Investment News 07/2007 (Page 4)

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08 July 2007 SANA'A - A modern scientific paper considers the increase of tax averages one of the most important obstacles of investment in Yemen. (Jul 9, 2007)

JAKARTA, July 9 (Reuters) - Foreign direct investment (FDI) in Indonesia rose 17 percent to $4.1 billion in the first half of this year compared to the same period a year ago, state investment agency data (BKPM) showed on Monday. (Jul 9, 2007)

Monckton Chambers has scored a European Court of Justice (ECJ) victory that will see investment trusts collectively receive a £300m tax refund in addition to making annual savings of £40m. ... (Jul 9, 2007)

Vanu®, Inc. today announced the closing of an $8 million USD angel investment round. The Angel investors included pre-existing stockholders, directors of the company and Charles River Ventures. (Jul 9, 2007)

A: This year certainly hasn't been kind to real estate investment trusts. (Jul 9, 2007)

VMware has announced that it's entered into an investment agreement with Intel Capital to the tune of $218.5 million. (Jul 9, 2007)

A real estate investment firm in Boston has purchased eight warehouses, three manufacturing buildings and one flex building totalling nearly 900,000 square feet of fully occupied space in Johnstown and Gloversville. (Jul 9, 2007)

S3 Investment Company, Inc. (PINKSHEETS: SIVC), a holding company with two subsidiaries doing business in the China market, today issued its July 2007 investor newsletter. A PDF version of the July 2007 newsletter can be viewed on the company's website at (link) . (Jul 9, 2007)

One of the most significant national events in the aerospace industry has business leaders focusing on Ohio as a leader in advancing aerospace propulsion technologies and a target for business expansion, according to the Ohio Business Development Coalition, the nonprofit organization that markets the state for capital investment. Prominent business leaders in the aerospace industry will meet this ... (Jul 9, 2007)

July 9 (Bloomberg) -- Banca Italease SpA, the Italian leasing company that had to pay more than $830 million after derivatives transactions went bad, may lose its investment-grade debt rating, according to traders of credit-default swaps. (Jul 9, 2007)

LONDON -(Dow Jones)- Aberdeen Property Investors said Monday that it has made its fifteenth and final investment for Aberdeen Indirect Property Partners ( AIPP), Europe's largest pan-European pooled property fund of funds. (Jul 9, 2007)

FLINT - A Flint-based marketing company has received $15,000 to develop a new Flint School District program to teach kids about investments, but so far the financially struggling district's own investment hasn't amounted to anything. (Jul 9, 2007)

Bankrupt auto parts supplier Delphi Corp. said Monday that it has ended an investment agreement with private equity group Cerberus Capital Management and other investors who were going to invest up to $3.4 billion to help the company emerge from bankruptcy. (Jul 9, 2007)

Brightstar Corp. ("Brightstar"), announced today it has received $283 million in equity financing from Lindsay Goldberg, a New York-based investment partnership. (Jul 9, 2007)

Charter Real Estate Investment Trust ("Charter REIT")(TSX VENTURE: CHR.UN) is pleased to announce that it has entered into an agreement to purchase a portfolio of triple net leased properties and development properties located primarily in Western Canada (the "Acquisition"). The purchase price for the portfolio is approximately $80 million before closing costs and is subject to customary closing ... (Jul 9, 2007)

NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Egypt should receive record net foreign direct investment of more than $10 billion in the current fiscal year ending in June, according to the country's primary governmental authority on investment. (Jul 9, 2007)

RioCan Real Estate Investment Trust ("RioCan") (TSX: REI.UN) today announced that it will record a non-cash charge to earnings of $150 million in the second quarter of 2007. The charge relates to RioCan's future income tax liabilities to be recorded as a result of tax legislation included in Bill C-52, the Budget Implementation Act, 2007, which received Royal Asset on June 22, 2007. This is a ... (Jul 9, 2007)

Overseas investment by Thai individuals and companies has increased in recent months, according to the Bank of Thailand. (Jul 9, 2007)

Buys board seat to watch IPO Reinforcing its status as the software darling of the moment, VMware has secured a whopping $219m investment from Intel.… (Jul 9, 2007)

Buys board seat to watch IPOReinforcing its status as the software darling of the moment, VMware has secured a whopping $219m investment from Intel.… (Jul 9, 2007)

Nemir Kirdar was once a pioneer in the business of petrodollar recycling. It was at the height of an earlier oil boom, in the early 1980s, that he convinced wealthy Gulf families to help him start Investcorp , a Bahrain-based global investment company whose mandate was to channel surplus Gulf cash into international acquisitions. (Jul 9, 2007)

KUALA LUMPUR, July 10 (Bernama) -- In what is a milestone enforcement action against investment scams, the Securities Commission has obtained a worldwide Mareva injunction against persons involved in the Swisscash investment scam preventing them from disposing assets in and outside Malaysia. (Jul 10, 2007)

MOSCOW. July 10 (Interfax) - Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel (RTS: MAGN) has approved an investment program for this year of $800 million, the company said in a statement. (Jul 10, 2007)

The Indonesian government licenced foreign and domestic investment projects worth Rp65.27 trillion in the first semester of 2007, up 52.60 percent from the same period last year, an official said. (Jul 10, 2007)

Iran - Algeria - Investment Algerian Minister of Water Resources Abdelmalek Sellal here Monday called on Iranian companies to make investment in his country's energy sector. (Jul 10, 2007)

For how long can the investment banking industry defy predictions that this is as good as it gets? Despite subprime mortgage losses and some failed financings, plenty of business is still getting done. (Jul 10, 2007)

great uncertainties and rapid changes behind new borderless economy, politics, national competition, markets, banking, investment, trade and resources. Get insights from a leading strategist George Zhibin Gu. (Jul 10, 2007)

HARTFORD, CT (2007-07-10) Royal Bank of Scotland Group has announced a big investment in energy trading. The bank also wants to merge its Citizens Bank subsidiary with its own banking division in Bridgeport. WNPR's Harriet Jones reports. (Jul 10, 2007)

New Delhi, July 10 (IANS) With Thailand keen to boost economic cooperation with northeastern India, a northeast investment opportunities week will be held in Bangkok in the first week of October to showcase the investment potential of the region. (Jul 10, 2007)

RioCan Real Estate Investment Trust ("RioCan") (TSX: REI.UN) today announced that it has completed a sale of about 17.5 acres of land to Wal-Mart Canada Corp. ("Wal-Mart") whereby Wal-Mart will join Quartier DIX30, Canada's first lifestyle centre located in Brossard, Quebec. Featuring over 180,000 square feet, Wal-Mart will be located on the north end of the project. Site work is expected to ... (Jul 10, 2007)

CLX Investment Company, Inc. (OTCBB: CLXN) today announced that the Board of Directors has appointed Steven R. Peacock to the position of consultant chief executive officer for the company. Mr. Peacock, managing director of Javelin Advisory Group, a business development and management firm, will be responsible for executing an acquisition strategy designed to deliver value to the company and its ... (Jul 10, 2007)

STRASBOURG, France, July 10 (Reuters) - No intervention is needed to rein in the power wielded by a clutch of "bulge bracket" investment banks, the European Union's top market regulator said on Tuesday. (Jul 10, 2007)

Iran - Algeria - Investment Algerian Minister of Water Resources Abdelmalek Sellal here Monday called on Iranian companies to make investment in his country's energy sector. (Jul 10, 2007)

With Thailand keen to boost economic cooperation with northeastern India, a northeast investment opportunities week will be held in Bangkok in the first week of October to showcase the investment potential of the region. (Jul 10, 2007)

10 July 2007 MERRILL LYNCH ( Nachrichten ) COMMODITIES INCOME INVESTMENT TRUST plc Interim announcement of results in respect of the six months ended 31 May 2007 - Company's NAV rose by 29.2% and share price by 25.8% on a total return basis. (Jul 10, 2007)

The president of a Manhattan investment advisery firm pleaded guilty to a criminal charge that he misused nearly $400,000 of investors' money for his own benefit, including funding a record label, prosecutors said. (Jul 10, 2007)

Elite Meetings International (EMI) announced today the company has received a $2 million equity investment from Jones Equity Partners (JEP). The agreement also gives EMI direct access to an additional $5 million in a revolving line of credit. (Jul 10, 2007)

Financial services giant Lazard will buy Minneapolis investment bank Goldsmith Agio Helms & Lynner, the companies said today. (Jul 10, 2007)

The British Columbia Securities Commission has reached a settlement with a pair of Vancouver-based investment company managers who admitted to violating securities laws and breaching their duties as directors. (Jul 10, 2007)

Appriss(R) Inc., the leading provider of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions to local, state, and Federal criminal justice and law enforcement agencies, has secured a strategic investment from Bain Capital Ventures and JMI Equity to recapitalize the company. Senior financing related to the transaction was provided by Wells Fargo Foothill. Terms of the investment were not disclosed. (Jul 10, 2007)

Legg Mason Inc. has launched two new separately managed account offerings that give retail investors access to the investment strategies of its top bond subsidiary. (Jul 10, 2007)

Legg Mason Inc. has launched two new separately managed account offerings that give retail investors access to the investment strategies of its top bond subsidiary. (Jul 10, 2007)

Morningstar, Inc. , a leading provider of independent investment research, today announced that Kunal Kapoor, CFA, has been named president of Morningstar Investment Services, Inc. (MIS), a registered investment advisor and wholly owned subsidiary of Morningstar. Kapoor, who most recently served as director of business strategy for Morningstar's international operations, replaces Art Lutschaunig, ... (Jul 10, 2007)

A one-time USC Marshall School of Business lecturer was sentenced Tuesday to six years in prison for operating a real estate investment scheme whose victims included former students. (Jul 10, 2007)

Louisville-based Appriss has received an investment from Bain Capital Ventures and JMI Equity to recapitalize the company. Terms of the Bain and JMI investments weren't disclosed. Appriss was orginally backed by Louisville-based Chrysalis Ventures. Bain Capital Ventures is part of Bain Capital, the Boston-based global private equity firm that invested in Sungard Data Systems, Experian, Taleo, ... (Jul 10, 2007)

The British Columbia Securities Commission has reached a settlement with a pair of Vancouver-based investment company managers who admitted to violating securities laws and breaching their duties as directors. (Jul 10, 2007)

Morningstar Inc. said that Art Lutschaunig is stepping down as president of the Chicago investment-research firm's Morningstar Investment Services Inc. unit, and will be succeeded in that role by Kunal Kapoor. (Jul 10, 2007)

July 11 (Bloomberg) -- Japan's current account surplus widened in May as a weaker yen increased the value of overseas investment income and exports. The surplus expanded 31 percent to 2.13 trillion yen ($17.5 billion) from a year earlier, the Ministry of Finance said in Tokyo today. (Jul 11, 2007)

VietNamNet Bridge – VinaCapital's infrastructure investment fund has announced its first investment through the acquisition of a 3.8% stake in HCMC-based Tan Tao Industrial Park Corporation, or Itaco, which is trading shares on the HCMC Securities Trading Center. (Jul 11, 2007)

Global rating agency Standard & Poor's lowered corporate credit rating on Tata Steel to 'BB' reflecting non-investment grade as against the earlier rating of 'BBB,' an investment grade. (Jul 11, 2007)

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