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IN A RECENT piece for By Invitation, https://www.economist.com/by-invitation/2022/11/08/vinod-khosla-says-rushing-to-meet-carbon-reduction-targets-by-2030-may-hinder-what-can-be-achieved-by-2050 , a venture capitalist, argued against efforts to maximise carbon reductions by 2030, on the basis that 'hoping to deploy today's innovations [...]

A selection of opinions on the future for mergers and acquisitions by the industry's leading practitioners is presented. Most are optimistic about the situation in 2001 and the future for the market.

Research on the venture investment attitudes of high-net-worth individuals shows that interest in funding entrepreneurial ventures depends on one's investment history. Both active and potential investors prefer investing in later development stages of entrepreneurial ventures and in enterprises that are located relatively near their homes. Potential investors, however, are more inclined to commit smaller amounts of funds and are more likely to consider venture investing as a diversification strategy.

PETROLEUM ECONOMIST: In the international capital markets, spreads and overall pricing have widened in the past year for most industry sectors. But what has been the experience recently in the [...]

Bored and frustrated traders are homesick for grimy, high-tax London HARRY LIME, a racketeer played by Orson Welles in 'The Third Man', remarked that the only cultural legacy of centuries [...]

Byline: Gene Marks Everybody has secrets. J. Edgar Hoover used to keep his enemies' secrets in his FBI files by day and then sometimes secretly wear women's clothing at night. [...]

The textile industry hasn't taken seriously enough the need to really, really cut a lot of costs out...Part of the psychological problem is too many of the textile people simply [...]

All the capital ill the world won't bring a project online if the business strategy is flimsy or the capital provider is a bad match for the company. No matter [...]

Capitalist Doug Johnson is expected to build a bridge between the University of Minnesota and business with a $10 million to $20 million fund. The university's new Office of Business Development will be the most concrete manifestation of the university's effort to reach out to businesses and transform research into jobs.

LOS ANGELES -- The proxy battle for Yahoo got more hostile Monday when Carl Icahn fired off a letter accusing management of misleading employees and failing its investors. Icahn's letter [...]

Conrad Black pronounced on journalists that 'A very large number of them are ignorant, lazy, opinionated, intellectually dishonest and inadequately supervised' before he became a Lord. He got embroiled in a price war with Rupert Murdoch's Times and cut the cover price of The Daily Telegraph and very soon Telegraph shares plunged.

The growing mood of optimism among ,mid-market M&A practitioners looks justified. An analysis of Thomson Financial data reveals that deal volume in important areas is comfortably up on 2002, even [...]

The devaluation of the Canadian dollar in 1998 has been blamed on the Asian and East European currency crisis. However, this analysis is incorrect as currency devaluations are brought about by investors' loss of confidence in a particular currency. These investors withdraw their investments in a country they deem economically unstable and transfer them to less riskier environments. Thus, the rationale behind the slump of the Canadian dollar, in the midst of appreciating European currencies, is local Canadian investors' lack of confidence in their own country's economy and currency.

History reveals that the promise of profit in China and Russia may blind South Korean business enterprises and force them to ignore risks. China and Russia remain dangerous business places mainly because these countries have authoritarian governments that may use the influx of technology to advance their own interests of conquests and disregard the rights of businesses.

NEW YORK -- The growing odds that the proposed cable bill will become law dampened spirits at a meeting of cable financiers, but all said they don't expect re-regulation to [...]

Some say there's a shortage of venture capital. And Seattle venture capitalist Douglas Brown concedes 'the drain on liquidity is very real.' But not acute. In 1987 investors placed a [...]

The Gulf has had very little impact, other than that it has accelerated a situation that sooner or later would have come to the surface anyway. People financing [the industry] [...]

ANY banker who thinks that Mr Donald Trump has learnt from his mistakes had better think again. The owner of casinos in Atlantic City, skyscrapers in New York and the [...]