In France lofty tax hikes have already been curbing high-end activity and suppressing prices, according to Savills.
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For one thing, beyond the immediate calendar, participants say that front-end activity for new LBOs has waned, suggesting that new-issue supply may be headed lower in April.
Another market that has been flooded with high-end investment activity is indeed Miami.
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But the end of that flurry of activity is just the beginning of the next, more amorphous phase of budgeting.
That's why we see the flurry of activity at the end of the year, when members of Congress want to get home for the holidays.
Some, however, found themselves obsessing over the end transaction and unable to enjoy the activity.
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Should the stock continue to climb higher, it could end up benefiting from short-covering activity during the next few months.
Still, hiring by these private firms is weak, especially given how much economic activity has occurred since the end of the recession.
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Marks, Managing Partner at High Rock Partners, he told me we are heading into a period, where there will be a big push for transactions to close before the end of the year especially since deal activity was muted during the first two quarters of 2010.
For one thing, as of the end of third quarter 2008, global debt underwriting activity was down 46% from a year ago.
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"Billionaire activity has been concentrated on high-end urban centers rather than leisure properties in the surrounding countryside or regional sunbelts, " said Yolande Barnes, head of world research at Savills.
Japan was, pre Friday expected to grow by 1.5% this year, however, whilst Q2 and Q3 will take a dent, the activity from reconstruction will mean that by the end of Q4 the Japanese numbers will not be too far off the mark.
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So without prejudging what might happen over the course of the next 10 or 11 days, I think we saw -- usually these things, there's a flurry of activity as we get a bit closer to the end of that.
But for our money, it is the easy Fed, the end of the panic and accounting rules reform that is boosting economic activity.
If you include early pre-market activity, RIM shares are up over 50% since the end of October.
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