I’ve often thought there should be a Nobel prize for corporate finance. It would go to the broker or investment bank that managed to place the largest IPO under the most unpromising circumstances. If there were such an award, I think ...
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Four global garment and home-textile brands are awaiting the approval from the Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) for setting up single-brand retail stores in India under its foreign direct investment (FDI) policy. The FIPB may ...
Cambodian garment industry is attracting huge foreign investments due to tax incentives and duty free access to world’s major markets like the US and the UK. In a conversation with fibre2fashion, the business development manager of ...
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An Iraqi telecom company raised nearly $1.3 billion Sunday on Baghdad’s small stock exchange in one of the region’s biggest share offers in years — a sign of investor confidence in the fledgling private sector despite ...
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South Africa-based coal company Coal of Africa Limited (CoAL) has announced that it has received $80 million in payment from China-based coal producer Haohua Energy International (HEI), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Beijing Haohua Energy ...
Tags: Coal, coal producer, Coal Industry
Colombiatex of the Americas 2013, the three day textile trade show held last month, attracted several foreign investors and generated business opportunities worth US$ 152.5 million from other countries including the US, the UAE, Mexico, ...
Tags: Colombia, Textile Trade Show, Business
A Taiwan delegtation formed by government officials, researchers and industry players recently concluded a six-day visit in Japan, where they probed the possibilities of forming strategic alliances between the two countries. According to ...
The 25th edition of Colombiatex de las Américas — an annual trade show produced and organized by the Institute for Export and Fashion (Inexmoda), Medellín, Colombia — was held Jan. 22-24, 2013, at Plaza Mayor in ...
China's dependence on foreign crude oil and refined oil products is set to increase, but the government has placed a cap at 61% of total requirements for the end of the current five-year economic plan in 2015, according to a new government ...
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The United Kingdom’s Trade Minister Lord Green met with local business leaders, British company executives, as well as the Iraq Britain Business Council representatives in Basrah today (23rd). The hour long meeting focussed on the ...
The Australian Securities Exchange has appointed high-profile former Treasury secretary Ken Henry to its board as financial regulators consider ending the exchange's monopoly on post-trade clearing services. Dr Henry, who quit his post at ...
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From January to December 2012, the investment in fixed assets (excluding rural households) reached 36,483.5 billion yuan, up by 20.6 percent year-on-year (actual increase was 19.3 percent after deducting price factors), decreased 0.1 ...
Tags: Investment, Fixed Assets, 2012
The total investment in real estate development in 2012 was 7,180.4 billion yuan, a year-on-year growth of 16.2 percent (nominal growth rate. The real growth rate was 14.9 percent), decreased 0.5 percentage points over the first eleven ...
Tags: Estate Development, Sales, 2012
In the year of 2012, in face of the increasingly complicated and severe international situation and arduous tasks of domestic reform, development and stability, the Central Party Committee and the State Council took scientific development ...
Beijing-based Hanergy Holding Group Ltd (claimed to be China's largest privately owned renewable energy firm) has finalized its acquisition of MiaSole of Santa Clara, CA, USA, which was founded in 2001 to make copper indium gallium ...
Tags: Hanergy, China, CIGS, MiaSole, PV solar panels