Regional News

India Investment Drop

July 24, 2011
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India Investment Drop

Last month saw an all-time foreign institutional investment (FII) drop in India through participatory notes (P-Notes).  As a recent report detailed in Business Standard noted, the figures dropped to less than 10 percent for “the first time since 2003.”  According to director of institutional equities and chief strategist of Padmakshi Financial Services, Sailav Kaji, “many P-Note investors had built up short positions in the earlier months. These shorts would have got squared off in the rally and internally adjusted,”...

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PTT Pcl Investment Plans

July 21, 2011
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PTT Pcl Investment Plans

The PTT Pcl has big plans. The firm – Thailand’s largest energy firm and third largest oil and gas company according to market value – has plans for investments of $100bn in the next decade.  According to the company’s Chief Executive Prasert Bunsumpun, at the end of this, it is anticipated that annual group revenue will reach $200bn.  The company controls over “30 petroleum, gas exploration, petrochemical and refinery businesses.” Spending Plans So, the next question is, how would...

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Vietnamese Investment Interests

July 17, 2011
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Laos, Land of Opportunity? Just yesterday, a seminar took place on investment possibilities and cooperation at the Laos Vietnamese embassy.  Over two hundred Vietnamese business representatives were in attendance.  Ta Minh Chau, Vietnamese Ambassador, addressed the seminar and pointed out that Laos is a “peaceful country” with huge potential in many areas, especially financial.  Vietnam and Laos have a “special relationship,” with significant support from the Lao Government that has worked hard to establish optimistic and facilitative conditions for...

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Big Burmese Bucks

July 14, 2011
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In the last year, Burma was the recipient of $20bn in foreign investments.  Not only is this figure alone  impressive, but it is a huge development when looking at last year’s figure which was $302m. So where did all of this money come from? Well, according to a recent BBC News article, it seems the Chinese are pretty big fans of Burma, making the largest investment of foreign countries, mainly in power-based projects.  Indeed, according to another Chinese-investment-based news...

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Big Bahrain Banknotes

July 12, 2011
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Big Bahrain Banknotes

Good times in Bahrain vis-à-vis its business sector. Recent news from the region is that according to a Yahoo news article, its “business firm sector saw strong first quarter growth with an increase of more than 40 percent in managed assets compared to last year.”  Principle investments also jumped the equivalent of $325.22m.  According to Rahman Al Baker (CBB Executive Director of Financial Supervision), “this sector has shown substantial growth since its inception and still is promising further growth...

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Bulgarian-Turkish Investment

July 10, 2011
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According to a recent report from Bulgarian News Agency BTA, Trakia Glass Bulgaria which is owned by Sisecam (a Turkish-owned glass-maker) – is due to make a $60m investment “in capacity expansion in 2012.” As reported in a news article on the web, these funds will be put towards “increasing the capacity of an existing tableware furnace and opening a second furnace at its plant near Bulgaria’s northeastern town of Turgovishte.”  This upgrade will do a lot.  Indeed, the...

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Good News for Indian Economy

July 7, 2011
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Good News for Indian Economy

When a country gets a big investment, not only is it good for the company bringing the capital, it’s also great for the recipient country.  Thus, both India and Tata Consultancy Services (TCS)  should be smiling right now, according to a recent report in Money Control.  The AMR contract (automation of metering and billing) has just been awarded to TCS “of high tension industrial consumers in Haryana.” According to “an official spokesman of power distribution company Uttar Haryana Bijli...

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India Gets Mega Software Investment

July 5, 2011
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When you have money, you can use it to make more money.  That’s how the rich get richer.  And it seems that the largest software services provider in India – Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) – is doing just that.  For the 2011-12 financial year, TCS will be making an investment of Rs 2,300 crore.  Nonetheless, in a report in Money Control, it seems that the company was questioned as to why it hadn’t given out a special dividend.  To...

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The Changing Face of the Chinese Economy

July 5, 2011
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Many investment partners today have their eyes on China.  And for good reason.  Consumer spending in China is predicted to come close to doubling by 2015 in the retail sector alone, according to a new report by the Chinese Academy of Social Science (CASS).  And this comes on the back of spending that has already been increasing a great deal, as companies like ARC Investment Partners have noted. From 2006 to 2010, retail spending saw an average growth rate...

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POW Wow Goes East?

July 3, 2011
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It seems like Spiderman may be climbing the Great Wall China in the near future.  Apparently, as reported in a recent Google news article, POW Entertainment creator Stan Lee has just joined up with an investment company in Hong Kong “that aims to roll out a new superhero franchise targeted at Chinese and foreign audiences.”  Magic Storm Entertainment is the name of the new company that is set to work on its “first film project later this summer.”  Lee...

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