Asahi, Kirin See Profit Boost In 2012 As M&As Pay Off - Wall Street Journal

Asahi, Kirin See Profit Boost In 2012 As M&As Pay Off
Wall Street Journal
By Hiroyuki Kachi Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES TOKYO (Dow Jones)--Japan's two biggest brewers on Friday forecast solid profit growth for 2012 despite posting mixed earnings results for last year, in a sign that a recent rush of overseas mergers and ...

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Japanese companies invest in Vietnam - Financial Times

Japanese companies invest in Vietnam
Financial Times
“Japanese companies are realising that they're not going to survive just in Japan,” says Mr Foster, who advised Mizuho, the banking group, last year on its $567m acquisition of a 15 per cent stake in Vietcombank, one of Vietnam's biggest ...

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Petrobras Staying Out of Market Signals Rally: Brazil Credit - San Francisco Chronicle

Petrobras Staying Out of Market Signals Rally: Brazil Credit
San Francisco Chronicle
The company is seeking to finance $224.7 billion of investments in the five years through 2015 to double production and develop the largest oil discovery in the Americas in more than three decades. "Petrobras is a good example of informing the market," ...

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Small Caps Rally as UK Investors Anticipate More BOE Stimulus - BusinessWeek

Small Caps Rally as UK Investors Anticipate More BOE Stimulus
BusinessWeek
These stocks “snapped back” after about four months of underperformance when concerns about another euro-area recession peaked, said Graham Bishop, an equity strategist at Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc in London. The possibility of further stimulus ...

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