211% is the growing of equity investments in Europe

Viliyana Filipova — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 12:53:59 +0000

The volume of equity investments in Europe rose by 211 percent in the first half of 2010 on an annual basis, according to a new report. According to data from market research company unquote “value of equity investments during the period reached 25.2 billion compared with 8.1 billion for the same period of 2009. The number of transactions has also observed a significant increase of 23 percent, rising to 555 compared to 451 transactions during the first six months of 2009. Only in the second quarter of 2010 were concluded over 300 transactions, an increase of 18% compared with the first. The volume of transactions was also demonstrated these positive developments, the total value of transactions for the second quarter rose to 13.9 billion by the IRO 11.4 billion for the first, or growth of 22 percent on a quarterly basis, the report . In comparison, the volume in the second quarter of 2009 was 4.8 billion. Momentum in the sector is mainly due to purchases in which the activity increased by 56% to 167 transactions compared with 107 deals for the first six months of last year.
The value of buying four times experienced the growth to 20.7 billion euros from 5.3 mrld. euros for the first half of 2009 volume of these transactions in the second quarter rose to 11.2 billion euros from 9.5 mrld. euro first. The increase in purchases was mainly due to transactions with a single volume between 100 million and 1 billion euro, which was reported growth of 68 percent on a quarterly basis. Still very limited number of transactions worth over 1 billion. In the second quarter of 2010 occurred in only one such transaction. Although Britain remains the most active market in Europe and other established markets like Germany and the Nordic countries have also registered impressive growth.

The price of crude oil stabilized around $ 77 a barrel

Viliyana Filipova — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 07:04:57 +0000

The quotes of the Asian oil trading today remained just below $ 77 a barrel and stopped fall, which at the end of last week saw prices of raw materials, but the stock players after very careful how I move the other two markets – equity and currency. Especially careful they will be in today when the market actually works in the U.S. after official Thanksgiving holiday shopping craze and “Black Friday.” Then I will make clear how the threat reverberated from Dubai, said Reuters. The agency reminds that at the end of last week provoked emirate markets, announced unavailability of the government investment fund Dubai World and its subsidiary development company Nakheel to pay its obligations. According to Bloomberg agency stabilization of oil prices is mainly due to the promise of the other 6 Emirates to help and first decision of the Central Bank of the United Arab Emirates to financially support local businesses if the crisis in the Dubai World overtake them. U.S. light crude oil increased marginally by 0.14 percent to 76.16 a barrel. On Friday last week with quotes for oil delivery in January fell by 2.5 percent and stopped to $ 76.05 a barrel. Bloomberg calculations show that oil notes monthly decline 1.3 percent in November compared to October.
At the opening of trading in London oil variety “Brent with delivery in January decreased slightly, but then rose 17 cents a barrel on Friday compared the quotations and is available now for $ 77.35 a barrel. Another carefully observed account of the market once the dollar’s decline against the euro to $ 1.5048 per euro. Agency Reuters points out that only last full week of November the U.S. currency has lost nearly 1 percent against the euro.

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211% is the growing of equity investments in Europe

The price of crude oil stabilized around $ 77 a barrel