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• Understanding Ratios for Stock Market Decisions - 27 February 2007

How much does the stock market trust ratios? Well, business management schools and courses in Finance may pay more obeisances to concepts of gearing, profitability, liquidity, and other information that ratios try to convey, than stock market players of today are willing to concede.

• Quantas Airways Ltd agrees to Onex Corp deal - 19 February 2007

Onex finally convinced the largest airline in Australia to accept their offer of $11.1 billion, after being turned down previously. Quantas Airways agreed to the take over, only after Onex and its partners revised their conditions and settled for $5.60 a share. Due to the strict government regulations, foreign owners are limited to owning 49 percent of the airliner. Onex will receive a return investment of $445 million, with a 12.5 percent stake. Investors that are located outside of Australia may not own more than a quarter, which puts Macquarie Bank and Allco, as the major shareholders. A minor share will be owned by the Texas Pacific Group in San Francisco.

• Taiwan’s High Speed Revolution - 12 February 2007

The transport improvement, that has the entire Taiwan debating and wondering, is the new revolutionary high speed train that is destined to change the daily lives of the extremely populated, estimated at 90% of the Taiwanese population, that live in the western corridor. White and orange trains that can reach speeds of up to 300 kilometres an hour, or 186 miles per hour, is set to change the travelling time between Taipei and Kaohsiung, with more than four hours. Instead, the long journey could be cut to 90 minutes. The Taiwan Institute of Economic Research, have been studying the impact that this $15bn project will have on the economy. It is the worlds largest BOT, or Build-Operate-Transfer.

• Stock Market Archeology - 5 February 2007

Gambling is not a sustainable strategy on the stock market! Watching others superficially, or acting on casual and unsubstantiated talk, can lead to serious errors when it comes to investing. Long odds do pay off on occasion, but most talk of windfalls is likely to be full of fancy rather than fact. It is not worth taking large risks with precious capital.