The value of hotel deals for the first five months of 2012 came to $5.1 billion, down from $6.4 billion a year earlier.

Asia's share of global private equity investments has doubled to 21 percent in the past four years, helped by last year's strong growth and that figure should continue to rise, a top McKinsey & Co executive told Reuters.

foreclosed homes attract investors. At the height of the housing bubble, the practice of "flipping" homes - buying them for cheap, fixing them up and reselling them for a quick profit - was popular enough to inspire its own TV show.

Australian private equity returned 7.85 percent to investors in 2011. Australian private equity returned 7. 85 percent to investors in 2011, and on a three-year basis returns far outstripped the benchmark Australian stock index, industry data showed.

Clean Edge’s Third Annual State Clean Energy Index Provides Critical Benchmarking and Analysis of Dynamic U.S. Clean-Tech Landscape.

Long-term investors fearful of another global financial storm may be better prepared than they were before Lehman Brothers went bust in 2008, but their increasingly nervous disposition could itself be making markets more fragile.

European pension funds plan to withdraw more money from stock markets to avoid rising volatility and almost 70 percent of firms with exposure to peripheral euro sovereign bonds plan even more reductions.

The ripple effects of Facebook Inc's botched IPO appear to already be hitting the market for initial public offerings

The slow market for merger deals is driving big-name investment banks into combat with smaller rivals for business from companies they usually ignore.

Silicon Valley isn't quite ready to dump Morgan Stanley over the Facebook IPO fiasco. Silicon Valley isn't quite ready to dump Morgan Stanley over the Facebook IPO fiasco.