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Monster’s 1.3bn deal with Coca-Cola under Skadden and Jones Day advice
August 18th, 2014
Coca-Cola Company gets advise from Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom and Jones Day, among other, for its deal with energy drink business Monster. The global drinks brand is also to pay $2.15bn (£1.3bn) in exchange for a 16.7 ...
Federated Investors sees S&P 500 at 2,500 in two years
August 18th, 2014
The S&P 500 could hit 2,500 within the next 18 months to two years, according to Barron’s report on Sunday, citing its interview with Stephen Auth, chief investment officer, equities at Federated Investors. A robust U.S. economy growing at ...
Technical Analysis Gold – Steadies Around $1310
August 14th, 2014
Technical Analysis Gold for Thursday, August 14, 2014 To finish out last week Gold exhibited signs of a rejection pattern with its last red candlestick however it has remained quite steady throughout this week hovering around the $1310 level. ...
Ernst & Young Role in Gowex Fraud Questioned
August 14th, 2014
Investors and the Madrid exchange are asking just who was verifying its financial statements, after the Wi-Fi hotspot provider, Let’s Gowex SA collapsed last month. Auditor Jose Diaz, of M&A Auditores, has been named as a suspect and jailed ...
Kinder Morgan deal at the centre of price fixing court battle
August 14th, 2014
Rich Kinder, the Kinder Morgan founder who on Sunday unveiled a $44bn consolidation of a family of companies to create the US’s third-largest energy company, owes no small part of his $10bn-plus personal fortune to a 2006 deal that ...
China Seen Taking Steps to Aid Growth After Credit Plunge
August 14th, 2014
China’s plunge in credit expansion last month and unexpected slowdown in investment spending flashed warnings on growth that investors and economists bet will spur policy makers to expand stimulus. Barclays is forecasting two second-half interest-rate cuts, while Australia & ...
Anti-Terrorism Trial of Mideast Bank Worries the Financial World
August 14th, 2014
The judge called it the Beirut account. It was a basic bank account at Arab Bank’s Al-Mazra branch in Beirut, Lebanon, unremarkable except for the name on the account: Osama Hamdan, a spokesman for the terrorist group Hamas. The ...
As Demand For Oil Drops, Worries Rise For Debt-Heavy Companies
August 14th, 2014
Weak global oil demand is keeping a lid on prices, according to a new report from the International Energy Agency (IEA), and that’s bad news for companies carrying a lot of debt. Oil demand for 2014 will be lower ...
New rule will soon be adopted for audit
August 14th, 2014
A new rule that will require accounting firms to disclose the names of individual partners who work on company audits could be adopted as soon as September, the top U.S. audit watchdog said Wednesday. The rule proposed by the ...
OSB Daily Technical Analysis
August 14th, 2014
OSB Daily Technical Analysis for August 14, 2014 EUR/USD: downtrend and weakness remain intact GBP/USD: at key turning points looking to test 200 DMA EUR/JPY: looking to test 20 DMA with potential push to retest 200 DMA ...
