(Bloomberg) — Buyout firms are poised to spend $9 billion in Brazil on everything from infrastructure to oil exploration as the economy recovers from a recession, the nation’s private equity and venture capital association said. Grupo Santander Brasil and San Francisco-based Paul Capital Partners said they may purchase stakes in companies that will benefit from the country hosting the World Cup in 2014 and Olympics in 2016.
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Brazil Buyout Firms Have $9 Billion in ‘Dry Powder’
March 1st, 2010
Before You Invest Europe Commits to Action on Greek Debt Crisis
February 11th, 2010
Before You Invest Herman Van Rompuy, president of the European Council, also said that the European Union would monitor closely Greece’s pledges to reduce its alarming budget deficit, and would propose measures for Athens drawing on the expertise of the International Monetary Fund.
Further work by finance ministers on assistance for Greece, and the conditions that would be attached to any aid, will take place early next week.
U.S. criticizes U.K. proposal to tax financial transactions
November 9th, 2009
Before You Invest Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner voiced disapproval with a proposal from U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown for a tax on financial transactions. Geithner said he would not support the tax but appeared to soften his stance later, saying the International Monetary Fund would be responsible for coming up with possibilities.
International Monetary Fund now estimates global bank losses at $3.4 trillion
November 8th, 2009
Before You Invest The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has reduced its estimate of global bank losses by $600 billion – but warned the new figure of $3.4 trillion could rise further due to high unemployment rates across the world pushing up loan losses.
Rising security values combined with a new way of calculating losses are to thank for the improvement on the original $4 trillion deficit calculated in April.
But the IMF says that around another $1.5 trillion worth of loan writedowns will hit banks by the end of 2010.
Policymakers consider taxing financial transactions
October 12th, 2009
Before You Invest The Economic Policy Institute suggested taxing financial transactions, such as stock trades but not consumer transactions, to raise as much as $150 billion annually. Lawmakers, labor unions, the International Monetary Fund and others support taxing financial transactions as a way reduce budget deficits or fund initiatives, such as health care.
This Day in Wall Street History 1944: Farewell to Bretton Woods
July 23rd, 2009
Before You Invest During the summer of 1944, representatives from 44 nations gathered at a resort hotel in Bretton Woods, N.H., to hash out the global finances for the remaining half of the 20th century.
Cast against the backdrop of World War II, the three-week conference was a striking display of the United States’ swelling political and fiscal might.
China’s GDP to overtake U.S. by early 2020s, says Deutsche Bank
April 24th, 2009
Before You Invest China will overtake the U.S. in terms of economic output within a decade, according to estimates released Thursday by Deutsche Bank, which said it had to accelerate its forecast of the mainland’s leadership in the global economy in view of favorable growth dynamics in emerging markets.
IMF predicts troubled assets could spiral to $4 trillion
April 7th, 2009
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