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November 11, 2009
Global institutional investors should acquire their own quotas for China's qualified foreign institutional investor (QFII) programme to take advantage of an expected ...
September 23, 2009
It took four months of negotiations for China's Geely Automobile to sell a 12% stake to a Goldman Sachs (GS) investment fund for $245 million. But the seeds of the ...
September 21, 2009
After the collapse of Lehman Brothers a year ago, things were looking grim for American gambling tycoons Steve Wynn and Sheldon Adelson. The two had expanded into ...
August 21, 2009
The global financial crisis has dramatically altered the investment and political environment facing sovereign wealth funds, according to State Street's latest report ...
May 29, 2009
North Korea might seem like the last place South Korean investors and businesses would want to be right now. After all, North Korea this week threatened to attack ...
March 25, 2009
Just over one week before President Barack Obama and other world leaders meet in London for a summit focusing on the global recession, China is making clear it wants a...
March 13, 2009
Could the Japanese government become the country's stock buyer of last resort? It's not so far-fetched: Less than a week after business leaders proposed that the ...
March 6, 2009
While stock markets across the globe plumb new depths almost daily, China's Shanghai Stock Exchange has been on a tear. Between Jan. 1 and Feb. 16 the Shanghai index ...
January 14, 2009
If anything is certain in these times of extraordinary uncertainty, it's that the current economic downturn is global in scope and will be felt the world over for ...
October 17, 2008
South Korea's central bank on Oct. 17 announced it will provide U.S. dollars to local banks suffering from a foreign currency liquidity crunch, in a step analysts say ...
October 8, 2008
The South Korean currency on Oct. 8 sank 4.8% to a 10-year low as the ongoing global credit crunch forced local banks to scramble for the dollar and prompted many ...
October 1, 2008
Compared with its Wall Street rivals, India's Ambit Holdings has long been considered small fry. Launched in 1988, the Mumbai-based investment bank has just 180 ...
September 29, 2008
Warren Buffett has taken a green leap forward. Des Moines-based MidAmerican Energy, controlled by Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway (BRKA), plans to pay about $231 million ...
September 26, 2008
It was a scene eerily reminiscent of the dark days of Asia's financial crisis in 1997. Long lines of panicked savers waited outside branches of Hong Kong's Bank of ...
September 19, 2008
Plenty of Japanese lenders got burned when Lehman Brothers (LEH) went bust. Major banks, for instance, had been counting on Lehman to pay back an estimated $2.7 ...
September 17, 2008
Amid the wild ups and downs of financial markets this year, there's been one constant: No matter what happens, the Shanghai market will fall. For instance, when all ...
September 17, 2008
It is increasingly shaping up to be an open brawl reminiscent of Microsoft's (MSFT) attempt to take over Yahoo (YHOO). South Korea's Samsung Electronics has released ...
September 16, 2008
Investors in Tokyo had an extra day to digest the news about Lehman Brothers' (LEH) bankruptcy thanks to a three-day holiday weekend. But that didn't make them any ...
August 26, 2008
Asuka Kosaka joined Facebook this year to connect with her English-speaking friends. But when the 29-year-old wants to share her thoughts and photos with 70 friends ...
August 25, 2008
South Korea's government-run bank is unlikely to pursue a takeover of Lehman Brothers (LEH) after a top financial regulator on Aug. 25 expressed opposition to such an ...
August 15, 2008
Two years ago, Wilbur Ross, an investor in distressed securities, set up a $300 million fund focused on India. He convinced India's Housing Development Finance Corp. ...
July 29, 2008
"Aim for the pegs in the middle," says a smartly dressed young man, who has come to check on my progress. I'm playing pachinko, one of the most popular gambling games ...
July 29, 2008
Chinese companies, like the multinationals that have come to China over the past two decades, are reaching for opportunities in new markets abroad. Searching for raw ...
July 25, 2008
At first blush, the quarterly results for Samsung Electronics don't look so bad. The Korean company on July 25 announced a 51% year-on-year rise in its second-quarter ...
July 16, 2008
With the current credit crunch roiling financial markets, private equity firms in the U.S. and Europe are finding it hard to tap the credit they need to fund their ...
