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Rising US sub-prime mortgage defaults were the trigger for an inevitable and broad-based repricing of risk and deleveraging by banks and other financial market participants. This process is proving even more prolonged and difficult than anticipated. Banks have been unable to sell or secure funding on assets in which markets have closed. That has increased uncertainty about banks’ financial positions, contributing to continued stress in money markets and tighter credit availability.

In these conditions, adverse news and rumours can lead to a sudden loss of market confidence, as was shown by the collapse of Bear Stearns in mid-March.

More than 75 percent of all email today is spam, placing a significant strain on your network, budget, and employee productivity. Our objective is to leverage mail security intelligence from the Symantec Global Intelligence Network to help protect your business from spam. By offering up-to-date expert resources, such as the monthly State of Spam Report, this site gives you a central source to turn to for the latest on spam.

Each month, Symantec publishes its "State of Spam" report, highlighting major spam events or trends observed during the previous month. The report covers broad events that impact everyone, as well as those that impact a particular region of the world.

This study was undertaken to examine the impacts of expanded levels of ethanol and biodiesel production and to provide a better understanding of the potential economic and agricultural impacts of this expansion.

The study results indicate that producing 60 billion gallons of ethanol and 1.6 billion gallons of biodiesel from renewable resources by the year 2030 is projected to result in the development of a new industrial complex with nearly 35 million acres planted to dedicated energy crops.

The Dove Report: Challenging Beauty yields significant insights into the hearts and minds of women across the country. The first revelation being that the very subject of beauty contains inherent contradictions. Beauty oppresses, yet it can liberate. It’s a rare commodity, yet it is universal. Women feel beautiful when they dress up, and when they are physically active. However, among the contradictions there is consensus.

Hedge funds currently manage over two trillion dollars in assets worldwide, and they are an increasingly prominent feature on the investment landscape. The size of the hedge fund market has grown dramatically in recent years, and issues arising from hedge fund investments and management now have broad implications for the entire financial industry. Hedge funds often involve complex, illiquid or opaque investments and investment strategies. These investments, however, receive little regulatory oversight. Thus, hedge funds are suitable only for sophisticated and prudent investors who are able to identify, analyze and bear the associated risks, and follow appropriate practices to evaluate, select, monitor, and exit these investments.

The next 12 months have been heralded a real turning point for mobile internet advertising, when the experience will match the technology and consumers will get over their hang-ups about using their mobile phones for something other than communication and surf to their hearts’ content on the move, occasionally interacting with advertising.

The IAB’s 'mobile advertising: the emerging UK market' report - written with the Mobile Marketing Association and available to download below is an ideal introduction to the increasingly important mobile market.

FORWARD: In today’s highly competitive market place, the ability to execute and complete a deal is more challenging than ever before. Private equity firms face a number of hurdles in the race to win exclusivity and they have developed a range of strategies to ensure success.

Marsh & McLennan Companies (MMC) Marsh, Mercer Human Resource Consulting, and Kroll wanted to find out more about the issues that concern private equity firms in this environment, and the ways in which these can be overcome. So we commissioned Mergermarket to conduct a research study into European private equity professionals’ perception of deal risks.