Walking the tightrope
In yet another sign that today's exuberant market conditions are inducing some strange side-effects - to say nothing of the havoc...
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Regulation Archive
Sector Survey Real Estate
In December, investment guru Warren Buffett auctioned off his wallet for charity. It drew $210,000 – not so much for the leather...
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Anchor in the storm
The internet is obviously changing the way retail investors do business. Parallel to the growth of online brokers is a massive...
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Bidding wars
`Europe's deal frenzy tends to stop at national borders... blocked by age-old nationalistic sentiments,' proclaimed the New York...
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Fast track
The internet. It's certainly the industry of the hour – even, dare I say it, of the millennium. According to Internet.com's...
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Digging deep
Imagine a world in which companies don't know who owns them – an Orwellian nightmare where effective control of your firm lies in...
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Bubble bursting
What a breath of fresh air. Most chief executives are more than ready to tell the market that their companies are not correctly...
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Pump up the volume
George Shaheen must have been feeling a bit giddy when he sat down in October for interviews with Forbes and Business Week. The...
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Three-way fusion
This was a big deal. On August 11, 1999 Alcan of Canada, Pechiney of France and the Swiss Algroup announced that they were...
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