United Kingdom | Thursday, 28 August 2008

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1. State funds could own five percent of firms
Sovereign wealth funds could collectively own over 5 percent of the world's major companies over time and their desire to diversify into equities would push real bond yields to rise, State Street said on Tuesday.
24 Jul 2008
2. Study links IMF loans to tuberculosis
Austerity measures attached to International Monetary Fund (IMF) loans may have contributed to a resurgence in tuberculosis in eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, researchers said on Tuesday.
22 Jul 2008
3. Fund managers most negative on equities in 10 years
Fund managers are gloomier about equities than at any time in at least the last 10 years and aversion to risk is close to what it was during the Bear Stearns crisis in March, a Merrill Lynch poll showed on Wednesday.
18 Jul 2008
4. IMF warns economy in "tough spot"
The International Monetary Fund on Thursday revised up estimates it made in April for global growth this year and next but coupled it with stern warnings that demand was slowing sharply in major industrial economies and inflation rising everywhere.
17 Jul 2008
5. Buffett and international funds fill financing void
With Wall Street still hesitant to make big bets on merger financing, corporate buyers are looking to wealthy investors such as Warren Buffett and international funds to bankroll their shopping sprees.
14 Jul 2008
6. Bigger may be better as smaller hedge funds give up
Bigger may really be better for hedge funds at a time the $2 trillion (1 trillion pound) industry's smaller players face tough choices of either merging or being forced out of business.
09 Jul 2008
7. Pension funds move from equities to bonds
Almost half of final salary pension funds have moved assets from equities to bonds in the past year, as they respond to market volatility and aim to match assets more closely with liabilities, figures show.
09 Jul 2008
8. Taylor Wimpey seeking more finance
Taylor Wimpey said on Monday that is was seeking to raise extra funds, most likely by placing new shares.
30 Jun 2008
9. Credit Suisse fund shuns commodities
Credit Suisse's UK thematic fund is shunning red-hot commodity stocks, preferring instead to buy conservatively run companies with strong balance sheets and firms that gain from climate change and security issues.
26 Jun 2008
10. Nigeria signs funding deal with Shell
Nigeria signed a $3.1 billion (1.6 billion pound) deal with the local arm of Royal Dutch Shell on Monday to plug a funding gap in their joint venture projects, the country's state oil firm NNPC said.
27 May 2008
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