Financial Mole

The US Dollar gained in overnight trading as a selloff on Asian equities exchanges drove demand for the safety-correlated currency after Japan?s Tankan survey revealed that large companies? capital investment fell the most in nearly a decade in the third quarter.

In this column last week I compared investing to the game of golf. To become successful, both golf and investing require one to minimize mistakes and make fewer mistakes with less severe consequences.

Novelis today marked the official start-up of a major investment at its Nachterstedt plant in Germany, with an opening ceremony attended by customers and other stakeholders.

The state’s new investment officer will be paid $200,000 a year, a more than 20 percent increase over the previous occupant of the job.

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Çѹ·Õè 1 µØÅÒ¤Á 2552 08:27 ¹. Standard & Poor’s investment-grade composite spread expanded marginally by one basis point yesterday to 231 basis points, while its speculative-grade counterpart remained unchanged at 735 bps.

Macquarie Group is set to acquire a specialist US-based global investment bank for $US130 million.

Macquarie Group is set to acquire a specialist US-based global investment bank fo $A149.19 million.

MACQUARIE Group is set to acquire a specialist US-based global investment bank for $US130 million.

Prospective home buyers can protect themselves from an interest rate spike by investing in a mutual fund that tracks rates, or buying options on one of those funds, writes Brett Arends.