Some governments cannot resist the urge to protect their national champions from foreign ownership, but Australia's Prime Minister John Howard is being distinctly noninterventionist following overseas interest in Qantas, his country's biggest and oldest airline.
The day's other leading performers included BT - up 2.6% - and United Utilities, which rose 2.5% after an upgrade of the sector by Goldman Sachs and recent excitement surrounding the overseas bid interest in rival Severn Trent.
Finance Minister Guido Mantega said that a lot of Brazilian companies were getting loans overseas, where interest rates are much lower than they are in Brazil.
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London, which has had strong interest from overseas buyers, was the only part of the UK where more surveyors reported price rises than falls.
Chinese customers today, she says, share a similarity with those from Japan in the 1980s in terms of an interest in overseas brands, particularly from Europe.
Though he has had some interest from overseas, his inquiries typically come from wealthy types looking for a unique place to call home--or members of the Society for Creative Anachronisms , a medieval reenactment group.
Some 200 journalists have been accredited to cover the wedding, many from overseas, signaling the global interest in the social landmark represented by the marriage.
Its fuel-saving possibilities, cutting edge technology, operational versatility and cabin appointments generated enormous interest from airlines, initially overseas.
Its fuel saving possibilities, cutting edge technology, operational versatility and cabin appointments generated enormous interest from airlines, initially overseas.
The government makes up the difference by printing and selling Treasury bills and bonds, which are increasingly being bought by overseas investors looking to profit from the interest.
Attention will now turn to the overseas markets with the US being of particularly interest.
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Unfortunately, it is not foreordained that Mr. Clinton's new-found interest in American leadership and engagement overseas will overcome the cumulative effects of inattention to these issues on public attitudes and preferences.
James Whitson, a director of Rettie, said despite 65% of the web visits originating from overseas, those who viewed the property and noted interest were Scottish-based businessmen.
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The nationalists, as they were called, were only willing to support American overseas intervention when it met a strict test of national interest and didn't involve ceding control to international organizations or coalitions.
It has attracted enormous interest from airlines, with most orders coming from overseas carriers initially.
It generated a lot of interest in security circles, up to and including presentation overseas for Interpol.
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At a time when unemployment remains high and economic growth is lagging, forcing banks to report interest paid to nonresident aliens would encourage the flight of capital overseas to jurisdictions without onerous reporting requirements, place unnecessary burdens on the American economy, put our financial system at a fundamental competitive disadvantage, and would restrict access to capital when our economy can least afford it.
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Eurodollar futures and options, where investors hedged or speculated on the interest rate paid on a 90-day deposit of a dollar overseas, were half of the Merc's business, with 1.5 million contracts traded per day.
More specifically, the IRS wants banks to report how much interest they pay foreign depositors so that this information can be forwarded to overseas tax authorities.
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While a Web site can attract interest from all over the globe, there's still the challenge of collecting from an overseas customer.
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