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Assets in Hedge Funds’ Managed Accounts to Rise Nearly 70% by 2011

added: 06-11-2009

The hedge fund industry, putting the frightening days of 2008 far behind them, are taking a series of steps to recapture assets. Addressing concerns over transparency, liquidity and fraud are top of the list announced in a new study published by TABB Group, the capital markets research and consulting firm.

Global Outsourcing Market Drops 10 Percent

added: 06-11-2009

North American banking and financial services firms signed twice as many outsourcing deals in the third quarter as compared to the second quarter this year, according to the Market Vista: Q3 2009 report by Everest, a global consulting and research firm. Everest’s quarterly study on global outsourcing and offshoring activity reports transaction volume decreased 10 percent globally in the third quarter compared to the previous quarter, while captives activity was at an 18-month high.

Unpaid Bills that Push Small Firms into Bankruptcy

added: 06-11-2009

Company cash-flows would be boosted by tens of billions of euros if their bills were paid within 30 days. Making sure this happens is the aim of an update to the directive on late payments in business transactions currently being scrutinised by the European Parliament.

Bankrate: Mortgage Rates Hold Steady

added: 06-11-2009

The average conforming 30-year fixed mortgage rate was unchanged at 5.35 percent, according to Bankrate.com's weekly national survey. The average 30-year fixed mortgage has an average of 0.31 discount and origination points.

An EU27 Surplus in Trade in Goods with India of 2.1 bn euro in 2008

added: 05-11-2009

Between 2000 and 2008, EU27 trade in goods with India more than doubled in value: exports rose from 13.7 billion euro to 31.6 bn, while imports increased from 12.8 bn to 29.5 bn. As a result, the EU27 surplus in trade with India increased from 0.8 bn in 2000 to 2.1 bn in 2008. India accounted in 2008 for 2.4% of EU27 exports and 1.9% of EU27 imports, and was the EU27's 10th most important trading partner.

Transition since Fall of Berlin Wall Shapes Today’s Crisis and Recovery in Emerging Europe and Central Asia

added: 05-11-2009

The economic policy choices made by some countries of Europe and Central Asia (ECA)during the transition from centrally planned to market economies contained the seeds of vulnerability when facing the global economic crisis, and are also likely to shape the recovery, says a new World Bank report issued on the eve of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Fitch: Signs of Stabilisation in Bank Systemic Risk

added: 05-11-2009

Fitch Ratings notes that although it is premature to say that bank systemic risk is easing, it is showing signs of stabilizing, albeit at a high risk level. In its latest semi-annual 'Bank Systemic Risk' (BSR) report, Fitch says that for the first time since the report was published in 2005, the changes in systemic risk indicators are relatively few and largely reflect technical changes rather than underlying changes in risk.

CO2 Emission Trading: Free Allowances for Industries that Might Otherwise Leave the EU

added: 05-11-2009

Industries that might leave the EU and hence escape its CO2 emission trading rules, could get up to 100% of their CO2 emission allowances for free, to encourage them to stay. A list of industry sectors and sub-sectors to be eligible for free allowances under the revised Emission Trading System (ETS) from 2013 was backed by the Environment Committee on Wednesday, in a bid to prevent relocation-driven "carbon leakage".

Industrial Pproducer Prices Down by 0.4% in Euro Area in September 2009

added: 05-11-2009

In September 2009 compared with August 2009, the industrial producer price index fell by 0.4% in the euro area (EA16) and by 0.7% in the EU27. In August, prices increased by 0.5% in both zones.

Autumn Forecast 2009-2011: EU Economy on the Road to a Gradual Recovery

added: 04-11-2009

The Commission's autumn forecast projects that the EU economy will emerge from recession in the second half of this year, although for 2009 as a whole, GDP is still set to fall by some 4%. A gradual recovery is expected with GDP forecast to grow by ¾% in 2010 and around 1½% in 2011.

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