Wednesday, 3 December 2008

Layoffs as property slowdown increases (Interactive Investor)



Tue 18 Nov, 2008 13:35
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(AFX UK Focus) 2008-11-20 13:55 UPDATE 1-Dubai real estate suffers as distressed sales rise (Interactive Investor)
By Jason Benham
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Metrovacesa offers to sell HSBC tower for £300m loss (Daily Telegraph)
Troubled Spanish property group offers HSBC the chance to buy back their headquarters in Canary Wharf writes Graham Ruddick.
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The next cut
For several months of this year, David Blanchflower stood alone on the Bank of England's monetary policy comm...
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CME Group Hires Mark Thompson as Director, Hedge Funds - MarketWatch



MarketWatch - Dec 1, 2008
He will be based out of New York and will report to Tina Lemieux, Managing Director, Hedge Funds and Broker Services. Thompson joins CME Group from UBS ...
Eurex Trading Activity Sharply Lower In November CNNMoney.com
UPDATE 1-CME November volume slumps 29 pct on year Reuters
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Ramius Capital to close four funds: reportr - Reuters

Ramius Capital to close four funds: reportr
Reuters - 11 hours ago
Some of the money in Ramius's smaller, soon-to-be-closed funds could migrate to the multistrategy fund, the paper said. Dozens of hedge funds have recently ...
Ramius To Shutter Four Hedge Funds FINalternatives
JP Morgan's Once-Hot Highbridge Goes Cold Wall Street Journal
Highbridge Asia Hedge Fund Said to Limit Withdrawals (Update1) Bloomberg
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Augustus macro hedge fund doubles assets - Reuters

Augustus macro hedge fund doubles assets
Reuters - 5 hours ago
Augustus has assets under management of about $12 billion in long-only, absolute return and hedge funds. During recent months a number of hedge funds have ...
Hyperion Asset Management takes a five-year view The Australian
Augustus Credit, Currency Fund Assets Double FINalternatives
Hedge fund firm PAAMCO integrates smaller group Reuters
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Losses widen at McKay Securities (ShareCast via Yahoo! UK & Ireland Finance)
real estate investment trust McKay Securities saw its net asset value per share dive in the first half of its financial year, as the commercial property sector’s slump worsened.
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From boom to bust - Economist.com



AS I drive up to the dusty fairgrounds of the German-American Social Club of Cape Coral, Florida, I see an abandoned white house with peeling paint and boarded-up windows across ...
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IndexIQ Launches Market's First Suite of Hedge Fund Replication ... - MarketWatch

IndexIQ Launches Market's First Suite of Hedge Fund Replication ...
MarketWatch - 16 hours ago
The benefits of this approach include significantly lower costs compared to traditional hedge funds, greater transparency, and the avoidance of manager- and ...
Institutional investors delay putting more money into hedge funds Hedge Funds Review Magazine
Research and Markets: 2009 Global Hedge Fund Investor Review after ... MarketWatch
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Price: 48.50 - Life Style Extra
It seems that even in these times, we still have peole who seen to be shorting stocks/ ramping them dowm!!!! I have very good knowledge of this company and look at increasing my ...
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Cash to support construction in Scotland - eGov Monitor
Decisive action to help the construction industry tackle current economic challenges was pledged today. Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon revealed that accelerated investment ...
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Act now or face total freeze on home loans, Darling told - Guardian Unlimited
A 50% drop in mortgage lending in the past 12 months and dire predictions by the government's mortgage tsar of a complete freeze in home loans next year prompted calls yesterday ...
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Layoffs at Wolseley as property slowdown accelerates (Reuters via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News)



In a sign of the increasingly acute contraction of the worldwide property market, building supplies company Wolseley announced a slew of layoffs and store closures, sending its shares tumbling as much as 8 percent in early trading.
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Class Action Demands Countrywide Repay Hedge Funds For Losses - The Am Law Daily

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Class Action Demands Countrywide Repay Hedge Funds For Losses
The Am Law Daily, NY - 11 hours ago
Plaintiffs, including the hedge funds Greenwich Financial Services and QED LLC, are represented by David Grais, J. Bruce Boisture, and Owen Cyrulnik of ...
A Tale of Two Loan Modifications, As Investors Sue Countrywide Housing Wire
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EU moves toward new hedge fund rules - Washington Post

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EU moves toward new hedge fund rules
Washington Post, United States - Dec 1, 2008
By AOIFE WHITE AP BRUSSELS, Belgium -- The European Union will this week take the first step toward new rules governing high-risk hedge funds, ...
McCreevy looks into hedge funds IPE.com
EU to hold "wide ranging" hedge funds consultation London Stock Exchange
EU To Poll Firms On Hedge Fund Regulation FINalternatives
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The nationalisation of credit - bbc
As I said boringly and monotonously on Monday, before during and after the pre-Budget report, the overhang of excessive debt accumulated in the boom years remains the biggest ...
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Tuesday, 2 December 2008

(AFX UK Focus) 2008-11-25 10:57 UPDATE 1-Russia LSR 9-mth profit falls on portfolio revaluation (Interactive Investor)



MOSCOW, Nov 25 (Reuters) - Shares in Russian construction and real estate company LSR Group fell as much as 65 percent after the company said its nine-month earnings collapsed due to a portfolio revaluation. Net profit fell 82 percent to $44 million, from $249 million in the first nine months of 2007, the company said in a statement. Normalised net profit, which excludes the effect of the ...
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Thinking about tenancy
When it comes to investing in buy-to-let, landlords have many things to think about. Location is important, with the ...
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Crosby may boost buy-to-let
The long-awaited pre-Budget report brought plenty of items connected with housing. There was an extension of eligibil...
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Correspondent's Diary - Economist.com



From Economist.com AS I drive up to the dusty fairgrounds of the German-American Social Club of Cape Coral, Florida, I see an abandoned white house with peeling paint and boarded ...
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Price: 48.50 - Life Style Extra
It seems that even in these times, we still have peole who seen to be shorting stocks/ ramping them dowm!!!! I have very good knowledge of this company and look at increasing my ...
Source: www.lse.co.uk

The nationalisation of credit - bbc
As I said boringly and monotonously on Monday, before during and after the pre-Budget report, the overhang of excessive debt accumulated in the boom years remains the biggest ...
Source: www.bbc.co.uk

Bank of England Likely to Drop Half a Point on Interest rates



In an attempt to save face it is likely that the MPC will decide a half point drop on Thursday and a further half poi...
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Cape ambition
Over the last few years Cape Verde has built its economic growth on the back of some significant foreign investment. ...
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Paulson Bucks Paulson as His Hedge Funds Score $1 Billion Gain - Bloomberg

Paulson Bucks Paulson as His Hedge Funds Score $1 Billion Gain
Bloomberg - 50 minutes ago
The payoff: Four of Paulson’s funds were among the 20 best- performing, and the 20 most profitable, hedge funds for the first nine months of 2008, ...
CME Group Hires Mark Thompson as Director, Hedge Funds MarketWatch
STREET MOVES: CME Names Mark Thompson As Hedge Fund Liaison EasyBourse.com
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