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Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets Focus: CEE

COVER STORY: HARD TIMES By Justin Keay A sustainable recovery remains as elusive as ever for many of the countries of Central and Eastern Europe. Before the fall of the Berlin Wall and the demise of the ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets Focus: Latin America

COVER STORY: MUTUAL BENEFITS By Antonio Guerrero Latin America is enjoying growing prosperity as the region develops ever-stronger economic ties with Asia. When Chinese President Hu Jintao took his first tour of Latin America in 2004, he ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets Focus: Middle East

COVER STORY: INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT SUSTAINS GROWTH By Gordon Platt High oil prices are keeping government spending flowing strongly into major projects, while debt-laden Dubai has taken a turn for the better. Dubai’s world-class infrastructure gave the emirate’s ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets Focus: Rising Stars

COVER STORY: EMERGING MARKETS FOCUS 2010 By Gordon Platt After an impressive 2010, the coming year looks likely to bring more good news for most emerging markets. Emerging markets are giving capital controls a good name. Long ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Fed Injects $600Bn, Feeds Bond Rally

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: CORPORATE DEBT By Gordon Platt The bond market rally was given a new lease on life last month when the Federal Reserve announced it would buy $600 billion of US treasuries—and maybe more, if necessary—by ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Fed Pulls Rug Out From Under Dollar

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: FOREIGN EXCHANGE By Gordon Platt Although the Federal Reserve's main focus is not the dollar, which is the purview of the US Treasury Department, it had to know that its $600 billion asset- purchase plan ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Ford’s Turkish Van Drives Into US Market

COMPANY TO WATCH: FORD OTOSAN/TURKEY By Gordon Platt Ford Otosan, a joint venture between Ford Motor of the US and Koç Group, a leading industrial conglomerate based in Turkey, exports its products to more than 60 countries. Soon ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Frontier Markets Index Tracks New Asset Class

EMERGING MARKETS INVESTOR: NEWS By Gordon Platt Russell Investments, based in Washington state, introduced a new index, the Russell Frontier Index, that initially includes 683 stocks from 41 countries, none of which are included in the firm's emerging-markets ...

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News & Features Archive

Emerging Markets Focus: CEE

Emerging Markets Focus: Latin America

Emerging Markets Focus: Middle East

Emerging Markets Focus: Rising Stars

Fed Injects $600Bn, Feeds Bond Rally

Fed Pulls Rug Out From Under Dollar

Ford’s Turkish Van Drives Into US Market

Frontier Markets Index Tracks New Asset Class

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