E.On to Sell Gas Grid to Macquarie Consortium for $4 Billion
German utility E.On has picked a consortium led by Macquarie’s infrastructure funds as the buyer for its gas distribution network Open Grid Europe in a deal valued at around 3.1 billion euro (US$4 billion), two people familiar with the matter told Do...
Drought-Free Australia Doesn’t Dampen Interest in $2 Billion Desalination Plant
The Federal Government’s announcement that Australia is drought-free for the first time in a decade hasn’t hurt the NSW Office of the Treasurer’s sale process of an up to 2 billion Australian dollar (US$2.03 billion) long-term lease of Sydney’s Desalination Plant.
Macquarie Looks to Sell Sydney Airport Stake
Macquarie Group, the world’s largest infrastructure fund manager, is looking to sell its majority stake in Sydney Airport as it struggles to rebuild its balance sheet after announcing a 24% slump in fiscal 2012 profit to the lowest point in eight years.
Google to benefit from Taiwan-China link?
Could Google become one of the beneficiaries of improving ties between Taiwan and China?
The US internet company on Tuesday began construction of its own data center in central Taiwan, one of three that it is building in Asia, after Hong Kong and Singa...
Macquarie to Raise $2 Billion Infrastructure Fund
Macquarie Group is expanding in North America with plans to raise a US$2 billion infrastructure fund this year, according to a person familiar with the matter.
Satyajit Das: Top Secret – The Chinese Envoy’s Briefing Paper On Australia’s Economy (Part I)
By Satyajit Das, derivatives expert and the author of Extreme Money: The Masters of the Universe and the Cult of Risk Traders, Guns & Money: Knowns and Unknowns in the Dazzling World of Derivatives – Revised Edition (2006 and 2010)
Your Excellency, I am pleased to present the requested report on the economic outlook for the...Zanbato May Have A Piece Of A Bridge It Wants To Sell You
Start-up platform Zanbato aims to bring greater transparency and liquidity to the infrastructure market.
Schmidt says governments, not Google, should help ease bandwidth squeeze
When Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt on Wednesday addressed a Taiwanese audience for the first time, he was in some sense preaching to the choir. As Mr Schmidt noted, Taiwan already fared better than the US in terms of broadband …Continue ...
PE Firms May Nibble On El Paso’s Exploration And Production Assets
Private equity firms may bite at El Paso's exploration and production assets but only sparingly.
Stuart Zechman: The Beatings Will Continue Until All Not-Yet-Right-Thinking Lefties Support the Infrastructure Bank Scam
Yves here. Stuart Zechman is a keen observer of how corporatist policies are peddled through various Rubinite/Hamilton Project organizations and other mouthpieces and skillfully messaged so as to snooker or co-opt bona fide progressives who ought to know better.
His article mentions Third Way. For benefit of those who have been so fortune as to...
Pain in Maine
By Richard Smith You won’t be hearing much from Yves today: Traceroute has started… traceroute to vroo.pair.com (209.68.1.136), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets 1 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1) 5.882 ms 0.760 ms 0.631 ms 2 yves.tearing.hair.out (yves.tearing.hair.out) 8.501 ms 15.333 ms 9.936 ms 3 te-9-4-ur01.brunswick.me.boston.comcast.net (68.87.36.53) 9.966 ms 10.767 ms 9.605 ms 4 te-0-7-0-2-sur01.brunswick.me.boston.comcast.net (68.85.162.61) 10.250 ms ...
Look What You Can Buy in the Greek Liquidation Sale!
Sorry if you were looking for listing of the various Greek assets on offer. You need to be a really heavyweight investor (and have been verified as such) to get a real viewing. And you are late if you are taking interest only now. The Guardian last week visited a road show of sorts...
