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Updated 21 minutes ago
Two United Arab Emirates banks raised $1.3 billion from bonds sales and Morocco plans to boost the size of its existing dollar-denominated notes as Middle East issuers take advantage of falling borrowing costs.
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Updated 7 minutes ago
Government bonds should be excluded from the European Union’s planned financial-transaction tax because the levy would drive up sovereign borrowing costs, a panel of European debt-management officials said.
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Updated 20 minutes ago
Iceland’s new government is turning its back on the European Union and will shelve accession talks that started in 2010 as the nation seeks to protect its economic recovery from the debt crisis.
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Commodity Futures Trading Commission investigators are poring over 1 million e-mails and instant messages as part of their price-manipulation probe of a swaps benchmark that helps determine interest rates on everything from annuities to bonds linked to skyscrapers.
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Clondalkin Industries BV, a Dutch manufacturer and supplier of packaging products, is seeking commitments tomorrow from lenders on $490 million in loans to refinance debt, according to two people with knowledge of the transaction.
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Credit downgrades, recession and President Francois Hollande’s gaping budget shortfall have done little to prevent French bonds from outshining gold.
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The U.S. Supreme Court bolstered the authority of federal administrative agencies, upholding Federal Communications Commission deadlines for local zoning authorities considering applications for new wireless facilities.
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Sales of corporate bonds in the U.S. are surging toward the busiest May ever as borrowers race to the market before demand dries up with Bill Gross and Warren Buffett cautioning against buying debt at all-time low yields.
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Updated 1 hour, 7 minutes ago
Swedish Finance Minister Anders Borg said he won’t cave to pressure from banks or the European Union to harmonize standards and insists capital ratios in the largest Nordic economy need to be higher than those elsewhere.
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U.S. billionaire Wilbur Ross said he will consider investing in Spanish banks amid signs the country is following Ireland in starting “to come to grips” with its financial crisis.
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