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...Thursday, the Senate Finance Committee approved by a vote of 17-4 legislation to continue funding for S-CHIP, the federal program that has successfully insured over seven million of America's poorest children since it began in 1997 - funded by increased taxes on cigarettes, cigars and other tobacco products. The higher taxes would fund SCHIP coverage for an additional 3.3 million children...
...accept today's decision rather than fight it. His Prime Minister, Shaukat Aziz, told the state media that the government will honor the Supreme Court ruling, a point Musharraf has made several times over the past weeks. Humayun Gohar, editor-in-chief of the Islamabad based business magazine Blue Chip, says the ruling will "weaken Musharraf" but believes it could also be a blessing in disguise for the government. They "are fighting on several fronts and now one front is closed. If the government is sensible, it will accept the decision," says Gohar...
...Chinese government views this blue-chip IPO parade as essential for economic modernization. "The government wants a healthy equity culture to gradually develop in China," says Jing Ulrich, managing director of China equities at JPMorgan in Hong Kong, "because allocating capital more efficiently is central to the ongoing reform process." The government has outsized influence over large Chinese corporations for a simple reason: most being brought to market are state owned. Encouraging big, well-known companies to make their shares available to domestic investors-who have very limited access to markets abroad-makes sense. China's equity markets have...
...China's regulators, the more important issue is this: Having overhauled the nation's laws regulating its stock markets and successfully enticed some of the country's blue chip companies to issue stock at home, what happens now if a crash comes? Some investors in China, in fact, are already miffed at the government, saying that the new supply of shares coming to the mainland's markets - regional banks such as the Bank of Nanjing are next in the IPO line - are starting to put downward pressure on equity prices. As far as the authorities are concerned...
...appeal, of course, can be intense. Blue-chip private equity firm the Blackstone Group, which sold 12% of itself to the public on June 22, has returned an annualized 30% over the past 20 years to the pension funds, endowments and high net-worth individuals invested in its flagship private equity portfolio. On the first day of trading, Blackstone's public shares surged...