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theglobeandmail.com » The Globe and Mail - Eric Reguly Columns - 6 hours ago
The Santander helicopter soars over the battlefield wreckage. Below are the smouldering ruins of banks, investment firms and insurers, gasping CEOs on stretchers, dazed and confused shareholders and regulators. But the …
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theglobeandmail.com » The Globe and Mail - Eric Reguly Columns - Oct 3, 2008
Like real estate in the United States and Britain, private equity and LBOs were bubbles waiting to burst
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globeandmail.com » The Globe and Mail - Eric Reguly Columns - Oct 3, 2008
Five months ago, J.C. Flowers, one of Wall Street's best-known private equity firms, figured Germany's banks had been sufficiently beaten up. It was time to buy.
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theglobeandmail.com » The Globe and Mail - Eric Reguly Columns - Oct 1, 2008
The glaring hole in the European Union's regulatory portfolio - the lack of a common bank-rescue agreement - sapped confidence again yesterday as more lenders fought for survival.While the broad European equity markets …
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globeandmail.com » The Globe and Mail - Eric Reguly Columns - Sep 29, 2008
'A day of desperation' as five countries scramble to announce bank bailout packages
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globeandmail.com » The Globe and Mail - Eric Reguly Columns - Sep 26, 2008
Europe is on tenterhooks.Only a few weeks ago, there was a sense of optimism in the euro zone. Yes, the economy was cracking, but the worst seemed to be over. Oil prices were down, wage settlements were up. Apart from …
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globeandmail.com » The Globe and Mail - Eric Reguly Columns - Sep 17, 2008
Halifax Bank of Scotland poised to merge with smaller rival Lloyds TSB
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globeandmail.com » The Globe and Mail - Eric Reguly Columns - Sep 15, 2008
It's amazing how quickly we've become accustomed to expensive oil. But what is expensive? When oil climbed to an all-time high of $147 (U.S.) a barrel in July, our oil-addicted planet seemed on the verge of economic …
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globeandmail.com » The Globe and Mail - Eric Reguly Columns - Sep 14, 2008
A stay at a remote country inn may not seem like an act of defiance. But as Eric Reguly reports, some of the loveliest guest houses in Sicily are former gangsters' properties part of a growing anti-Mafia tourism …
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theglobeandmail.com » The Globe and Mail - Eric Reguly Columns - Sep 13, 2008
A stay at a remote country inn may not seem like an act of defiance. But as Eric Reguly reports, some of the loveliest guest houses in Sicily are former gangsters' properties ? part of a growing anti-Mafia tourism …
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