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Camiant, Inc announced a newly published study, "Mobile Broadband in North America and Europe: Change is Key to Maintaining Profitability," that explores mobile broadband adoption and growth trends in Europe and North America as well as operators' capabilities to control and monetize growth. The custom research outlines the challenges in the mobile broadband marketplace and proposes a set of elements for new business models to alleviate expected negative consequences of broadband commoditization.

J.E. Robert Companies (JER)released the results of a recent survey conducted among US and European institutional investors looking at the current drivers for investment decisions. The majority of respondents are decision makers with leading pension funds, followed by executives from financial institutions, endowments and foundations. The key takeaway from the survey reveals the mandate for investing in commercial real estate is on the rise. Other notable factors cite the most attractive regions to invest in are: North America, followed by Asia and then Europe.

In its forecast, Merrill Lynch said there were a number of positives for residential housing and prices. But overall the news was gloomy for house prices and for those companies in the sector. "Firstly, we estimate underlying demand exceeds supply by 10-20% which, under normal conditions would lead to price pressure,"Merrills said in a note to clients.

Fitch Ratings says that the deteriorating global macro-economic conditions are likely to affect the performance of many European structured finance sectors. However, the agency notes that it expects the majority of negative rating migration to be limited to the more junior classes of notes.

Twice as many top U.S. companies publicly released sustainability data on their environmental, social and governance information in 2008 compared with three years earlier, and ethics outweighed economics for the first time as the primary reason for such disclosures, according to a KPMG International global analysis of corporate reports.

Mobile users around the world are delaying plans to upgrade or buy new phone handsets while also changing their current spending habits, due to the global economic crisis. These are the findings of the first "Mobile Attitudes" poll carried out by GetJar.

The financial crisis sweeping world markets is the worst since the Great Depression. While the crisis is biting into the real economy, hard lessons are being learned. How should policymakers move forward, particularly as room for manoeuvre is being squeezed?

Despite perturbations in global financial markets, worldwide telecommunication industry revenues are predicted to continue growing at a healthy eight percent over the next five years, according to a new market analysis study from INSIGHT Research Corporation.

Fitch Ratings says in a special report that, despite the sovereign's strong balance sheet and liquidity position, the impact of the global financial crisis and sharp drop in oil prices has brought Fitch's long-standing concerns over Russia's relatively weak banking sector, commodity dependence and heavy private sector external repayment schedule to the fore, exposing weaknesses in Russia's economic and credit fundamentals.

The gap between rich and poor has grown in more than three-quarters of OECD countries over the past two decades, according to a new OECD report.