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Beers: The Man Who Pulled The Trigger On The US Triple-A
NEWSMAKERS: UNITED STATES By Gordon Platt David Beers, managing director and head of sovereign credit ratings for Standard & Poor’s in London, is the mustachioed face behind the rating agency’s downgrade of US treasury bonds to AA+ from ...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Company To Watch: Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works/Russia
UPGRADES INCREASE COMPETITIVENESS FOR MAGNITOGORSK By Gordon Platt Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works (MMK), one of Russia’s top steel producers, is upgrading its production facilities to improve its competitiveness in the global steel market and replace imports in ...
Country Report
Country Report: Russia
THREATENING THE ECONOMIC RENAISSANCE By Kim Iskyan Political uncertainty and continued dependence on oil exports are casting a pall over growth prospects in Russia. On the surface, Russia looks to be on the rebound. The macroeconomic situation ...
Country Report
Country Report: Spain
UPHILL BATTLE By Antonio Guerrero Spanish banks are struggling to regain momentum in the face of a sluggish economy and the need for further restructuring. Three years after Spain’s decade-long real estate bubble burst, the country’s banks ...
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 ...