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...sovereign wealth funds from Arab countries aren't likely to rush in to buy the assets of Western financial companies just yet, according to Sfakianakis. Some have already been burned, like the Kuwait Investment Authority, which bought Merrill Lynch shares worth billions earlier this year only to see the stock plummet in recent months. So for now, Arab investors are likely to refocus on infrastructure projects in their own countries that create real value and services for their economies, which are bound to keep growing even in the midst of a Western financial crisis...
...sometimes takes a good financial crisis to remind us just how interconnected we are. When the New York stock market crashed in 1929 the economic shockwaves reached London, Paris and beyond, in one of the first examples of global economic contagion. News travels a little faster these days, and markets don't just follow Wall Street's lead, they anticipate it: stocks in parts of Asia dropped even before New York awoke last Monday, previewing the bloodbath that was to come in the U.S. Here's the buzz (and gloom) from five global financial centers - along with the drop...
...Kennedy, scion of America's most famous political family and a wealthy investor in his day, told of selling his holdings before the 1929 market crash because a shoeshine boy had offered him stock tips. The story may well be apocryphal, but in the decades since, shoeshine boys have become a kind of insider's measure of how a market's doing. In the main shopping center in London's Canary Wharf financial district David Peralta is one such oracle, though not because he hands out investment tips...
...fund may have been conservative in terms of the stocks it holds (China Telecom and Bank of China, among others), but it hasn't been safe. China's stock markets have fallen by 63% this year. Alerted to the severity of the slide by one of her investment-club friends, Zhu checked on the mutual fund earlier this week as Shanghai's stock index plunged below the 2,000-point level for the first time in nearly two years. Zhu was stunned to see that her investment had lost nearly...
...Shanghai has always thrived as China's gateway to the world. While Beijing may boast millennia of history, Shanghai owes its prominence to having served as a key trading port for colonial powers. Once China accelerated market reforms in the 1990s, the country's first stock exchange was established in Shanghai, and much of the foreign direct investment that flows into China comes through here. Fashion houses, banks and law firms gravitate first to Shanghai, not Beijing. Still, the last couple of years have not been kind to the city. A cancerous corruption scandal, uncovered by the overlords in Beijing...