Category Archives: HedgeCo News
Dollar mixed, euro higher
NEW YORK (AP) — Lifted by a wave of buying against the yen following verbal intervention from Japanese government officials overnight in Tokyo, the euro ended New York trading slightly strongeracross the board Wednesday. This rise against the yen also […]
Statewide Conference Featuring Federal Programs Offering $1.6 Billion In Funding for Innovative Research & Development Solutions Slated For September 23 in Sacramento
<body.content> <block> <p>SACRAMENTO, Calif., Aug. 27 /PRNewswire/ — The Golden Capital Network and its California partner organizations announced today a Statewide Conference inSacramento slated for Tuesday, September 23 in conjunction with the federal Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small […]
Failure may spur greater success
FOR many entrepreneurs seeing a business they have built up fall through is one of the toughest experiences they will ever have. In the past the genuine entrepreneur has worried about the stigma that often goes with a business failure. […]
Roundup (08/27/2003)
HONG KONG Hang Seng drifts lower Prices on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange closed slightly lower yesterday on profit-taking. The key Hang Seng Index slipped 10.29 points, or 0.10 per cent, to 10,753.93. On Monday, the index edged up 3.49 […]
New York Officials Consider Investing Workers’ Pension Into Hedge Funds
Aug. 27–Retirement funds of city and state cops and firefighters may soon be tied to some of the wildest get-rich investments hatched on Wall Street. William Thompson, the city controller, and Alan Hevesi, the state controller, are both considering investing […]
Great Lakes Venture Capital Conference Issues Call for Presenters for Nov. 13 Event
CHICAGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Aug. 27, 2003–The Great Lakes Venture Capital Conference (GLVCC), the Midwest’s leading later-stage investment conference, has issued a call to high-growth companiesseeking a second or later round of investment to apply to present to a gathering of leading venture […]
Wednesday’s Commodities Roundup
NEW YORK (Dow Jones News) – A sizable sell-off in U.S. gasoline futures Wednesday dragged the rest of the New York Mercantile Exchange crude futures trading complex lower. Since Monday’s settlement high of $1.1163 a gallon, the September gasoline futures […]
Asian stock markets close mostly lower
HONG KONG (AP) — Asian stock markets closed mostly lower Tuesday, but the key index in Tokyo rose for the first time in three sessions. Tokyo’s Nikkei Stock Average of 225 selected issues gained 55.93 points, or 0.54 percent, to […]
Reforming The Deep End Of The Mortgage Market
SANTA FE, N.M. — It seems an unlikely place to talk about the largest of all the debt markets. But here we are, having lunch at the Santa Cafe and talking about the current upheaval in the nation’ssecuritized mortgage market. […]
BioScience Learning Moves Into Larger Offices and Expands Its Staff
<body.content> <block> <p>RALEIGH, N.C., Aug. 26 /PRNewswire/ — BioScience Learning (BSL), a life sciences content and communications company, announced its move into largerfacilities after recently expanding its business development staff. There are plans to hire additional production staff in order […]
Netilla Networks Adds $2 Million Series C Second-Tranche Financing
SOMERSET, NJ — (MARKET WIRE) — 08/26/2003 — Netilla Networks, Inc., a leading provider of SSL VPN and secure application access management solutions, today announced that Masthead VenturePartners, LLC has become its latest investor. Masthead, a premier venture capital firm […]
Leading CEOs and Active Investors Offer Advice on How to Finance a Biotech Business at Strategic Research Institute’s Biotech Symposium
NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Aug. 26, 2003–It’s not an easy task. Leading the race as a biotech company not only requires competitive technology, it also requires strategic planning, operativepartnerships and plenty of capital. However, the challenges of running a biotech business today […]