From COMPANIES 3:43pm

Olam’s strategy takes note of criticisms

Agribusiness to rein in spending and abandon acquisition

Industry trends

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Many Americans have no idea how to plan for retirement
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FEBRUARY 02: Rev. Jesse Jackson leads a march calling for an end to gun violence from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. College Prep High School to nearby Harsh Park February 2, 2013 in Chicago, Illinois. Hadiya Pendleton was a fifteen-year-old honor student at King School who was shot and killed while hanging out with friends on a rainy afternoon under a shelter in Harsh Park on January 29. A $40,000 reward has been raised to help find her killer. Pendleton was the 44th homicide recorded in Chicago for 2013. ©Getty Gillian Tett 3:41pm

Big companies can help fund small business

Development bank lobbyists want overseas cash piles taxed

A bricklayer adds cement to a brick as he builds a wall for a new home at Bovis Homes Group Plc's Kingsmere residential development in Bicester, U.K., on Friday, Sept. 30, 2011. U.K. mortgage approvals rose to their highest level in 15 months in August as property investors bolstered demand, the British Bankers' Association said. ©Bloomberg From PENSIONS INDUSTRY 1:43pm

Pension funds wary of UK infrastructure

Investors want government to take on some of the risk of investing in new-build projects

From CAPITAL MARKETS 7:50pm

Bank loans pitch faces investor road test

Funds are marketed as an alternative to bonds for the risk averse

From COMPANIES Feb 6, 2013

Investors call for leveraged buyout wave

‘More Dells’ needed to prevent loan scarcity

Alchemy
From LEX Feb 4, 2013

Great rotation: reasons not to believe

Slogan implies a tight connection between demand for bonds and equities

Feb 4, 2013

IPOs outperform already listed stocks

Initial public offerings on London’s main market have outperformed the FTSE 100

From FT TRADING ROOM Feb 4, 2013

Moscow Exchange valued at up to $4.6bn

Kremlin aims for bourse to rival London Stock Exchange

Markets Insight Feb 4, 2013

Brace for a stock market accident

Profits and leverage are locked in a deadly embrace

From COMPANIES Feb 3, 2013

Greek banks lobby to ease bailout terms

Lenders press troika amid failure to attract private sector money

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