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Trump's infrastructure "fantasy": Ditch mass transit for self-driving cars, private highways
5 days ago

Trump's infrastructure "fantasy": Ditch mass transit for self-driving cars, private highways

Salon  

While President-elect Donald Trump rarely spoke about infrastructure projects during the 2024 campaign, especially compared to the grand promises of his earlier campaigns, Trump's allies plan to revive infrastructure planning from his first administration. Instead, it's likely to mean reduced funding for public transit, increased investment in autonomous or "self-driving" vehicles and contracting out major infrastructure projects to private investors. …

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Landlords still selling off property, but total number of rentals stable: Land Registry
1 month ago

Landlords still selling off property, but total number of rentals stable: Land Registry

NL Times  

Investors sold more homes than they bought in the third quarter of this year, the Land Registry reports. In the four largest cities, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague, and Utrecht, private investors sold over 1,700 homes and bought fewer than 300. Business investors sold just as many homes and bought around 750. According to the Land Registry, the introduction of purchase …

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Hobart Macquarie Point stadium documents reveal further unfunded commitments amid ballooning state debt
3 months ago

Hobart Macquarie Point stadium documents reveal further unfunded commitments amid ballooning state debt

ABC  

After a storm of negative headlines over the Spirit of Tasmania debacle and a week of concern about a budget projected to plunge the state into $8.6 billion of debt in four years' time, the government needed a win. That's the trade-off for building a stadium at a cost of just $375 million to the state government — the more …

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Water investors have withdrawn billions from private companies, analyst claims
7 months ago

Water investors have withdrawn billions from private companies, analyst claims

The Independent  

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Shareholders in some of the UK’s largest water companies have …

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Raise domestic financing to fund climate action projects: IMF’s Georgieva
1 year ago

Raise domestic financing to fund climate action projects: IMF’s Georgieva

Live Mint  

New Delhi: Developing economies need to do more domestically to raise financing and deepen domestic capital markets to participate and invest in climate action, said International Monetary Fund managing director Kristalina Georgieva in an interview held during the climate summit in Dubai. As part of the plan, the IMF will start a new programme with the World Bank on tax, …

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Private real estate investors benefited from tighter mortgage standards: study
1 year, 2 months ago

Private real estate investors benefited from tighter mortgage standards: study

NL Times  

Private real estate investors have benefited greatly from tighter mortgage debt limits for homebuyers, as a portion of house seekers could no longer buy properties and had to rent in the free sector housing instead. By 2018, a household earning twice the modal income could allocate only 24 percent of its gross income to mortgage costs, a decrease from 36.8 …

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'India is bright spot in global economy': Modi bats for investment at MP summit
1 year, 11 months ago

'India is bright spot in global economy': Modi bats for investment at MP summit

Hindustan Times  

The Indian economy has 'strong macroeconomic fundamentals' and is expected to be among the fastest growing in the elite G-20 grouping, prime minister Narendra Modi said Wednesday at a global investors summit in Madhya Pradesh. Hailing India as an 'attractive destination for investment', the prime minister said his government's work on key economic reforms despite global challenges had led to …

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Saudi prince, Qatar firm among investors in Elon Musk's Twitter: Report
2 years, 1 month ago

Saudi prince, Qatar firm among investors in Elon Musk's Twitter: Report

Hindustan Times  

Elon Musk is the new owner of social media giant Twitter, this after he completed a $44 billion buyout last Thursday. Prince Alwaleed bin Talal According to the regulatory filing, Saudi prince Alwaleed bin Talal moved almost 35 million Twitter shares via the Kingdom Holding Co. which are worth $1.9 billion at $54.40 per share sale price, Bloomberg reported. Alwaleed, …

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Cryptocurrency: 5 questions crypto investors are asking from government before likely ban
3 years ago

Cryptocurrency: 5 questions crypto investors are asking from government before likely ban

India TV News  

With India preparing to introduce the much-anticipated Cryptocurrency and Regulation of Official Digital Currency Bill, 2021, in the ongoing Winter Session of the Parliament, all eyes are on what will happen to the investors' hard-earned money once the ban on all private cryptocurrencies comes into effect. Although Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman informed the Parliament that the government has no proposal …

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Deregulation: Licence to Loot Raj
3 years, 3 months ago

Deregulation: Licence to Loot Raj

The Hindu  

Thirty years is a long time, even in the life of a nation. The “Open Skies” policy of the government allowed foreign carriers unlimited access to Indian markets, even though Air India itself faced severe restrictions on its operations overseas. In fact, in the euphoria over the inroads made by private mobile telephony in the last two decades, it is …

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Explained | Why is there a push for asset monetisation?
3 years, 3 months ago

Explained | Why is there a push for asset monetisation?

The Hindu  

The story so far: On August 23, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced the National Monetisation Pipeline, which is expected to fetch around ₹5.96 lakh crore to the government. Following through on the Budget’s plan to monetise public assets to fund fresh capital expenditure on infrastructure, the government released a list of projects and facilities to be offered to private investors …

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RUTH SUNDERLAND: Digging deep Down Under with mining company BHP's disappointing move
3 years, 4 months ago

RUTH SUNDERLAND: Digging deep Down Under with mining company BHP's disappointing move

Daily Mail  

When your nickname is ‘The Big Australian’, it’s a clue as to your status in national life. BHP signed undertakings to remain an Australian company twenty years ago but the real reason is that the Aussie-listed shares trade at a premium to their London counterparts. Young gun Aged 41, private equity prodigy Shonnel Malani is already chairman of defence company …

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Startup deals in India set to pick up pace as investors hunt post-pandemic bets
3 years, 4 months ago

Startup deals in India set to pick up pace as investors hunt post-pandemic bets

Live Mint  

Cash-laden investors are set to step up the hunt for Indian firms, mainly tech start-ups, likely to benefit in the post-pandemic world, after pumping in a record $30 billion via public and private equity deals this year, bankers and analysts said. "COVID has accelerated the existing trend towards digital consumerism, be that in food delivery, ecommerce or retail," said Gaurav …

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Policy black holes spook space investors
3 years, 5 months ago

Policy black holes spook space investors

The Hindu  

Potential foreign investors in India’s space sector are unsure if their licence applications would get ‘a fair consideration’ and are wary of a possible conflict of interest given that the Department of Space is both the sectoral regulator and a service provider by way of its role overseeing the Indian Space Research Organisation. Observing that the reforms announced in June …

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Reagan-Era Gen X Dogma Has No Place in Silicon Valley
3 years, 5 months ago

Reagan-Era Gen X Dogma Has No Place in Silicon Valley

Wired  

As a core member of Gen X, I’m usually content to sit and watch boomers and millennials lob rhetorical bombs at one another. It’s hard to break free of base-level assumptions set so early in life, and many of our Gen X investors seem to still think like disregarded 20-year-olds, to the detriment of imagination and innovation for us all. …

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