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Chinese Company’s Shares Suspended on Critical Report
September 2nd, 2014
Trading in shares of Tianhe Chemicals, which raised about $650 million in a Hong Kong listing in June, was suspended on Tuesday morning after a report on a website affiliated with short-sellers described the company as “one of the ...
Telecom Italia Delays Sale of Stake in Argentine Business
September 2nd, 2014
Telecom Italia said on Tuesday that it had extended the deadline to Sept. 25 to complete the sale of its controlling stake in Telecom Argentina to the investment firm Fintech Advisory. The deadline, which had been set for Sept. ...
Barclays to Sell Retail and Corporate Bank Units to CaixaBank of Spain
September 1st, 2014
Barclays said on Sunday it had agreed to sell its retail and corporate banking business in Spain to CaixaBank for 800 million euros, or $1.05 billion, the latest development in the British bank’s plan to streamline itself by selling ...
A Chinese E-Commerce Company Is Born and enters competition with Alibaba
August 29th, 2014
Dalian Wanda Group, the Chinese real estate, cinema and retail conglomerate controlled by the billionaire Wang Jianlin, announced on Friday that it would enter the e-commerce industry in an $800 million partnership with Baidu and Tencent, two of China’s ...
Businesses Find Ways to Avoid Corporate Taxes, but a Fix Seems Unlikely
August 29th, 2014
A pharmaceutical company moved its headquarters to Ireland, sharply reducing its tax rate. A billboard company reclassified itself as a real estate concern, meaning it will no longer pay corporate taxes. And a big oil producer split itself in ...
$2.4 Billion Invested in Chinese Bad-debt Company
August 28th, 2014
China’s biggest manager of bad debt said on Thursday that it had attracted about $2.4 billion from eight investors, including Goldman Sachs and Warburg Pincus, before an expected initial public offering here. China Huarong Asset Management, the biggest of ...
Keeping Corporate Lawyers Silent Can Shelter Wrongdoing
August 27th, 2014
Have you heard of Maritza I. Munich? The answer is almost certainly no, yet she is a central figure in Walmart’s unfolding bribery scandal. Ms. Munich was a Walmart lawyer who advocated an aggressive response to investigating the scandal ...
Swiss Bank Pictet Reveals Results for First Time
August 26th, 2014
The Swiss private bank Pictet Group reported its financial results publicly for the first time in its 209-year history on Tuesday, showing a profit and highlighting continuing changes in Switzerland’s traditionally secretive banking culture. Pictet, a privately held wealth ...
Hedge Funds Sue to Get Argentine Bond Payment in London
August 26th, 2014
A group of hedge funds, including George Soros’s Quantum Partners and J. Kyle Bass’s Hayman Capital, is seeking a 226 million euro interest payment on Argentine bonds from Bank of New York Mellon that was blocked by a United ...
Burger King in Talks to Buy Tim Hortons
August 25th, 2014
Burger King may be the home of the Whopper, but Canada may be the new home of Burger King. The restaurant operator said on Sunday that it was in talks to buy Tim Hortons, the Canadian doughnut-and-coffee chain, in ...
