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Hedge fund to invest $500m into carbon capture

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 4 SEP 2008
... utility companies and high level greenhouse gas producing companies like fertilizer and cement manufacturers, according to Bloomberg. Bill Townsend, chief executive of emission credit firm Blue Source, which is 10 per cent owned by Och-Ziff, told Bloomberg ...

Macq bond insurance will diversify group

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUN 2008
... insurers Ambac Financial Group Inc and MBIA Inc among other companies hampered by credit-rating downgrades, reports Bloomberg.

UBS launches soft com and Asia prod

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2008
... commodities and the emerging markets. The UBS Global Access Fund is a structured product that provides exposure to the UBS Bloomberg CMCI Food Excess Return Index comprising of futures contracts from a basket of commodities including wheat, corn, soybeans ...

Investec earnings modest, eyes Aus

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  MONDAY, 19 MAY 2008

Climate change rhetoric unsustainable

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2008
... Australian Industry Group warned that a carbon tax could cost $80 billion in energy projects in Western Australia alone and Bloomberg just a few days ago reported Citigroup to have said carbon could be priced at almost $50 per tonne, almost twice its ...

Sub-prime's house of cards

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2007
... networking budgets as they deal with the fall-out from sub-prime lending and a slow down in construction. According to a Bloomberg report, the mortgage fall-out has seen General Motors report a quarterly loss of $42 billion, about twice its market value ...

Airing the dirty sub-prime linen

SUZY MAC  |  MONDAY, 29 OCT 2007
... parachute to ensure his soft landing, despite the investment bank's recent announcement of spectacular sub-prime losses. As Bloomberg tells it, Merrill Lynch's chief executive officer Stanley O'Neal has "decided to leave", other reports have been less ...

Challenger takes part in $9.5bn infrastructure buy

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 OCT 2007
... Water Capital is the fastest growing of the ten water and sewerage companies in the UK. According to data compiled by Bloomberg, transport and utility industry deals in the world have increased by 23 per cent or by $400 billion this year compared to ...

Chinese walls and windows

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 5 OCT 2007
... the past three years to around A$3.5 trillion with 47 million new trading accounts opened this year. According to a Bloomberg report, inside sources say that new rules to this development have been tabled that will cap foreign holdings at 20 per cent ...

Bear bargains and ambulance chasers

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 27 SEP 2007
... Bear Stearns may not need a cash injection but this speculation has already been good news for its share values, and Bloomberg quoted chief financial officer, Samuel Molinaro as saying "the worst is definitely behind us." Money Magazine editor, Michael ...