Taiwan 10-Year Bonds Fall on Concern Higher Oil Prices Will Spur Inflation

(Bloomberg) -- Taiwan's government bonds declined
on speculation an increase in crude oil prices will spur
inflation. The currency was little changed.

Ten-year notes ended a three-day gain after oil rose to the
highest in nearly a year in New York last week as a government
report showed the U.S. economy, the world's biggest consumer,
grew faster than expected last quarter. Inflation erodes the
purchasing power of the fixed-income payments from debt.


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Kirin Says Talks Continue on Investment in San Miguel Australia Drink Unit

(Bloomberg) -- Kirin Holdings Co., Japan's biggest
beermaker, said it remains in talks to invest in San Miguel
Corp.'s Australia dairy and juice unit.

Kirin will buy as much as 49 percent of San Miguel's
National Foods Ltd. for A$1.2 billion ($1 billion), the
Australian Financial Review reported today, without saying
where it obtained the information.


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UPDATE 1-Doosan to buy Ingersoll units for $4.9 bln

(Reuters) - The biggest ever overseas acquisition by a South Korean
company will make Doosan one of the world's top seven
construction equipment makers, the South Korean firm said.




Ingersoll signed a definitive agreement to sell Bobcat, the
world's top compact construction equipment firm, and its utility
equipment and attachment businesses, which in 2006 together
generated $2.6 billion in sales and $370 million in operating
profits.


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Liberty considers Virgin Media bid - FT

(Reuters) - Virgin Media had asked suitors to submit expressions of
interest by the first week of August to kick off an auction of
the company, people familiar with the situation told Reuters
earlier this week.




About 10 suitors have expressed an interest, sources told
Reuters, since private equity firm Carlyle Group [CYC.UL] made
an initial offer earlier this month.


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Indian Rupee May Fall For Second Week on Concern Funds Will Sell Stocks

(Bloomberg) -- India's rupee may fall for a second
week on concern overseas funds will sell emerging-market assets
as a global rout in corporate debt and equities drives investors
to safer securities such as U.S. Treasuries.

The country's benchmark Bombay Stock Exchange Sensitive
Index, or Sensex, slumped the most in four months on July 27,
causing the rupee to fall from near a nine-year high. The
currency may extend its biggest weekly decline in almost two
months, a survey of traders showed.


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UPDATE 1-Japan output rises, BOJ rate rise seen on track

(Reuters) - But a crushing defeat for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's
coalition in Sunday's upper house election could complicate the
outlook for monetary policy and scale back market expectations
for a central bank rate hike next month, analysts said.




The increase in June output beat a median market forecast for
a 1.1 percent rise.


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Credit Suisse Fees to Fall the Most as LBOs Slow, Standard & Poor's Says

(Bloomberg) -- Investment banking fees are likely to
fall or stop growing as buyout firms purchase fewer companies,
and Credit Suisse Group would probably be the most affected
Standard & Poor's said in a report published today.

Group revenue at Switzerland's second-largest bank could
fall by 3.8 percent were leveraged buyout fees to fall by half,
S&P said. Earnings at Credit Suisse and UBS AG could plunge up to
19 percent as buyouts slow, Deutsche Bank AG analyst Matt Spick
said on July 26.


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