policies in Ukraine will lead to crippling sanctions and are too scared of reprisal to say so publicly, billionaires and analysts said. If Putin doesn’t move to end the ...
EU Readies Russia Sanctions Amid U.S. Pressure on Ukraine
July 16th, 2014
European Union leaders may impose their first sanctions today against Russian companies that are helping undermine Ukraine as the U.S. urges the bloc to take a tougher stance against Moscow. EU leaders may also agree at a summit tonight ...
Juncker faces dilemma over EU tax probe into Grand Duchy
July 9th, 2014
Foot-dragging by Luxembourg over an EU probe into questionable tax deals for multinational corporations has created a potential conflict of interest for the Grand Duchy’s former premier who is set to head the EU’s executive branch. Jean-Claude Juncker, whose ...
Russia’s Grip Over EU Energy Unlikely to Change Soon
July 9th, 2014
The European Union’s initial resolve at breaking its dependence on Russian energy after the Ukraine crisis erupted appears to be giving way to a realization that its giant eastern neighbor will continue to be Europe’s main supplier of natural ...
Germany Proposes a Road Tax Aimed Primarily at Foreigners
July 8th, 2014
The German government announced plans on Monday to charge a road-use fee on all cars using roads and highways in Germany, a measure aimed at the foreign-registered cars that make an estimated 170 million trips to and through the ...
EU approves conditional Telefonica deal
July 2nd, 2014
Telefonica SA (TEF) won European Union approval to merge its German unit with Royal KPN (KPN) NV’s E-Plus after it pledged to bolster smaller rivals and divest spectrum, the European Commission said. Telefonica must sell as much as 30 ...
Post-Crash Economics
June 19th, 2014
In last month’s European Parliament election, euroskeptic and extremist parties won 25% of the popular vote, with the biggest gains chalked up in France, the United Kingdom, and Greece. These results were widely, and correctly, interpreted as showing the ...
European Stocks rise as Fed Signals Support Amid Recovery
June 19th, 2014
European stocks rose after the Federal Reserve repeated its pledge to leave interest rates near their record low and said the world’s largest economy should experience sustained growth. U.S. stock futures were little changed, while Asian shares rallied. Rolls-Royce ...
