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January 10th, 2007

London shares close lower, weak resource sector offsets retail gains


Forbes – Broker comment hit HSBC, down 9-1/2 at 943 as ABN Amro downgraded the bank to ’sell’ from ‘hold’ on valuation. The broker expects the group’s bad placing, announced yesterday, of a 21.3 pct stake in the group – by funds advised by private equity

Market report: Monday latest
This is Money – speculators still see the leisure company a potential takeover target for a private rose sharply in anticipation of an imminent cut in interest rates by the Bank of The biggest faller in the Hang Seng index was China Mobile , off 2.2%, while HSBC

Multi-manager funds seen growing in Asia
Reuters UK – said Joanna Munro, global chief investment officer at HSBC Investments, the fund management arm of Europe’s biggest bank, HSBC products, including absolute return oriented products that have a broad range of asset classes, such as property, private

Fitch Assigns HSBC Mortgage Corporation (USA) ‘RPS2+’ Residential
Forbes – Headquartered in Depew, NY, HMC is a wholly owned subsidiary of HSBC Bank USA N.A., which is a subsidiary of HSBC, and and global resource opportunities and developing expanded product offerings such as home equity lines of credit and private

Forward Calendar – U.S. corporate bond new issues
Reuters – gathered from IGM CorporateWatch, and other market sources: *Denotes 144a private Corp $150 mln 30-yr Aaa/AAA/NA GS 12/12 Bank of 12/14 PPL Energy Supply $300 mln 30-yr Baa2/BBB/BBB+ BNP/GS/HSBC 12

January 10th, 2007

January 10th, 2007

January 10th, 2007

London shares higher midmorning as BP blues offset by miners

January 10th, 2007

FOCUS High street discounting may be enough to prevent CPI inflation

January 10th, 2007

Correction: The Year Broadway Was Worth the Ovation

January 10th, 2007

Intelsat unit to offer $600 mln notes due 2015

January 10th, 2007

Mediacom Communications Announces Participation in Investor

January 10th, 2007

January 10th, 2007

Growth in region’s bank deposits is slowed by a lull in housing