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’Buy? Sell? Hold? Delete! — doctored research fight rumbles on
In the blue corner are three academics, hell-bent on highlighting supposed inconsistencies in the financial information collated by one of the data sector’s leaders; in the red corner is that same sector leader equally keen on defending its reputation and pointing out the holes in the academics’ study.
Onwards and upwards for global M&A – unless you’re European
The M&A boom continues – for the first two months of 2007 at least. Dealmaking increased by 16 per cent in the first two months of this year, according to Thomson Financial, compared to the corresponding period of 2006.
The market in avian flu
Having just made it past Christmas, the turkeys at the Bernard Matthews farm in Suffolk must have thought they were in luck. Not so – 160,000 turkeys are to be culled at the farm in Europe’s worst outbreak of the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu.
Avian flu and the perception of risk
The market in bird flu is currently sitting at 22 countries during 2007, according to a virtual trading service being run by Thomson Financial and the World Economic Forum ahead of this month’s Davos meeting.