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After the default of Saad, Investment Dar and the East Cameron Gas Company, not to mention fears of a default on Dubai's World's Nakheel sukuk, the market for Islamic 'bonds' or sukuk ended 2009 on a bad note. Yet a positive resolution of the uncertainty surrounding the outcome of the Nakheel sukuk could change market sentiment towards the sukuk market. On 8 March, Nakheel's 2.75%...
2010-03-10Finance
US Mergers and Acquisitions Record February 17 - March 02)
2010-03-05Closing Bell
The largely optimistic expectations of bankers, investors and corporate executives for 2010 IPO volumes need to be taken with a grain of salt. The problem with forecasting IPO volumes...
2010-02-04As the first trading week of the year closes, it would be easy enough to celebrate the early year optimism which has swept through the markets and will no doubt extend the M&A recovery....
2010-01-07A week has passed since Fitch downgraded Greece one notch to BBB+ while Standard & Poor's signaled a likely downgrade of its A- rating, and even the news of Abu Dhabi's bailout of...
2009-12-16There are always two sides to a relationship and this applies to that between corporate bond financing and M&A. First we have the impact of the corporate bond boom on M&A activity....
2009-11-11Another failed deal has caught our attention this week. Beijing's decision to veto Tengzhong's acquisition of Hummer, which CFW forecast in 'Beijing Threatens Tengzhong-Hummer deal',...
2010-03-01Abu Dhabi may be bailing out Dubai World, but it seems that the pockets of its sovereign wealth fund, Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA), are still deep enough to fund 'trophy'...
2010-02-05For the first time since 2007, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC) has sold US$2bn of covered bonds to US investors. The transaction attracted more than US$4bn of orders, suggesting...
2010-02-01The Bank of China's decision to sell new shares amounting to a maximum of 20% of existing Hong Kong- and Shanghai-listed shares (subject to shareholder approval in March) embodies...
2010-01-25United States
Healthcare M&A has remained remarkably resilient in 2010, owing to the industry's attempts to combat its stalling drug pipeline and future growth problems with acquisitions, The sector...
2010-02-24Everyone is looking for the next big thing after the BRICs, in search of another set of countries which can provide dizzying growth rates in the years to come. We examine whether...
2010-01-12United States
The food and beverage industry is already proving to be a bright spot for M&A in 2010, with two deals valued at over US$3bn completed in the sector in the first week of this year...
2010-01-12Just as M&A activity is starting to recover from the crisis, it seems a new obstacle has appeared in its way. New UK accounting rules for M&A are causing concern among corporations,...
2010-01-08When Blackstone pulled two of its investments out of planned listings last week due to a frozen IPO market, it was a potent symbol of the difficulties which private equity (PE) has...
2010-02-18Who would have thought that President Obama would become the most protectionist US President since Herbert Hoover? Nevermind the mounting US protectionism which is visible through...
2010-02-10If you have a read through the newspapers at the moment, you could be excused for believing that we have gone back in time to the post-war era. All the concepts that are presented...
2010-02-01President Obama's speech on banking reform this week sent the shares of the big Wall Street banks into a downward spiral. That was not surprising: his statement that 'never again...
2010-01-22
