World Beat
Eco-disaster may spawn eco-city Just off sprawling, smoggy Shanghai, Chongming Island will soon become home to what its backers describe as the world's...
World Beat
Many Americans look at the Middle East primarily as a source of trouble, but it's also a land of opportunity, as C. MacLaine Kenan of Arcapita has found. The Bahrain-based private equity firm has a healthy $2.7 billion balance sheet, and has completed $18 billion in deals over the last decade....
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Nicolas who? Most French business people are practically giddy over the election of Nicolas Sarkozy as their new president. A fiscal conservative, Sarkozy wants to reform the economy in part by cutting income taxes ...
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Dubai developer sells Ireland Just in time for St. Patrick's Day, Dubai developer Nakheel sold Ireland to a group of Irish investors for $38.67 million....
Reinsurer Swiss Re gets out of a pickle
Swiss Re recently sold its landmark building in central London for 600 million sterling, about $1.18 billion...
