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A share on which to base your dreams?

A share on which to base your dreams?

Follow the Money CleanBiz Asia, Thursday, June 23rd, 2011 It seems not even the prestige of winning, not one, but two high-profile contracts to provide fleets of electric buses to Singapore and Frankfurt could help Chinese rechargeable battery and auto maker BYD Company raise what it expected from the Shenzhen markets. As CleanBiz.Asia pointed...

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Lehman’s fallout on UK business

Finance Week, 15/09/2008 As Lehman’s affair drags global equity markets south and global banks find $70 billion for a bail-out fund, what are the ramifications for UK business? Gerry O’Kane takes a look. The rent-a-quote members of the City of London were remarkably quite on Monday following the news that Lehman Brothers had filed...

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Bonds survive the toughest of times

FT Mandate 28 Feb 2001 Last year saw the Euro make a big impact on the bond markets, while emerging market debt grew in appeal, writes Gerry O’Kane It has been a mixed twelve months for fixed income investment. Traditionally safe US Treasury bills (T-bills) and UK gilts have been through tough times, while...

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Active Strategies – currency hedging that delivers smarter risk management

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Currency Investor, Active currency management is getting a new breath of life. As global economies lurch towards stagnation and the thermometer of equity markets...

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Performance analytics – helping to bring transparency to the FX pricing process

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Currency Investor For years, many professional currency practitioners have seen trustees’ and investment managers’ eyes glaze over when asked two questions: how much they...

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Middle East: regional E-forex perspective

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Gerry O’Kane looks at growth in e-FX throughout the Middle Eastern markets and how resistance to electronic systems is changing rapidly in the fast...

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Timing: – just how important is it for achieving currency alpha?

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Currency Investor, Winter 2010 Within the equities world there has been some discussion over whether market timing is a viable investment strategy or simply...

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