Category : Finance News

Corporate Finance: EnCore Oil to be sold to Premier Oil

Corporate Finance: EnCore Oil to be sold to Premier Oil

Corporate finance news publications were recently abuzz with reports of EnCore Oil, a North Sea oil exploration company, being acquired by Premier Oil for £221 million. The EnCore board had put forth a recommendation of 70p per share, giving shareholders a chance to accept either hard cash or new stocks in Premier. Shares in EnCore [...]

Corporate Finance | S&P Considers Cutting Bond Rating for News Corp

Corporate Finance | S&P Considers Cutting Bond Rating for News Corp

According to corporate finance watchdogs, with News Corp. (NWS) showing record-high credit-default swaps in comparison to other media concerns — and in the aftermath of the phone-hacking scandal — Standard & Poor’s may end up cutting down the publishing giant’s bond rating. Corporate Finance | News Corp’s Rising Problems News Corp, which owns Fox TV [...]

Corporate Finance | Sprint Looks At Greener Pastures as Clearwire Debt Indicates Distress

Corporate Finance | Sprint Looks At Greener Pastures as Clearwire Debt Indicates Distress

Corporate Finance News Corporate finance experts warn that bonds of Clearwire Corp. (CLWR), the company which will be completely sapped of cash by 2012 according to Standard & Poor’s, are already beginning to show symptoms of impending default. That is even as partner, and Clearwire’s largest stakeholder, Sprint Nextel Corp. has, in the typical fashion [...]

Icemaker Facing Heat Over Finances

Icemaker Facing Heat Over Finances

The current wave of North American heat may be too little too late to save the Winnipeg Arctic Glacier from a different financial ties. After enduring three years of legal challenges, the operating profit of packaged ice company collapsed so badly, that is about to default on the part of its senior debt. The company [...]

Grants to Obtain Corporate Finance Wings

Grants to Obtain Corporate Finance Wings

The exchange will create separate departments in Corporate Finance this month in accordance with a directive of the regulator of stock markets to ensure corporate governance and to bring more transparency among listed companies. The initiative, designed to make concessions of principal regulator, will also help investors obtain financial information or disclosure of the company [...]

Key Question Now is Finding the Finance

Key Question Now is Finding the Finance

The decision to install the new National Children’s Hospital next to the Mater on the north side of Dublin has been dogged by controversy since it was announced in 2006. Hours of talk time and newspaper printing hectares have been allocated to the various arguments for and against the chosen site. Many people have expressed [...]

Big Drop in Housing Finance

Big Drop in Housing Finance

Loans for new homes in Tasmania have drop to their lowest level in three years. The Tasmanian Housing Industry Association says over the March quarter the total number of loans for construction and purchase of new houses dropped 13.5 per cent. The association’s Stuart Clues says tougher lending requirements from banks will mean less work [...]

Is corporate Canada too cautious?

Is corporate Canada too cautious?

In the wake of the Great Depression, Canada has been repeatedly praised by the conservative funding system that gets the economy to slip through the recession relatively unscathed. But our conservative corporate cultures an obstacle to economic activity? An expert panel at the recent Euro money Forum Canada shared the expectations of Canadian companies in [...]

Consumer Finance Agency Nears Mortgage ‘Prototype’

The new U.S. Consumer Finance Monitoring will start next month to test a new version of the standard mortgage disclosure form to monitor the implementation of the University Agency said Monday. The proposed reform of the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act, or RESPA, the shape was a priority for protecting consumer financial office, over enhanced [...]

Govt Makes Big Losses on Mutual Finance

Govt Makes Big Losses on Mutual Finance

The beneficiaries of corporate finance defective Auckland Mutual Finance that the government can’t go back to 40-53 percent of the amount paid to its debenture holders provided below guarantee scheme of retail deposits. Mutual Finance went under in July last year after violating its debenture trust deed and trustee receivers Grant Graham and Brendon Gibson [...]