. * Global ECM at $835.6 bln YTD in ’10 * 60% of IPO activity from Asia Pacific Equity capital markets bankers are bracing for a busy 2011 during which fund flows
. Investors are entering 2011 in a relatively bullish mood, raising equity holdings to a 10-month high, increasing exposure to high-yield credit and cutting back on government debt, according to a Reuters
. British fund managers upped their exposure to UK equities during December, buoyed by hopes of bumper dividends from cash-rich companies and expectations of a 2011 takeover boom, a Reuters poll has
. What's your idea of a romantic Christmas? For Japanese couples it's often dinner and a movie — yet many will likely forego a big evening on the town this year in
. U.S. businesses are heartened by President Barack Obama's push to extend Bush-era tax cuts, but they are not ready to declare a breakthrough in an often-tense relationship with the White House.
. Shanghai native Wu Xiaodong has a solid job as a human resource supervisor in a technology company and earns around 4000 yuan ($600) a month. But he is still single at
. Key heavyweight lenders in Spain, Italy and Greece are due a share price revival after being oversold when they were tarred by the same brush as sovereign debt issued by those
. Before there was an Apple, store under a giant futuristic cube near New York's Central Park or beneath a sleek glass cylinder in Shanghai, there was "store 001" on the second
. FIFA has put to bed the thorny subject of World Cup hosting for the foreseeable future and will now have time to ponder its own path forwards after a tumultuous couple
. This year is set to be among the three warmest since records began in 1850 and caps a record-warm decade that is a new indication of man-made climate change, the United
