JAPAN: Grassroots activism aids corporate governance

Increasing pressure from institutional and individual shareholders is causing Japanese companies...

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UNITED STATES: Fed struggles to manage expectations

Wall Street's disappointment at the Fed's failure to reduce interest rates by 50 basis points,...

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Korea Exchange Bank (KEB) is negotiating with US-based Lone Star Funds to sell a major equity...

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Standard & Poor's yesterday downgraded the credit rating of Singapore Telecommunications...

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JP Morgan and Morgan Stanley are launching a series of credit-derivative indices aimed at...

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Oil giant Yukos yesterday denied reports that its takeover of Sibneft might fail. The...

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Over 20 items of economic data were released on July 31-August 1. The data provide a useful...

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Evidence suggests that externally managed funds do not invest in firms that allocate resources to...

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A significant number of 'oligarch' conglomerates, although they have some resource interests,...

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The charges brought by the Russian procuracy against oil company Yukos raise doubts about the...

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