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Reuters (Free subscription) | yesterday
LONDON (Reuters) - The United Arab Emirate (UAE) has total debt amounting to $184 billion at the end of 2009, according to estimates by Bank of America-Merrill Lynch, which said the region faces a heavy redemption schedule until 2013. Dubai's shock announcement this week that it is seeking to suspend payments on debt of its state-owned conglomerate Dubai World and property subsidiary Nakheel has roiled...
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Beyond Search (Free subscription) | yesterday
I read “Merrill Lynch: Cloud Computing Market Will Reach $160 Billion…Really'”. Crazy forecasts once were the core competency of 20 year old consultants at down market research firms and crazed MBAs looking for a big win. In my experience, the wacky stuff from the research folks at large, diversified investment firms have some math and [...]
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Times of India (Free subscription) | yesterday
The United Arab Emirate has total debt amounting to $184 billion at the end of 2009, according to estimates by Bank of America-Merrill Lynch.
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broadstuff (Free subscription) | yesterday
Move over Mary Meeker - another Merchant Bank looks like its set to take the Optimistic Overpromotion Crown - Read Write Web: ......we have to wonder about the estimates from Merrill Lynch, which is estimating the cloud computing market to reach $160 billion by 2011.The estimate includes $95 billion in business and productivity applications. This beats the previous record by Gartner, of $150bn by 2013...
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JSOnline (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
Software provider RedPrairie said it has registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission to sell stock to the public through an initial public offering. In an announcement late Wednesday evening, RedPrairie Holding Inc. said the company and certain of its stockholders would sell an undetermined number of common shares to the public. It also said the investment banks underwriting the stock sale...
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Daily Kos (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
On this early morning of the Thanksgiving holiday, let us give thanks for the political rumor mill. The rumor mill this week has been deliciously bountiful, having churned out a beaut from the Empire State. Consider this bit of 2010 speculation an early feast for political junkies: a Democratic Senator in a blue state. Getting primaried. From the right. By a former Congressman and statewide candidate....
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Institutional Financial Derivatives (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
The concentration of the credit- default swaps market in the hands of a few players is increasing risk and should be remedied by more transparent reporting, according to Celent. Five banks including Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and JPMorgan Chase & Co. accounted for about 90 percent of the credit-default swaps market in 2009, the Boston-based research firm said in a Nov. 25 report. “The leading...
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Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
SINGAPORE/MUMBAI, Nov 26 (Reuters) - Nomura has hired senior Bank of America-Merrill Lynch banker Nipun Goel as head of its Indian investment bank, three sources with direct knowledge of the move said.
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Institutional Financial Derivatives (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
Taxpayers may have spent $13 billion more than necessary when government officials, acting in private, struck deals with big banks on AIG’s credit-default swaps. In the months leading up to the September 2008 collapse of giant insurer American International Group Inc., Elias Habayeb and his colleagues worked nights and weekends negotiating with banks that had bought $62 billion of credit-default...
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PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
MINNEAPOLIS, Nov. 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Alliant Techsystems (NYSE: ATK) will webcast the remarks of its Interim Chief Executive Officer, Mr. John Shroyer, when he appears at the Bank of America Merrill Lynch Credit Conference on Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009 and at the Credit Suisse Aerospace and Defense Conference on Thursday, December 3rd, 2009.
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ReadWriteWeb (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
The estimates for cloud computing can make you wonder sometimes about what to believe. Analyst firms and it looks like investment houses, can be notorious for wild estimates about market sizes. So we have to wonder about the estimates from Merrill Lynch , which is estimating the cloud computing market to reach $160 billion by 2011.The estimate includes $95 billion in business and productivity applications....
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Maritime News (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Growing world oil use will likely outpace the rate of new supplies in 2010, eroding the huge stockpiles of crude which have mounted around the world since the start of the global economic crisis. According to a Reuters poll of ten top oil-tracking analysts and organizations, oil demand is predicted to rise by 1.3 million barrels per day (bpd) next year to 85.9 million bpd. At the same time, the rise...
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Swing State Project (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
? AR-Sen : Could Arkansas even handle one more Republican in its Senate field, without the entire state collapsing into a singularity? Looks like we'll find out, as former state Sen. Tim Holt says he's considering a rematch. Holt, you'll recall, was Lincoln's 2004 opposition, coming within 56-44 while running a low-budget, socially conservative campaign. ? AZ-Sen, AZ-Gov : The Cronkite-Eight Poll (conducted...
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neilsamsung | 25/09/2009
Property prices are rising fast as the tech boom spreads across the country. When Farallon Capital Management, a U.S. hedge fund, and its joint-venture partner, Indiabulls, snapped up an 11-acre property in central Mumbai in March 2005 for $54.5 million an acre, the purchase was called an act of idiocy by local developers. A few months later, when the same joint venture offered $95.5 million an acre...
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