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Norway faces higher borrowing costs next year as the AAA rated nation plans record bond issuance amid a potential drop off in demand from foreign buyers.
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Following is the text of remarks made by Ben S. Bernanke, Chairman, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City Economic Symposium in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
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Downtown Properties Inc., an affiliate of Hong Kong-based fund manager Gaw Capital Partners, bought a building in the City of London financial district leased in part to Jefferies Group Inc.
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Inventiv Health Inc. , the provider of sales and marketing services to science companies, is selling debt as slowed issuance of high-yield, high-risk debt in May will likely interrupt the record pace of earlier this year.
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Norway’s sovereign wealth fund, the world’s second largest, proposed to add infrastructure and private equity investments to increase and safeguard returns on the money it manages for future generations.
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Spokesmen for German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy have said that their bosses won’t talk about euro bonds when they meet today in Paris.
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Ageas said the embedded value of its life insurance business fell last year because of a decline in the value of government bonds, a drop in risk-free rates and lower returns on new contracts.
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When Standard & Poor’s downgraded the U.S. government’s credit rating in August, predictions of serious fallout soon followed.
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Bond investors’ expectations for inflation are probably lower than shown in the Survey of Professional Forecasters compiled by the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, according to researchers at the San Francisco Fed.
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Norway’s $570 billion oil fund may get more leeway to expand into new asset classes such as roads, gas pipelines and unlisted shares as the government switches its top adviser for setting the investor’s guidelines.
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