Investment News 08/2007 (Page 5)

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New businesses are finding homes in Whyalla. BankSA, in its July edition of the economic bulletin Trends, has attributed this to a statewide increase in business investment. (Aug 12, 2007)

Nigerian President Umaru Yar'Adua expressed his warm welcome for Chinese investment in the country's power sector during a meeting with a Chinese delegation in the Presidential Villa here on Friday. (Aug 12, 2007)

Nigerian President Umaru Yar'Adua expressed his warm welcome for Chinese investment in the country's power sector during a meeting with a Chinese delegation in the Presidential Villa here on Friday. Governor Gbenga Daniel of Ogun State, ... (Aug 12, 2007)

Dubai government investment agency Istithmar, which agreed last week to buy Barneys New York Inc. for $942.3 million, said the U.S. luxury-clothing store plans to open up to five outlets at a cost of as much as $100 million. (Aug 12, 2007)

KUWAIT, Aug 12 (Reuters) - Kuwait's Investment Dar has raised its stake in Boubyan Bank to 20 percent, the limit allowed by the central bank, the Kuwaiti stock exchange said on its Web site on Sunday. (Aug 12, 2007)

Gazprom boosts its investment program for 2007 (Aug 12, 2007)

VietNamNet Bridge – The new Investment Law has been in effect for more than one year and it is the improved version of the two systems of investment laws on foreign and domestic investment. However, many investors, especially foreign ones, are not satisfied with many points in the new law. (Aug 13, 2007)

(RTTNews) - The stock market in Sydney, Australia is trading in the positive territory on Monday morning, led by commercial banks such as National Bank of Australia and investment banks such as Macquarie Bank, on optimism that the decision taken by the major central banks across the world including the US Federal Reserve and the ECB to pump in additional funds into the stock markets which are ... (Aug 13, 2007)

Building on a string of robust returns over the past five years, UNC-Chapel Hill's endowment appears to have capped off one of its best investment performances ever in 2007. (Aug 13, 2007)

Brown Advisory, an investment banking firm in Baltimore, recently said it would combine its investment advisory practice with that of Beaty Haynes & Associates, based in Bethesda, making the combined firm one of the largest independent advisory firms in the region in terms of client assets. (Aug 13, 2007)

"It ain't over till it's over," Yogi Berra said. That's also how a couple of crackerjack investment pros view the recent declines in the volatile and increasingly treacherous stock market. Even though the Federal Reserve poured $62 billion into the financial system in the past two trading days to ease mushrooming credit worries, our duo — a hot-performing hedge fund manager and a well-respected ... (Aug 13, 2007)

Investment bank Focus LLC has bought an Alexandria company and plans to announce three more acquisitions in the coming weeks. (Aug 13, 2007)

TOKYO (Thomson Financial) - Net assets of Japanese stock-oriented investment trusts fell in July, their first fall in 14 months, due to declines in stock prices worldwide and massive cancellations of exchange-traded funds, according to data released Monday by the Investment Trusts Association Japan. (Aug 13, 2007)

Former Cadmus managing director Ian Bailey has launched a new investment and management company aimed at the IT sector. (Aug 13, 2007)

The United States is on a concerted campaign to discourage foreign energy companies from doing business in Iran. But analysts say Iran's investment woes are its own fault -- it could dodge international pressure and attract more foreign money by simply offering better deals. (Aug 13, 2007)

LONDON (Thomson Financial) - Spazio Investment NV said it has submitted a binding offer to buy a real estate asset from Ortensia Srl for about 31.5 mln eur. (Aug 13, 2007)

LONDON (Thomson Financial) - Braveheart Investment Group PLC said it has invested 600,000 stg in Inxstor Ltd to provide working capital and support the expansion of its technical team and product development process. (Aug 13, 2007)

VietNamNet Bridge – Chu Lai Open Economic Zone (EZ) Management Board has decided to tighten investment licencing as a lot of domestic and foreign investors have registered investment projects but have not implemented the projects after many years. (Aug 13, 2007)

Nhan Dan – By December 31, 2007, credit institutions have to reduce their total loans to securities investment to under 3% of their total account outstanding. (Aug 13, 2007)

ASTANA. Aug 13 (Interfax) - Investment in fixed assets in Kazakhstan totaled 1.4982 trillion tenge in January-July, an 11.6% increase year-on-year, the Kazakh state statistics agency told Interfax. (Aug 13, 2007)

Foreign investment pouring into China rose 18 percent in July from a year ago to $5 billion, the government said Monday. (Aug 13, 2007)

KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 13 (Bernama) -- Total investment approved in the manufacturing sector for the first half of this year has already exceeded the annual investment target of RM27.5 billion set under the Third Industrial Master Plan (IMP3). (Aug 13, 2007)

The flood of foreign investment pouring into China rose 18 percent in July from a year ago to US$5 billion, the government said Monday. The number of new foreign-financed companies approved in July fell 1 percent from the same month last year to 2,993, the Commerce Ministry said on its Web site. (Aug 13, 2007)

A Los Angeles investment group has turned up the heat on Regent Communications Inc. (Aug 13, 2007)

(RTTNews) - Sam Stovall, Chief Investment Analyst at the S&P 500, commented on a recent addition to the High Momentum List. Stovall noted that the S&P 1500 Industrial Gasses sub-industry index, which consists of three large and mid-cap companies, Air Products & Chemicals, AirGas Inc and Praxair, has risen 29.6% in the year to August 10th. (Aug 13, 2007)

JPMorgan has enhanced its performance measurement and analytics technology for companies who want to use their own accounting and custody data. ebizQ received the following: JPMorgan has redesigned its Investment Analytics & Consulting ... (Aug 13, 2007)

Nigerians in Diaspora have pledged support for the Nigerian capital market as well as improve investment drive for the country. (Aug 13, 2007)

SINGAPORE: Senior Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Zainul Abidin Rasheed, is in Pekanbaru, the provincial capital of Indonesia's Riau island, to explore investment possibilities. (Aug 13, 2007)

SINGAPORE: Senior Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Zainul Abidin Rasheed, is in Pekanbaru, the provincial capital of Indonesia's Riau island, to explore investment possibilities. (Aug 13, 2007)

A Los Angeles investment group has turned up the heat on Regent Communications Inc. (Aug 13, 2007)

Mariner Financial announced the launch of a the Mariner Coastal Investment Fund to invest in 4 coastal tourist resorts on the East Coast of Australia with a total vale of $70m. MCIF is seeking to raise equity through an offer of 35m stapled securities at $1.00 per stapled security. The offer opens on 14 August 2007. (Aug 13, 2007)

VietNamNet Bridge – At least 40 projects worth tens of billions of USD are coming to Vietnam. Vietnam has been preparing to welcome these new sources of investment. (Aug 14, 2007)

The Japanese government acknowledges that Indonesia has made progress in improving its investment climate so that Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will bring 150 top Japanese business executives in his visit to Jakarta next week, a Japanese official said here on Tuesday. (Aug 14, 2007)

Halle Investment Co. needed just one day to sell all 56 lots at its latest development, the Hartwell subdivision in Collierville - further proof th.... (Aug 14, 2007)

Venture capital firms invested more money than ever before in "information services" companies in Mainland China, as overall venture investment produced 55 deals and reached $560 million during the second quarter of 2007, a 49% increase over the $375 million invested in the first quarter of the year, according to the China Quarterly Venture Capital Report released today by Dow Jones VentureOne, ... (Aug 14, 2007)

MOSCOW, August 14 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's investment index will open Tuesday at 758.93 points, up 1.67 % following Monday evening's sessions on major world trading floors. (Aug 14, 2007)

The WYPF is one of the UK?s largest local authority pension funds with assets over £7.5bn. The Fund has a diverse investment portfolio covering all asset classes and most equity markets. The investment portfolio is actively managed, almost entirely by the in house investment teams. (Aug 14, 2007)

Fidelity International, one of the best-known names in international investment and ICICI Bank, India's second-largest bank, has announced that Fidelity's fund range will now be available to ICICI Bank's Private Banking customers in the Gulf Region. (Aug 14, 2007)

Felix Salmon submits: Commenter tinbox has an interesting take on the news that Goldman Sachs is injecting liquidity into its own hedge funds: It's wildly implausible that anyone looked at Goldman's fund and suddenly decided it is the best investment opportunity on the planet. (Aug 14, 2007)

Aug. 14 (Bloomberg) -- The French economy unexpectedly slowed in the second quarter, hurt by surging imports and lower investment. (Aug 14, 2007)

BEIJING (XFN-ASIA) - Venture capital investment in China during the second quarter of 2007 produced 55 deals worth 560 mln usd, up 49 pct from the first quarter, according to a report jointly released by Dow Jones VentureOne and Ernst & Young. (Aug 14, 2007)

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Global real estate investor LaSalle Investment Management plans to spend $15 billion to buy and develop property in Asia over the next three to five years, the head of its Asian business said on Tuesday. (Aug 14, 2007)

VietNamNet Bridge – Banks have begun taking action to tighten the funding of securities investment deals in order to bring their outstanding loans to stock investors to below 3% of total outstanding loans as the central bank has required. (Aug 14, 2007)

LONDON -(Dow Jones)- Baring Asset Management (Barings) announced Tuesday the appointment of three new investment managers to its Asian investment team based in Hong Kong; Agnes Deng, Adrian Au and Franki Chung. (Aug 14, 2007)

The National Real Estate Investment Club is proudly hosting the "Real Estate Investment Showcase" on Saturday and Sunday August 18th-19th, 8am-8pm, at the Los Angeles Convention Center. (Aug 14, 2007)

BERLIN -(Dow Jones)- Germany needs a plan for regulating investment from foreign-owned funds that meets Germany's needs and is not merely copied from another country, said Juergen Thumann, president of the BDI federation of German industries, Tuesday. (Aug 14, 2007)

SCARBOROUGH Building Society is boosting its presence in Leeds with an investment package totalling more than £500,000. (14/08/2007 13:22:45) (Aug 14, 2007)

Donald A. Guloien, MFC Global Chairman, announced today that Jean-Francois Courville joins MFC Global as President and Chief Operating Officer of MFC Global Investment Management, the asset management arm of the Manulife Financial Corporation. (Aug 14, 2007)

The board of managers of the Sofia heating utility Toplofikatsia presented Tuesday their investment and repairs program for 2007 at a press conference. (Aug 14, 2007)

The Swiss bank said that if the current market turbulence continued throughout the current quarter, it would report weak results from its investment banking arm, which is one of its biggest businesses. (Aug 14, 2007)

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