Business and Finance

This area provides up-to-date and interesting developments from the world of business, economics and finance.

A wealth of information is available on topics ranging from stock markets, consumer climate, labor market policies, bond markets, foreign trade and interest rate trends to stock exchange news and economic forecasts.

Investors scramble for KfW's new three-year bond

The new Euro Benchmark III/2009 matures on 21 May 2012 and pays a coupon of 2.25% p.a. The re-offer price was set at 99.991%, yielding 2.253% and equating to a…

Grain Prices Rebound from Flu-Linked Declines

Darrel Good says corn, soybean and wheat prices dropped sharply this week in the first trading session after reports of a virus in Mexico that was spreading…

KfW IPEX-Bank finances world's second largest photovoltaic power plant in Brandenburg

In the former military training area of Lieberose north of Cottbus, the project developer juwi from Rheinland Palatinate and the solar module manufacturer…

Saving the economy and saving the planet

Is the recession an opportunity to move away from some traditional, and environmentally unfriendly, industries to cleaner, greener industries to create new and…

'Unfunded Liabilities' a Financial Myth

Law professor Richard L. Kaplan contends the notion of “unfunded liabilities” is merely an ominous new catchphrase coined during debates over massive spending…

KfW tops up 10-year benchmark bond to a record volume

The top-up involves a yield pick-up of 99.3 basis points over the Bund maturing in January 2019. The bond, which pays a coupon of 3.875%, has a re-offer price…

Page
1 60 61 62 63 64 132