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China's huge appetite is making some foreign governments nervous. Australia blocked the Minmetals deal with Oz, citing national security, forcing the Chinese firm to revise the offer to exclude a valuable gold and copper mine. And Libya exercised its option to buy Venerex Energy, a producer based in Calgary, Canada, whose biggest asset is an oil and gas field 100 miles (160 km) southwest of Tripoli. That thwarted a $390 million bid that China National Petroleum Corp. had made to acquire Venerex. Beijing hasn't done itself any favors either. It blocked--on antitrust grounds that analysts considered flimsy...
There's no question that it's a buyer's market for raw materials and that many resource companies are struggling to find willing partners and financiers. China's Rosneft injection will allow the Russian company to pay off $8.5 billion in debt-- 60% of it owed to foreign banks--that matures this year. Beijing looks like the last, best hope of miners and drillers...
...History Department's. You need to either be a Classics concentrator or taking a Classics course that requires access to Smyth for the readings (the best reason to take an ancient history seminar or Classics department course). Or, if you are planning to do a secondary field and a foreign-language citation and just don't have the room in your schedule, you can try to pretend to be a concentrator when asking the department administrator for swipe access...
...depressed mood. Despite the arrival of spring, the political and economic news across the region is gloomy at best. Eastern Europe’s emerging economies have been some of the worst hit by the current economic crisis—making unemployment rise, threatening their ability to roll over foreign debt, and toppling governments. As a recent International Monetary Fund paper proposes, the best way forward may be a European answer to an Eastern European problem: early adoption of the euro...
...course, not all Eastern European economies are the same. If we consider the Czech Republic, Poland, and Hungary, it becomes clear that the last has taken much more debt from foreign markets—in a way that may have been problematic even without a global economic crisis. But, in the current scenario, investors that had previously been attracted to the generous interest rates of the region have fled as fast as possible. And very few remain, making it very hard for these countries to roll over debt or put in place counter-cyclical measures to ease the effects...