business - "market"

The market is in chaos. The inventory figures are misleading. The good news? For savvy buyers, deals abound.

Before Memorial Day, I wondered if the long weekend would produce any big new M&A deals. Maybe, I thought, the stock market would begin to see the fruit of some potentially positive trends for the mergers-and-acquisitions market. Would the weak dollar, relatively cheap valuations and more corporate buyers offset the credit crisis and the dearth of private equity buyers?Well, Tuesday arrived and there wasn't much to say. A few deals but nothing major -- hardly, as those dealmaking lawyers might say, dispositive. In the background, InBev continues to sniff around Anheuser-Busch (BUD) and other U.S. brewers. And BW colleague Gene Marcial reports negotiations over Yahoo (YHOO) are intensifying. So the M&A market still has plenty of chances to prove itself -- or fall flat on its face.There was one other, little noticed M&A story that is worth watching though: Private equity players Blackstone Group (BX) and Apollo Management are considering buying Chemtura (CEM), the wall street Journal

THE likelihood of Packer family control of most of the Victorian snowfields has already had an effect on resort real estate markets.

Second-quarter profit at TD Bank Financial Group fell 3.1 per cent as 'challenging financial market conditions' hurt results in its wholesale banking division.

If the credit markets improve from here, expect it to take some time.

Rising rents in Sydney, Brisbane and Perth have pushed the cities into the ranks of the world's 50 most expensive office markets.

Shares in Topps Tiles have fallen 70% in the last year yet it's considered to be one of the most robust retailers on the market. Is it time to buy?

Has the dollar weakness become painful enough for FED to intervene in the open market? If so, will it work?

Malaysia's central bank Wednesday relaxed foreign exchange rules to woo foreign investment but said it won't let its currency, the ringgit, trade abroad amid volatility in global financial markets.

NEW YORK, NY (MARKET WIRE) Crederity, Inc. announced today that they've begun Beta testing the Crederity Trusted service, a web-based trust-building offering that provides online identity and credential verification to people-powered companies. The company is working with consulting and recruiting firms in its initial US tests of the Internet service through what the company calls Trust Facts.