Antigua and Barbuda: Land-Grab, Antigua Style (Mondaq)

Fifteen months have passed since Her Majesty's Privy Council allowed the Government of Antigua and Barbuda to expropriate the Half Moon Bay Resort, a private property developed and owned for over thirty five years by a group of American investors.
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Hedge funds hit by wind-ups as markets bite - Times Online

Hedge funds hit by wind-ups as markets bite Times Online, UK - 8 hours ago "We are being approached by hedge funds considering voluntary fund liquidations on a weekly basis," he said. Mr Shrimpton said turbulent investment markets ... Funds seek end to ban on short selling Financial Times A former hedge fund regulator said turbulent investment markets ... Times Online all 4 news articles

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Merlin Securities Offers New Reporting Tools to Help Hedge Funds ... - MarketWatch

Merlin Securities Offers New Reporting Tools to Help Hedge Funds ... MarketWatch - 1 hour ago SAN FRANSCISCO, Sep 30, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Merlin Securities, a leading prime brokerage services and technology provider for hedge funds, funds of ...

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Property giant Songbird suffers £380m losses as offices empty (Guardian Unlimited)
Owner of Canary Wharf sees real estate values plummet as struggling banks move from Docklands
Source: www.guardian.co.uk

Antigua and Barbuda: Land-Grab, Antigua Style (Mondaq)

Fifteen months have passed since Her Majesty's Privy Council allowed the Government of Antigua and Barbuda to expropriate the Half Moon Bay Resort, a private property developed and owned for over thirty five years by a group of American investors.
Source: www.mondaq.com

Hedge funds face worst year since 1990 - Financial Times

Hedge funds face worst year since 1990 Financial Times, UK - 4 hours ago By Deborah Brewster and Anuj Gangahar in New York Hedge funds on Tuesday closed out one of their worst-ever quarters as US managers braced for an extension ...

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Opening The Fed Lending Window To Hedge Funds - 24/7 Wall St.

Opening The Fed Lending Window To Hedge Funds 24/7 Wall St., NY - 13 hours ago The idea of bailing out hedge funds or helping them in any way runs counter to the best instincts of most citizens, regulators, and law makers. ... Hedge Fund Managers Face Pay Cut On Wall Street all 4 news articles

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Too much cover - Independent

Michael Flately who is reputed to have insured his feet for €32m, pictured at the launch of 'Lord of the Dance' at The Mansion house, Dublin, last year MULTI-millionaire and ...
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A Gulf stream of investment
Back in 2005 the world watched in horror as Hurricane Katrina crossed the Gulf Coast of Louisiana and destroyed the l...
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Several things you may not know about the UK property market
10 things you probably didn't know about the UK property market: 1. The Land Registry house Price Index i...
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Coping with the long-term
In many quarters the view persists that buy-to-let is a relic of a bygone age that has just ended, where a decade of ...
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Small caps round-up 2: Braemore Resources, Circle Oil, DHX Media ... (ShareCast via Yahoo! UK & Ireland Finance)
Growing losses at Braemore Resources had the nickel and platinum miner lower Monday, although it remains confident of the firm's intrinsic value.
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Fly me to the Cape

Cape Verde has a lot going for it. As the nearest tropical islands to Britain and yet in the same time zone, which ru...
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Military couples succeed on debt diet - Columbus Dispatch
While the government tries to figure out how to bail out Wall Street, I've been working this year on ways to bail out three military families from crushing debt. The couples agreed ...
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It 'aint necessarily so
Today's Land Registry figures, on the face of it, appear to paint a fairly glum picture about house prices in...
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Hansteen's NAV rises (ShareCast via Yahoo! UK & Ireland Finance)
Pan-European property investment company Hansteen Holdings saw its net asset value rise in the first half of the year despite slipping into the red.
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Build up your assets overseas (The Scotsman: Business)

UK COMMERCIAL property has been out of favour with investors for over a year now, falling 22 per cent since its peak in mid-2007, according to the investment property Databank
Source: business.scotsman.com

Shorting ban will force hedge funds to change tack - Reuters

Shorting ban will force hedge funds to change tack Reuters - 32 minutes ago By Laurence Fletcher LONDON (Reuters) - Hedge funds will be forced to change their strategies in response to the recent bans on short-selling financials, ... Hedge Funds Are Bracing for Investors to Cash Out New York Times Financial crisis: Hedge funds face record redemptions Telegraph.co.uk Bloodbath ahead Pensions & Investments Globe and Mail - Bloomberg all 21 news articles

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Housing minister is a rent raiser - News.com.au
EXCLUSIVE: NEW Housing Minister David Borger has been exposed as a landlord reaping the rewards of the State's rental crisis, having hiked the rent on his crumbling investment ...
Source: www.news.com.au

Hedge Funds Wash Out of High-Stakes Game - Barron's

Hedge Funds Wash Out of High-Stakes Game Barron's - 10 hours ago Not even hedge funds, the swashbuckling risk-takers of the equity and bond markets. Certain short sales, a key hedging strategy, are banned for now. ... Long-term disadvantages of short-selling ban may outweigh the benefits Telegraph.co.uk all 2 news articles

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How to understand the financial pages - Times Online
Biotechnology companies are a high-risk investment. Fewer than 10 per cent of their products reach clinical development. If a company has a number of products in its pipeline, some ...
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk

Stuck in a financial rut - Chillicothe Gazette

OK, everybody take a long, deep breath and hold it for just a moment. Now let it out really slowly. We've all had our noses pressed up against our computer screens lately watching ...
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Fletcher King sees tough conditions persist (ShareCast via Yahoo! UK & Ireland Finance)
London-based property fund and asset manager Fletcher King said tough market conditions persist with trading conditions remaining difficult, adding that it sees little chance of the market improving before mid-2009 at the earliest.
Source: uk.biz.yahoo.com

'Decay and disrepair' loom as the crunch bites - Edinburgh News
A BLEAK future of Edinburgh communities suffering from "decay and disrepair" has been outlined in a "depressing" new report on the impact of the credit crunch. Council officials ...
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Life isn't worth living in Sydney - News.com.au
SAD to say but, for an increasing number of people, Sydney is becoming too difficult to live in. The state's economy is the worst in the country. There's the endless traffic and ...
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IN FINANCIAL BOOT CAMP - Bradenton Herald

Age: Evibeth, 24. Tarek, 25. Background: The Bathiches are stationed at Fort Meade, Md. Both are in the Army. The couple has two children, 4-month-old Sophia and 3-year-old Anthony ...
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Housing minister is a rent raiser - News.com.au
EXCLUSIVE: NEW Housing Minister David Borger has been exposed as a landlord reaping the rewards of the State's rental crisis, having hiked the rent on his crumbling investment ...
Source: www.news.com.au

Antigua and Barbuda: Land-Grab, Antigua Style (Mondaq)
Fifteen months have passed since Her Majesty's Privy Council allowed the Government of Antigua and Barbuda to expropriate the Half Moon Bay Resort, a private property developed and owned for over thirty five years by a group of American investors.
Source: www.mondaq.com

Local Business News In Brief - Spectrum
Jack and Judi Vandervest are proud to announce the opening of their new brokerage, Desert Edge Realty. With extensive experience in the field of real estate, both as agents and ...
Source: www.thespectrum.com

The grass is greener in the south
The south of England certainly has many attractions - warmer weather, rolling hills, quaint market towns and, of cour...
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Property giant Songbird suffers £380m losses as offices empty (Guardian Unlimited)

Owner of Canary Wharf sees real estate values plummet as struggling banks move from Docklands
Source: www.guardian.co.uk

How hedge funds, tax exiles and City financiers helped fund the Tories - guardian.co.uk

BBC News

How hedge funds, tax exiles and City financiers helped fund the Tories guardian.co.uk, UK - Sep 27, 2008 Yesterday critics were quick to attack Cameron for taking money from hedge funds. 'Now we see that the same hedge fund wolf pack who brought HBOS to its ... TORIES' £3M BOOTY FROM CITY SHARKS Mirror.co.uk Now is time to show us policy The Sun Revealed: the Conservatives' secret millions Independent The Press Association - Guardian Unlimited all 1,018 news articles

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Hedge Funds Wash Out of High-Stakes Game - Barron's

Hedge Funds Wash Out of High-Stakes Game Barron's - 2 hours ago Not even hedge funds, the swashbuckling risk-takers of the equity and bond markets. Certain short sales, a key hedging strategy, are banned for now. ... Hedge Funds Are Bracing for Investors to Cash Out New York Times Financial crisis: Hedge funds face record redemptions Telegraph.co.uk Bloodbath ahead Pensions & Investments MarketWatch - Globe and Mail all 13 news articles

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Plan B for investment
In recent years many sceptics about the benefits of buy-to-let have argued that when people have invested in property...
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Fletcher King sees tough conditions persist (ShareCast via Yahoo! UK & Ireland Finance)

London-based property fund and asset manager Fletcher King said tough market conditions persist with trading conditions remaining difficult, adding that it sees little chance of the market improving before mid-2009 at the earliest.
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Private investors stay sitting on the hedge - Financial Times

Private investors stay sitting on the hedge Financial Times, UK - 51 minutes ago By Matthew Vincent Wealthy private investors have not rushed to sell out of funds of hedge funds (FoHFs), say brokers, in spite of the price falls seen in ... Bid to unravel Lehman trades Times Online all 3 news articles

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France to hold up, say experts
With many overseas property markets stuttering, stagnating or simply spiralling downwards in the wake of the credit c...
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(AFX UK Focus) 2008-09-11 11:02 HK Sun Hung Kai Props FY net up 30 pct on revaluation gain; core up 6 pct UPDATE (Interactive Investor)
HONG KONG (XFN-ASIA) - Sun Hung Kai Properties Ltd said its year-to-June net profit was 27.60 bln hkd, up 30 pct from 21.23 bln hkd a year earlier, boosted by higher rental income and a huge revaluation gain on its investment properties.
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Liberal Democrats in new interest rate plan
In a week when the headlines have been dominated by Lehman Brothers, AIG, the HBOS takeover by Lloyds TSB and the gen...
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Housebuilder’s staff meet to discover fate - Evening Telegraph

The staff at Gladedale’s Dundee office, which is earmarked for closure, were called to a meeting today to find out their fate (writes Jenna Cairney). It is understood the ...
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Olympian dreams for US property investment
Those investing in overseas property in the US may have some big dreams about what they can achieve, particularly if ...
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Shock as boat firm lays off 90 workers - Peterborough Evening Telegraph
LUXURY yacht-maker Fairline, based near Peterborough has announced it is cutting 90 jobs from its workforce. Award-winning boat firm which has bases in Oundle and Weldon, near ...
Source: www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk

Second thoughts over plan for short leash on City 'spivs and ... - Scotland on Sunday

Telegraph.co.uk

Second thoughts over plan for short leash on City 'spivs and ... Scotland on Sunday, UK - 1 hour ago "We know a number of hedge funds have been highly critical of the decision and have in fact questioned the legality of it. A number of hedge funds have ... Shorting ban will force hedge funds to change tack Reuters Hedge funds: Regulators come up short Euromoney Magazine UK Hedge Funds Say Data Show Low Short-Sale Volume Wall Street Journal Sunday Business Post - Internatioonal Financial Law Review all 224 news articles

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Financial crisis: Hedge funds face record redemptions - Telegraph.co.uk

Financial crisis: Hedge funds face record redemptions Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - 4 hours ago Global hedge funds will this week be forced to hand back hundreds of millions of pounds to investors in the biggest round of redemptions the sector has ever ... Short-sale ban disrupts trades for hedge funds MarketWatch Citadel, TPG-Axon Stumble Toward Worst Year in Hedge-Fund Swoon Bloomberg Outlook bleak for hedge funds Globe and Mail Financial Post all 7 news articles

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We are no soft touch’ - Watford Observer

Defiant councillors have warned would-be house builders that Watford is “no soft touch”. The message was delivered after Watford Borough Council ’s planning committee was ...
Source: www.watfordobserver.co.uk

How to understand the financial pages - Times Online
Biotechnology companies are a high-risk investment. Fewer than 10 per cent of their products reach clinical development. If a company has a number of products in its pipeline, some ...
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk

Fletcher King sees tough conditions persist (ShareCast via Yahoo! UK & Ireland Finance)
London-based property fund and asset manager Fletcher King said tough market conditions persist with trading conditions remaining difficult, adding that it sees little chance of the market improving before mid-2009 at the earliest.
Source: uk.biz.yahoo.com

Hansteen's NAV rises (ShareCast via Yahoo! UK & Ireland Finance)
Pan-European property investment company Hansteen Holdings saw its net asset value rise in the first half of the year despite slipping into the red.
Source: uk.biz.yahoo.com

SEC orders hedge funds, broker-dealers to give data - guardian.co.uk

SEC orders hedge funds, broker-dealers to give data
guardian.co.uk, UK - Sep 25, 2008
By Rachelle Younglai WASHINGTON, Sept 25 (Reuters) - US securities regulators have ordered more than two dozen hedge funds, broker-dealers and institutional ...
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Posted by: Matthew Goldstein on September 26 - BusinessWeek

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Posted by: Matthew Goldstein on September 26 BusinessWeek - 18 hours ago With so many hedge fundsâ€"including some very large onesâ€"posting negative returns this year, there’sa big fear that wealthy investors and pension funds are ... South Africa funds industry emerges strong HedgeWeek Investors need to know the difference between "good" and "suitable ... Morningstar Canada 'Banning the practice will not help' GulfNews all 396 news articles

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High-Flying Hedge Funds See Dark Days - ABC News

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High-Flying Hedge Funds See Dark Days ABC News - Sep 26, 2008 Welcome to the new world of hedge funds. Once known for their outsized profits, many funds today are reportedly seeing losses that rival or exceed those of ... Funds Assess Lehman (Gulp!) Exposure Wall Street Journal London Turns Against Hedge Funds in Hunt for Culprit (Update1) Bloomberg Lehman Won't Return Prime Broker Assets for `Weeks' (Update1) Bloomberg Wall Street Journal - Bloomberg all 13 news articles

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Shock as boat firm lays off 90 workers - Peterborough Evening Telegraph
LUXURY yacht-maker Fairline, based near Peterborough has announced it is cutting 90 jobs from its workforce. Award-winning boat firm which has bases in Oundle and Weldon, near ...
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Fourth Quarter 07 market overview - Charity Times
The US sub-prime mortgage debacle dominated the third quarter of 2007 and the resulting volatility is likely to be with us for some time. As such, says Heather Lamont, it is ...
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Policy proposal time

If this week was the occasion for policy action in Washington as the US government airlifted Freddie Mac and Fannie M...
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New proposal challenges eco town ethos
Today has been another big news day for eco towns, coming as it does on the eve of the party conference season, when ...
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Too little, too late? - InsideHousing
So there is little evidence of competition problems in the house building industry? Thoughts of horses and stable doors sprang instantly to mind when I read that - except that in ...
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Outlook bleak for hedge funds - Globe and Mail

Globe and Mail, Canada - 11 hours ago
A note from TD Waterhouse pointed out Thursday that a Eurekahedge poll of 4000 hedge funds around the world found that just one in 10 are earning ...

The grass is greener in the south

The south of England certainly has many attractions - warmer weather, rolling hills, quaint market towns and, of cour...
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Policy proposal time
If this week was the occasion for policy action in Washington as the US government airlifted Freddie Mac and Fannie M...
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A Gulf stream of investment
Back in 2005 the world watched in horror as Hurricane Katrina crossed the Gulf Coast of Louisiana and destroyed the l...
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UK hedge funds shouldn't sue the FSA - Internatioonal Financial Law Review

UK hedge funds shouldn't sue the FSA
Internatioonal Financial Law Review, UK - 1 hour ago
Hedge funds that are planning to sue the UK Financial Services Authority (FSA) over last week's short selling rules are wasting their time. ...
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Anxious wait for hedge funds - Financial Times

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Anxious wait for hedge funds Financial Times, UK - 14 hours ago By James Mackintosh in London Hedge funds with billions of dollars at Lehman Brothers' prime brokerage in London face a wait of months to get back assets ... Hedge Funds Start Legal Action Over Assets at Lehman, FT Says Bloomberg Hedge Funds Battle To Save Billions From Lehman (LEH) Bankruptcy Clusterstock Hedge funds take legal action to recover Lehman assets First Post Financial Times - Financial Times all 48 news articles

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US SEC tells dozens of hedge funds to provide data - guardian.co.uk

US SEC tells dozens of hedge funds to provide data guardian.co.uk, UK - 7 minutes ago WASHINGTON, Sept 25 (Reuters) - US securities regulators have ordered more than two dozen hedge funds to hand over information about their trading activity ...

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Dig a hole. Fill it with debt. Mark the spot. Your kids will find it ... - bbc

It is Friday, Day Five of the Wall Street meltdown. I have just reported on BBC World News America (10pm Eastern) that Democrat lawmakers plus Paulson and Bernanke have agreed in ...
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Sailing around the Cape
Those involved in international property investment who are familiar with the recent development of Cape Verde will b...
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Hopes vanish for commercial property recovery (Reuters via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News)
Property fund managers and analysts have written off all hope of a British commercial real estate recovery in the next year-and-a-half, consensus data showed on Friday.
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(AFX UK Focus) 2008-09-09 14:29 UK property values fell another 2 pct in Aug- CBRE (Interactive Investor)
LONDON, Sept 9 (Reuters) - British commercial property values sank by a further 2.1 percent in August, extending the market's correction from its peak a year ago to 21.5 percent, data from CB Richard Ellis (CBRE) showed on Tuesday. The property services firm said total returns -- rental income and capital growth combined -- were on average minus 7.6 percent in the first eight months of 2008 ...
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A factory-produced ray of hope
In a week when scientists ensconced underground have set about sending some rays whizzing through tubes in the hope o...
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Hedge funds scramble to keep up - Financial Times

Financial Times, UK - 22 hours ago
Hedge funds are frantically remodelling their trading strategies as they strain under the confusion of adapting to a vast set of global short-selling ...

(AFX UK Focus) 2008-09-09 14:29 UK property values fell another 2 pct in Aug- CBRE (Interactive Investor)

LONDON, Sept 9 (Reuters) - British commercial property values sank by a further 2.1 percent in August, extending the market's correction from its peak a year ago to 21.5 percent, data from CB Richard Ellis (CBRE) showed on Tuesday. The property services firm said total returns -- rental income and capital growth combined -- were on average minus 7.6 percent in the first eight months of 2008 ...
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Liberal Democrats in new interest rate plan
In a week when the headlines have been dominated by Lehman Brothers, AIG, the HBOS takeover by Lloyds TSB and the gen...
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Policy proposal time
If this week was the occasion for policy action in Washington as the US government airlifted Freddie Mac and Fannie M...
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Olympian dreams for US property investment

Those investing in overseas property in the US may have some big dreams about what they can achieve, particularly if ...
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Fletcher King sees tough conditions persist (ShareCast via Yahoo! UK & Ireland Finance)
London-based property fund and asset manager Fletcher King said tough market conditions persist with trading conditions remaining difficult, adding that it sees little chance of the market improving before mid-2009 at the earliest.
Source: uk.biz.yahoo.com

(AFX UK Focus) 2008-09-12 07:34 real estate Investors to buy Birmingham property for 4 mln pounds (Interactive Investor)
LONDON (Thomson Financial) - real estate Investors Plc. said it will buy York house on the corner of Great Charles Street and Newhall Street in central Birmingham for 4 million pounds cash.
Source: www.iii.co.uk

Hedge funds stick to their short-sell strategy - Times Online

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Hedge funds stick to their short-sell strategy Times Online, UK - 10 hours ago Late last week, the Financial Services Authority (FSA) imposed a ban on hedge funds and other investors taking short positions against the British financial ... Hedge funds plan to sue FSA over short-selling ban Telegraph.co.uk British hedge funds to sue over short-sale ban: reports MarketWatch Is the hedge fund era really over? CityWire.co.uk guardian.co.uk - InvestmentNews all 859 news articles

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Hedge Funds Start Legal Action Over Assets at Lehman, FT Says - Bloomberg

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Hedge Funds Start Legal Action Over Assets at Lehman, FT Says Bloomberg - 6 hours ago 24 (Bloomberg) -- Hedge funds have begun the first of what may be a series of legal actions against administrators for the main European arm of Lehman ... Hedge funds fight for Lehman-related assets FT Alphaville GLG Adds Voice To Criticism Of Lehman Transfers FINalternatives Prime brokers jostle to win Lehman clients Financial News MarketWatch - Bloomberg all 22 news articles

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