Jim Carlen

Type: Person

Name: Jim Carlen

First reported May 19 2013 - Updated May 20 2013 - 1 reports

Analysis: Frontier Markets booming but risks mounting

NEW YORK (Reuters) - With the world's biggest central banks driving yields on safe assets to near zero, some investors are tossing caution to the wind and rushing to buy illiquid and previously overlooked bonds sold by countries with no capital markets ... [Published Hartford Courant - May 19 2013]

Entities: Paraguay, Jim Carlen, Emerging Markets, Bank of Japan, Default Risk

First reported Jan 16 2013 - Updated Jan 16 2013 - 1 reports

Five Points bar pays $975,000 settlement

COLUMBIA, SC Video cameras showing a young man in a bar, then driving a car that hit and killed a pedestrian in a high-profile intersection helped lead to a $975,000 settlement of a lawsuit against a Five Points bar.Surveillance cameras inside Jakes Bar ... [Published South Carolina State - Jan 16 2013]

Entities: Jim Carlen, Lawsuit, Legal Papers

First reported Dec 28 2012 - Updated Dec 28 2012 - 1 reports

A generation later, another big game with Michigan for Gamecock fans

The last time South Carolina beat Michigan, its opponent in the Jan. 1 Outback Bowl, the result created such excitement that 5,000 fans flocked to Columbia Metropolitan Airport to greet their returning heroes.That was 1980, and the front-page photo in ... [Published South Carolina State - Dec 28 2012]

Entities: Jim Carlen, Airport High School, Marcus Lattimore, Jadeveon Clowney

Quotes

"the tightness in the spreads that you are seeing in these countries is really a factor of the significant level of liquidity in global markets and significant inflows into emerging market fixed income specifically" Carlen added

Analysis: Frontier Markets booming but risks mounting [Published Hartford Courant - May 19 2013]