2014年8月17日 星期日

2014-08-18 Namibia Business

  Sydney Morning Herald   
UPDATE 1-Rio Tinto to review stake in closed Papua New Guinea copper mine  Reuters Africa
... * Rio Tinto in early stages of talks with Bougainville government. * Sale of Bougainville Copper stake an option. * Any reopening of mine would be years away -BCL Chairman (Adds comment from Bougainville Copper chairman). MELBOURNE, Aug 18 ...

Midday: ASX lifts slightly higher   Brisbane Times
Potential $60 Billion Mine in Play Under Rio Stake Review   Businessweek
Rio Tinto may exit Bouganville   Sydney Morning Herald
Herald Sun   
Yahoo Finance UK   
Australian Mining   
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Blackstone, TPG near buying UK subprime mortgage lender -SkyNews  Reuters Africa
Aug 18 (Reuters) - Private equity firms The Blackstone Group LP and TPG Capital Management LP are close to buying subprime mortgage lender, Kensington, Britain's Sky News reported on Sunday. Sky News said the sale of Kensington, owned by ...

Blackstone and TPG near deal for mortgage lender Kensington   Financial Times
Wall Street Giants Swoop On Sub-Prime Lender   Key 103 Manchester

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  Reuters   
Credit Suisse Designed Debt for Espirito Santo Group, WSJ Says  Bloomberg
Credit Suisse Group AG (CSGN) designed securities that were used to finance Espirito Santo companies and sold to clients of Banco Espirito Santo SA, the Portuguese lender that was bailed out this month, the Wall Street Journal reported today.
Credit Suisse played role in Espirito Santo collapse - WSJ.com   euronews

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  Radio New Zealand   
Meridian and Contact Energy profit up  Radio New Zealand
Two of the country's biggest power companies have reported an increase in underlying profit for the year. Meridian Energy made a net profit of $229.8 million in the twelve months to June, a decrease of 22 percent compared with the previous year. But, after ...

Meridian Energy beats prospectus forecast   3News NZ
Meridian profit tops forecasts   The Australian
Meridian Energy posts net profit   Newstalk ZB
National Business Review (subscription)   
Stuff.co.nz   
Reuters Africa   
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  Sydney Morning Herald   
More on BHP Billiton demerger expected in full year report  Australian Mining
BHP Billiton has reiterated its focus on portfolio simplification, with the board meeting this week to discuss strategies to make the company “simpler and more productive”. From a structural perspective BHP said it will focus on the major iron ore, copper, coal, ...

RPT-UPDATE 5-BHP Billiton set to spin off unwanted assets   Reuters
New BHP Billiton $15B Spin-off Company for Unwanted Assets to Set Up HQ in ...   International Business Times AU
BHP set for bumper FY profit   The Australian
Sydney Morning Herald   
Proactive Investors Australia   
Business Review Australia   
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  Leadership Newspapers   
2442 BDCs Meet Recapitalisation Deadline  Leadership Newspapers
Two weeks after the deadline given by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) for bureau de change operators in the country to recapitalise, 2,442 BDCs have raised the N70 million capital and mandatory deposits. The full list of the 2,442 BDCs which would be ...

CBN revokes licences of 766 BDCs   The Punch
Outbound remittance service to reduce forex demand —CBN   Nigerian Tribune
CBN Launches Outbound Money Transfer   The Guardian Nigeria
StarAfrica.com   
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  Independent Online   
Moody's Wrong to Downgrade Capitec as Rival Collapses, SARB Says  Bloomberg
South Africa's Reserve Bank said it disagrees with Moody's Investors Service decision to downgrade Capitec Bank Holdings Ltd. (CPI)'s credit rating after the collapse of rival African Bank Investments Ltd. (ABL). The deposit rating was cut two levels to Ba2 ...

Moody's downgrade of Capitec misguided - SARB   Politicsweb
African Bank rescue rekindles bailout fears   DhakaTribune
Africa's youth boom   Aljazeera.com

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  Gulf Times   
Saudi bourse soars to 6-and-a-half year peak  Saudi Gazette
JEDDAH – Blue-chip stocks lifted Saudi Arabia's bourse to a new six-and-a-half year peak on Sunday, while other Middle East markets were mixed as low volumes led to choppy trading and a lack of clear direction. The Saudi Tadawul All Share Index rose ...

Mesaieed 'will not be added to MSCI index'   Arab News
MPHC shares dip; profit of listed firms at QR21.35bn   Peninsula On-line
MSCI lifts weightings of QNB, IQ, QIB on foreign ownership limit reform   Gulf Times
Reuters   
Economic Times   
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  The West Australian   
After breakups, newspapers seek path forward  Business Recorder
Following an unprecedented series of spin-offs by major US media companies, the print news industry now faces a rocky future without financial support from deep-pocketed parent firms. The wave of corporate breakups comes with newspapers and ...

Corporate break-ups leave newspaper firms without financial support   The Star Online
Threat of US print news industry forever stopping the presses   eNCA

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  Independent Online   
Abil, debt and impoverishment  Independent Online
African Bank Investment Limited and its furnishings retail store, Ellerines, in the Johannesburg CBD. Photo: Simphiwe Mbokazi. The recent implosion of African Bank Investments Limited (Abil) has cast short-term and unsecured lending to the poor back into ...

Entrepreneur lessons from Abil   Moneyweb.co.za
African Bank distances itself from Sokutu's comments   Citizen
African Bank regrets Sokutu Comments   theSouthAfrica
South African Broadcasting Corporation   
Times LIVE   
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