August was a bad month for U.S. equities, while gold and many foreign equity markets rose.
NYSE, now with Euronext under its belt, is seen buying a U.S. futures exchange or another foreign equity exchange.
On the financial front, foreign equity players were allowed to help clean up the banking system and to restructure bubble assets.
This week, along with the measures to stimualte the economy, he announced a loosening of the regulations on foreign equity ownership.
The government also imposes caps on portfolio investments, within the FDI caps or separately, to cap total foreign equity in certain sectors.
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He emphasized domestic and foreign equity funds, both load and no-load, which are four times more profitable for Federated than money market funds.
The rest of the package includes short-term incentives for investors, such as a three-year corporate tax exemption, 100% foreign equity ownership, and domestic market access.
Foreign equity markets are thinner than those of the U.S. and more likely to get 'booked up' over time for foreign firms with annual, large-scale funding requirements.
Under Malaysian regulations, foreign equity ownership in insurance companies, investment banks and Islamic lenders is capped at 70%, while non-Malaysians can own up to 30% in conventional banks.
Foreign equity markets should return near U.S. markets, although Europe may have the best shot for outperforming because it has been beaten down due the Greece default and other weak Eurozone nations.
ADRs aren't immune from currency swings, but they facilitate the trading of foreign equity in the U.S. Such shares spare American investors the expense of trading on foreign exchanges or the hassle of converting currencies.
Putting aside for a moment the moral and security dimensions of this matter, I use the term "material" with regard to these non-financial concerns because of the advent of South African apartheid-type divestment campaigns and the prospect of economic sanctions against proliferators or other offenders which could impact adversely on the value of foreign equity and debt holdings (e.g. the Talisman case).
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The government is eager for foreign investment, and recently lifted foreign-equity caps for certain services.
Ask any foreign private equity firm, and they will tell you that they would like to find more investments in the country.
Seeing the writing on the wall, Mr Muntefering had tried to blame foreign private equity investors for Germany's economic ills, labelling them "locusts" who were asset stripping companies, sparking large job losses in the process.
Gaurav Dalmia of First Capital India, a private-equity boutique, says this ranges all the way from big foreign funds negotiating equity stakes in large Indian public companies to Indian entrepreneurs returning from Silicon Valley to put their money into tech start-ups.
China, which has no lack of capital and a tendency quickly to create overcapacity in any successful business, still has many foreign private-equity firms wondering how to make money there.
This allowed the new business, once local-government approval was obtained in China, to accept foreign private-equity money invested into the overseas holding company, while abiding by the letter of Beijing's restrictions on foreign investment in domestic enterprises.
Analysts said though foreign inflows into equity markets might further strengthen the local currency against the greenback, some lingering political risk could weigh on the value of the ringgit as Mr. Anwar, the opposition leader, has disputed the election results.
According to OFII, the foreign investment estimates include equity capital, reinvested earnings and inter-company debt (U.S. subsidiaries borrowing from foreign parent companies).
Likewise, moves in the equity or foreign-exchange markets alone do not explain the steep surge in gold.
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The composition of those flows has changed: foreign direct investment and equity flows have risen much faster than debt.
Most continued to open up, particularly to equity and foreign direct investment.
India's growth model has been to run a small current-account deficit, financed with high-quality capital inflows, such as foreign direct investment and equity purchases.
There's one more argument the critics often make against guidance: It puts so much pressure on companies that they abandon the U.S. equities market and seek out private equity or foreign listings.
This portfolio can be used to embrace all manner of investments such as Bonds, Commodities, Equity, Foreign Exchange, Loans and Options plus less transparent assets such as Derivatives, Exchange Traded Funds, Film Box Office Sales Human Resources, Real Estate, Structured Products, Trade Marks, Patent and Marketing Rights.
That could occur, for example, if you have an investment in a foreign hedge fund or private equity fund which would be subject to FATCA but should not require an FBAR.
At the same time, the two foreign-led private-equity groups are busy sweet-talking Netcom, apparently offering the firm up to 50% of whatever assets they end up with more or less for nothing, thus diluting their own interests to minority status.
Investors in general have a much greater percentage of equity exposure invested in foreign securities than 10 or 20 years ago.
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So why on earth bring in a tax change which privileges debt finance above equity, investment in foreign companies over investment in US ones?
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