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Lehman Borrowed $18 Billion From Undisclosed Federal Reserve Loan Program – Bloomberg
Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. (LEHMQ)’s brokerage borrowed as much as $18 billion in four separate loans from a previously secret program of the U.S. Federal Reserve in June 2008, three months before its parent filed the biggest bankruptcy in U.S. history. The program, which peaked at $80 billion in loans outstanding, was known as the […]
Posted in: USA
One in Five PE Fund Managers To Go Out Of Business : Coller Survey – VCCircle
June 20, 2011
by Ali Rampurwala
The financial sector might have seen through the headwind of the severe credit crisis with minor bruises, but a shakeout in the private equity industry is now imminent. Investors’ selectivity and concerns about returns will drive 20 percent of private-equity managers out of business, according to a survey by Coller Capital Ltd, a leading global investor in private equity’s secondary […]
Posted in: India
Decoding Jhunjhunwala, India’s Buffett, on market direction – FirstPost
June 20, 2011
by Ali Rampurwala
No one in the market will tell you that stock prices are going to crash. To figure that out, you have to read between the lines when they talk a lot. In a recent interview published by The Economic Times, India’s ace investor Rakesh Jhunjhunwala gave his take on the direction the markets will take […]
Posted in: India
Abracadabra! Magic Trumps Math at Web Start-Ups – NYTimes
June 20, 2011
by Ali Rampurwala
Over a decade ago, Internet companies promoted new ways to measure their business performance, introducing concepts like “eyeballs” and “mindshare” to investors. Now the latest wave of Internet start-ups are adding their own particular yardsticks to the valuation vocabulary. Try “Acsoi” — a metric so new that there’s no agreement on how to pronounce it. […]
Isn’t it time for Asians to live life king-size? – Reuters
June 15, 2011
by Ali Rampurwala
(The views expressed in this column are the author’s own and do not represent those of Reuters) Have you wondered why it is that Asians, even the ones who are affluent, seem to have a lower quality of life than the average guy from the developed world? Now why would that be so? Critics might […]
Posted in: India
Factory floor, not software park, crucial to India growth – Reuters
June 13, 2011
by Ali Rampurwala
If India is to become a manufacturing powerhouse it will need to make things easier for people like Nikhil Nanda, joint managing director of Escorts Ltd, a Delhi-based tractor maker. The company self-generates up to 40 percent of its power, scrambles to find and retain staff to operate increasingly sophisticated machinery, and must ride herd […]
Posted in: India
Once pricey U.S. gasland now looks like a bargain – Reuters
June 13, 2011
by Ali Rampurwala
The gas-rich land of the Marcellus shale has been some of America’s hottest wildcat real estate in recent years. But if Exxon Mobil’s $1.7 billion purchase is any indication, the days of eye-watering prices are over. The oil titan is paying barely half the price such acres were fetching last year, as the frenzy has […]
Posted in: USA
DealBook – Global
- WeWork’s Rise: How a Sublet Start-Up Is Taking Over November 13, 2018
- Paul Volcker, at 91, Sees ‘a Hell of a Mess in Every Direction’ October 23, 2018
- When Business Executives Become Reluctant Statesmen October 16, 2018
- The Unknowable Fallout of China’s Trade War Nuclear Option October 9, 2018
- Diversify the Boardroom, Just Not Like California October 2, 2018
DealCurry – India
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DubaiBeat – Middle East
- Qatar investors acquired stake in US cancer treatment firm for $40 million October 9, 2018
- Saudi investors of PIF to invest $1 billion in US car maker Lucid October 2, 2018
- Bahrain Investcorp acquired German business campus for nearly $100 million September 25, 2018
- Dubai firm DP World acquires $50 million stake in Virgin Hyperloop September 17, 2018
- Saudi investors announced investing in cryptocurrency firm Vertex ICO September 11, 2018
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