Nobody knows better than South Korea how elusive the floor can be when markets are crying fire-sale. Pushed to the wall during the Asia Crisis a decade ago, the country’s banks had their assets priced in the pennies-on-the-dollar range. Here now, with the shoe squarely on the other foot, is Korea Asset Management, a government […]
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Coke pulled off the single largest takeover in Chinese history overnight, offering to buy juice maker Huiyuan for three times what the company was worth. Braving a notoriously difficult foreign M&A environment, where the state dominates the corporate sector and pumps out reams of regulatory red tape and where nationalistic pride often triggers protests when […]
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Updated from 10:24 a.m. EDT Judging by Monday’s big rally, the response to Treasury’s takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac was a resounding success. But one day does not a bull market make and skepticism about a sustainable rally
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It’s sweatervests versus suits. Posterboards versus Excel spreadsheets. A lot of money versus a lot more money…it all boils down to consultants versus investment bankers. Need to know more? The smackdown between the two professions is chronicled on a hip-hop style video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROlDmux7T k4
circulating Wall Street.
Ties and pocket protectors fly as both sides assert their dominance […]
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MySpace chief executive Chris DeWolfe had a hard time getting out of Los Angeles Monday, and thus missed his first expert panel session at the TechCrunch50 conference. As penance, perhaps, Michael Arrington made him do a quick, impromptu fireside chat. De
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This won’t be a revelation to private equity bankers — but August was officially quiet for deals.
The summer month typically marks a dearth of transactions as bankers head out to the beach, but last month was exceptionally slow.
The dollar value of deals involving private equity sank to the lowest for four years, $21.7 billion globally […]
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So far TechCrunch50 has had some glitches. Microphones going in and out, sporadic wifi and even chairs falling off the stage (luckily, it was an empty chair.) But people don’t come to this conference to see glossy production values right? They come for th
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Nobody knows better than South Korea how elusive the floor can be when markets are crying fire-sale. Pushed to the wall during the Asia Crisis a decade ago, the country’s banks had their assets priced in the pennies-on-the-dollar range. Here now, with the shoe squarely on the other foot, is Korea Asset Management, a government […]
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