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Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Debt: US Corporate Bonds Dampening

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: CORPORATE DEBT By Gordon Platt Weak economic signals gave a boost to bond prices in the second quarter, but rising economic risk in the US makes it unlikely that the fast pace of debt issuance ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

DR News: Mothballed Indian GDRs Coming To Market

MOTHBALLED INDIAN GDRS COMING TO MARKET By Gordon Platt More than $1 billion of planned global depositary receipt (GDR) issues from companies in India were delayed in March, when market conditions deteriorated following the outbreak of hostilities in ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

DRs: Capital Raisings Nearly Triple

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: GLOBAL EQUITY/DRS By Gordon Platt Capital raisings using depositary receipts (DRs) nearly tripled in the first half of 2011, compared to the same period a year earlier, while DR trading volume and the number of ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

EM News: Chinas Inflation Near Peak, Investors Eye Earnings Growth

CHINA’S INFLATION NEAR PEAK, INVESTORS EYE EARNINGS GROWTH By Gordon Platt China’s monetary policy-tightening is advanced relative to other economies, and domestic inflation, which is centered in food prices, may be near a peak, analysts say. “As ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

FX: Euro Rebounds As EFSF Expands

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: FOREIGN EXCHANGE By Gordon Platt The EU summit in July not only reached agreement on a second...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Investors Optimistic On Sri Lankan Growth

MILESTONES: SRI LANKA By Kim Iskyan It’s been a good run for Sri Lanka of late. In mid-July, all three major ratings agencies upped their views on the country, pointing to the ongoing recovery and broad economic stabilization. ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Kulibayev Front-Runner In Kazakhstan Succession

NEWSMAKERS: KAZAKHSTAN By Kim Iskyan Talk of who might replace Kazakhstan’s president Nursultan Nazarbayev—who has ruled the oil-rich Central Asian country since 1989—has long been taboo in the country’s political circles. With Nazarbayev’s blessing Succession uncertainty has ...

Banking

Lagarde Prepares To Put Her Stamp On The IMF

NEWSMAKERS: GLOBAL By Gordon Platt Christine Lagarde will be under the microscope at the International Monetary Fund’s annual meeting in Washington on September 23–25. Lagarde: Wants relevant, credible and effective IMF The silver-haired woman the French like ...

News

LSE’s Rolet Between A Rock And A Hard Place

NEWSMAKERS: UNITED KINGDOM By Anita Hawser Xavier Rolet, the London Stock Exchange’s CEO, must have breathed a sigh of relief when the European Commission announced in early August that it would investigate the proposed merger between Deutsche Börse ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

News & Features Archive

Debt: US Corporate Bonds Dampening

DR News: Mothballed Indian GDRs Coming To Market

DRs: Capital Raisings Nearly Triple

EM News: Chinas Inflation Near Peak, Investors Eye Earnings Growth

FX: Euro Rebounds As EFSF Expands

Investors Optimistic On Sri Lankan Growth

Kulibayev Front-Runner In Kazakhstan Succession

Lagarde Prepares To Put Her Stamp On The IMF

LSE’s Rolet Between A Rock And A Hard Place

M&A: Energy, Power Light Up Global M&A

Preparing For Basel III

Regional Report: Central Eastern Europe