09/08/2008
Ben Goldsmith’s Wheb Ventures is aiming to raise £100m (€124m) from institutions for a clean energy fund after ... (eFinancial News)
Ben Goldsmith’s Wheb Ventures is aiming to raise £100m (€124m) from institutions for a clean energy fund after securing £57m from wealthy investors and associates by its first closing date.
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09/08/2008
Paulson May Buy Shares in Struggling Banks, Report Says (New York Times)
Paulson & Company , a prominent New York hedge fund, will weigh buying shares or convertible bonds in banks and other financial institutions that need capital, according to The Financial Times.
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09/08/2008
Nigeria: VC Identifies Challenges of Tertiary Institutions (AllAfrica.com)
The Vice Chancellor, Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH), Ogbomoso, Oyo State, Professor Babatunde Adeleke, has identified under-funding, brain drain and decaying infrastructure as great challenges confronting the educational sector in the country.
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09/08/2008
Hedge fund Paulson to weigh buying bank stocks: report (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Paulson & Co, a prominent New York hedge fund, will weigh buying shares or convertible bonds in banks and other financial institutions that need capital, the Financial Times reported on its website on Sunday.
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09/08/2008
Minister of health urges private doctors to help in public institutions (The Namibian)
Speaking at Oshakati where diamond companies De Beers and Namdeb jointly donated N$800 000 towards the upgrading of the Oshakati hospital's casualty department on Thursday, Kamwi admitted that his Ministry is faced with insufficient resources and a shortage of medical doctors.
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09/08/2008
Global stock markets surge on Fannie/Freddie bailout (Houston Chronicle)
The U.S. Treasury's decision Sunday to take control of the two financial institutions, which own or guarantee about half of U.S. mortgage debt, removes a big cloud that had been weighing on global markets.
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09/08/2008
Radical Options In Play for New Structure of Firms (Washington Post)
Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr.'s rescue plan for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac almost certainly means the two mortgage financiers will cease to exist in their current form, igniting the battle over the future of these giant institutions.
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09/08/2008
Creating Female-Friendly Financial Services Presents Huge Opportunities for Banks and Financial Institutions (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
DUBLIN, Ireland----Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Creating Female-Friendly Financial Services: Strategies, Opportunities and Lessons" report to their offering.
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09/08/2008
Bank Insiders Purchase Own Stock at Fastest Pace in Two Decades (Bloomberg.com)
Sept. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Bank and savings and loan insiders spent more money buying shares of their companies in May, June and July this year than in any previous three months in at least two decades, betting that financial institutions are bouncing back from the credit-market crunch.
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09/07/2008
Fuel is added to French debate over separation of religion and state (International Herald Tribune)
A decision by a French court to postpone a robbery trial involving a Muslim defendant until the end of the holy month of Ramadan has raised questions about whether France's secularist institutions are bending to religious demands.
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