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  • June 2007

    • Bad US Loans Sink London Hedge Fund

      Financial Times (UK)  |  Jun 29, 07 4:26 AM CDT

      Bad US Loans Sink London Hedge Fund

      (Newser) -  A London hedge fund is the latest casualty of the US subprime mortgage crisis that has already hit American investment companies, the Financial Times reports. After losing 53% of its value, Caliber Global Investment will sell its assets and try to repay $900 million to investors over the next year. More »

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      subprime mortgages  • London  • business  • mortgage  • hedge fund  • investing

    • KKR Buyout Spree Hits a Snag

      Wall Street Journal  |  Jun 12, 07 4:31 PM CDT

      KKR Buyout Spree Hits a Snag

      (Newser) - Buyout giant KKR's $26B acquisition of electronic payment processor First Data Corp is not going smoothly, reports the Wall Street Journal . Once enthusiastic investors are shying away from private equity deals as interest rates steepen. "We have enough exposure to KKR already," said one major financier. More »

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      acquisitions  • private equity  • hedge fund  • buyout  • investing  • KKR  • Kohlberg Kravis Roberts  • Henry Kravis

  • May 2007

    • China's Stock Market Soars to Record

      BBC  |  May 28, 07 8:17 PM CDT

      China's Stock Market Soars to Record

      (Newser) - Despite Alan Greenspan’s warning that the market was due for a correction, Shanghai’s stock market index topped 4000 today. So far this year the Chinese stock market has doubled. Since 2006 it has quadrupled. The main driving force behind the surge has been an odd form of democracy. More »

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      China  • stock market  • business  • investing  • Alan Greenspan  • Chinese stock market  • equity

    • Buffett Holdings Tie Gates To Darfur Crisis

      Los Angeles Times  |  May 4, 07 1:57 PM CDT

      Buffett Holdings Tie Gates To Darfur Crisis

      (Newser) - A Berkshire Hathaway investment in a Sudanese oil company is posing thorny problems for the Gates Foundation, the Los Angeles Times reports. Warren Buffet's investment outfit is the largest independent shareholder in PetroChina, whose parent company the U.N. and U.S. say funds Sudan's janjaweed militia—a stark contrast to the foundation's mission. More »

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      oil  • Sudan  • money  • Darfur  • Warren Buffett  • investing  • Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation  • PetroChina  • janjaweed

  • April 2007
  • March 2007

    • Financial Action Flees to London

      New York  |  Mar 20, 07 7:24 AM CDT

      Financial Action Flees to London

      (Newser) - Wall Street’s position as the center of the financial universe—unchallenged for more than a century—is under serious threat from the City of London, according to John Gapper. London is catching up with Gotham in bond trading, already ahead in derivatives and the place to be for really big cap IPOs. More »

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      New York City  • London  • business  • Wall Street  • Goldman Sachs  • finance  • investing  • international trade

    • Does Saudi Arabia Have a Dubai Complex?

      Los Angeles Times  |  Mar 12, 07 1:23 PM CDT

      Does Saudi Arabia Have a Dubai Complex?

      (Newser) - Saudi Arabia is on a building binge. King Abdullah City—a planned $26.7-billion development where multi-million-dollar yachts will dock in the ports that currently welcome 300,000 Mecca-bound pilgrims—is one of five major “economic cities” the government is building in an attempt to spur private-sector growth and create new industries to stabilize its boom-bust oil economy. "Oil is a volatile commodity and we cannot keep a country hostage to it," says Fawaz Alamy, the country's chief technical negotiator for World Trade Organization accession. Is Saudi Arabia—a.k.a. "the land of the two holy mosques"—on course to become the next Dubai? More »

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      US economy  • oil  • Middle East  • Saudi Arabia  • investing  • King Abdullah  • economic growth  • Dubai  • Mecca

    • Greenspan Sees Recession

      Yahoo!  |  Mar 6, 07 11:04 AM CST

      (Newser) - Back when bankers and investors hung on his every word, Alan Greenspan was caution itself in public pronouncements . But yesterday the former chairman  took the rare step of predicting the onset of an out-and-out recession. Speaking via satellite to a business conference in Hong Kong, Greenspan said the US. economy has been expanding since 2001, and that the current slow down is probably not a temporary lag but the end of a cycle.                 More »

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      US economy  • recession  • money  • investing  • Alan Greenspan  • budget deficit

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