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BusinessWeek
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Behind the feel-good hype of carbon offsets, some of the deals don't deliver
The organizers of the Academy Awards declare all their celebrity presenters to be "carbon-neutral." Vail Resorts Inc. (MTN) in Colorado boasts that its chairlifts and lodges a..
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BusinessWeek
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Debt issued for recent buyouts is fast losing value. That could hurt private equity funds—and their investors
Contrarian investor Sam Zell rarely bets on an easy turnaround. That's good, because his $12.7 billion buyout of Tribune Co. (TRB) could be..
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BBC News
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The trader at the centre of an investigation into losses at Societe Generale has admitted to hiding deals, according to the Paris prosecutor.
Jerome Kerviel told police he concealed his actions to "appear like an exceptional trader and earn higher bonu..
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BusinessWeek
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With corporate spending slowing, big tech outfits seek the smaller prey. Oracle's and Sun's deals highlight the consolidation wave
The signs should be pretty familiar by now. Looming recession. Slowing corporate tech spending. It has all the makings of..
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Washington Post
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The severe turmoil in the credit markets last week has raised serious questions about the future of the buyout craze that gave rise to the biggest deals in U.S. corporate history.
For the past few years, a group of elite Wall Street players have been b..
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Washington Post
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Carlyle Group yesterday announced that it was purchasing Manor Care, a nursing-home operator, for $6.3 billion, the latest in a recent string of multibillion-dollar deals involving the District private-equity giant.
Shareholders in the Toledo health-ca..
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BusinessWeek
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Deals that fund, then buy out, big life policies may shortchange seniors
The deal offered to affluent seniors sounds awfully good: two years of free life insurance, plus a luxury car, a cruise, or a cash payment. All you have to do is take out a multim..
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BBC News
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Global charity Oxfam has launched a wide-ranging attack on the rise of bilateral and regional trade deals.
In its Signing Away The Future report, Oxfam claims that developed nations are using low-profile talks to sidestep their international trade obli..
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Bloomberg
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President George W. Bush's campaign to turn Iran into an economic pariah is being rebuffed from Spain to Malaysia as countries and companies pursue long-term agreements to tap into the world's second-largest reserves of oil and gas.
Royal Dutch Shell P..
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