Mergers and acquisitions worldwide reported the worst first half in 2010, six years and to the Debt Crisis in Europe and the uncertain economic recovery prospects for second half were also disappointing. Since the beginning of the year to June 22 transactions were worth slightly less than 976 billion dollars, according to Thomson Reuters, which is half as compared to their volume in the first half of 2007, as reported peak of mergers and acquisitions. Worst presented Europe, where half the transactions in mergers and acquisitions is less than ten years. In the region recorded a decline from 23 percent of these transactions on an annual basis to 227 billion dollars. Strong downward pressure was the failed deal to buy Asian division of AIG by the British insurer Prudential. In the U.S. the picture is not as bleak as in the first half mergers and acquisitions in the country have fallen by “only” 5 percent to 339 billion dollars. There are six made the top ten deals this year.
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Only a month after U.S. stock indexes reached their highest levels for the past 18 months, sales of shares withdrew all their advantage this year, the euro fell to a four-bottomed against the U.S. dollar. Economic uncertainty in Europe and transfer the debt crisis of the mortgage market to market government bonds rose and the gold price to record. In this spirit, with strong sales and began today’s session on Wall Street, the three major indexes losing more than 3 percent of its value in morning trading. Dow Jones Industrial Average, which brings together 30 most traded and liquid stock companies, sank a 3% to 10 128.92 points and Nasdaq Exchange main index Nasdaq Composite lost 3.3% to 2 223.15 points one hour after the beginning of the session. Meanwhile, the broad measure of stock S & P 500 retreated 3.2 percent to 072.68 points to a mostly under the weight of financial and extractive sector. The dollar advanced by 0.3% against the euro by 0.7% against the pound and 2 percent against its Australian names.
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The U.S. plans to circulate a new 100-bill. According to information circulated in Washington, the model will be presented to the public on 21 April at a special ceremony in Washington. The presentation will be attended by Finance Minister Timothy Gaytnar, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and the head of the secret services in the country Mark Sullivan. The U.S. government usually decides to renew the design of the currency after a careful assessment of the situation around the production of counterfeit money and the risk of occurrence of “Fake”, as created by digital copying and printing with traditional methods. Following the entry into circulation of the new 100-bill, citizens will be informed that all U.S. banknotes are legal tender in any year of printing and old banknotes will need to be replaced with new, state authorities. The presentation of the new design of 100-dollar bills to the start of a global information campaign on the initiative of the authorities. The aim of the campaign will be to inform the holders of 100-dollar bills on the specifics of the new design before the official circulation of the revised bill.
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The Charges are taken to advise investment banks in the Asia-Pacific region in the third quarter reached its highest value of 2 years, says Dow Jones Newswires. This happened thanks to a large number of companies completed initial public offering (IPO), as well as those seeking refinancing. Occurred due to fears of economic crisis out of a regulated market does not reflect the strong companies in the region for the past quarter. Only in the third quarter different companies are assembled from an initial public offering 31.1 billion, an amount that a scraper for all in 2008. The rise of these revenues increased by 50% speed of capital markets in the region. Thus the income of the investment banks for the period rose to 3.1 billion dollars and the highest quarterly level since the last quarter of 2007, when those revenues were $ 3.5 billion.
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