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Miles Costello and David Robertson The appetite for flotations on the London Stock Exchange is ready to spring back to life with a clutch of companies worth a combined $10 billion (£6 billion) planning to list their shares....
Gilts Gilt futures gained a quarter-point after share prices reversed earlier gains and year-end supply factors continued to boost demand for government debt. The December gilt future was up 26 ticks at 118.89. Ten-year gilt...
Private equity giant Blackstone is gambling on an audacious eleventh hour intervention in the massive £2.5bn debt restructuring at beleaguered bookmaker-to-bingo group Gala Coral. Full house: Blackstone, the private-equity...
Yuzawa, Japan, one hour and 20 minutes from Tokyo by bullet train Yuzawa is renowned in Japan as the place where more snow falls than anywhere else on earth and as the setting for Snow Country, the appropriately named first...
DISCOUNT clothing retailer Matalan has drawn interest from at least five major buy-out firms in the opening stages of a £1.5 billion auction, it was reported today. Private equity buyers TPG, Blackstone, Warburg Pincus, BC...
Nov 21 2009 by Sion Barry, Western Mail BUSINESS in the Community has announced it will launch a South and West Wales ProHelp network. Established in 1989, ProHelp is a UK network of over 600 professionals, from large...
Environment Editor Tony Henderson talks to a moth man with a mission. AN unlikely mix of moths and marriage make up Keith Regan’s livelihood. Keith, who lives in Whitley Bay, worked as a production manager at a Cramlington...
ST. PAUL, Minnesota (Reuters) - Minnesota businessman Tom Petters made a final push on Friday to convince a federal jury he was not responsible for a $3.65 billion Ponzi scheme that bankrupted his company.
Warren Buffett's flip-flop could bring new investors to Berkshire and more volume to its shares. When the world's greatest investor announced he was buying a railroad to add to his conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway, few of Warren...
By Mike Hughlett Tribune reporter It's increasingly looking like Northfield-based Kraft Foods Inc. may end up in a bidding war with Hershey Co. for British confectionery giant Cadbury PLC. Citing unnamed sources, the Wall...
