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Emerging & Frontier Markets
Regulars : Brazil energy and power ADRs to trade over the counter
DR NEWS BY GP Two energy and power companies controlled by Brazilian mining magnate Eike Batista’s EBX Group have created sponsored American depositary receipt programs to trade in the over-the-counter market, according to The Bank of New York ...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Regulars : EM Roundup Africa
The International Finance Corporation (IFC) estimates less than a quarter of Africans have access to electricity, and those who do pay twice the average retail rate of users in other emerging regions. By Antonio Guerrero A report from ...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Regulars : EM Roundup Brazil
The latest news from Brazil. Just three years after acquiring Brazil’s Banco Pactual investment bank for some $2.5 billion, UBS is selling the bank back to its previous owners for roughly the same amount. By Antonio Guerrero The ...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Regulars : EM Roundup China
China’s international trade continued to weaken in April, with both exports and imports falling for the sixth straight month. By Thomas Clouse Strong investment growth, however, may offset some effects of this slackening international trade. According to ...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Regulars : EM Roundup India
Following the Congress (I) party’s best federal election showing since 1991, India’s stock markets began to price in an acceleration in the pace of economic reforms. By Aaron Chaze The equity indexes reported the best one-day showing in ...
Banking
Regulars : EM Roundup Middle East
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, the US-based private equity firm, received a license to operate from the Dubai International Financial Center. By Gordon Platt The building in which the firm, whose 1988 leveraged buyout of RJR Nabisco was chronicled in ...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Regulars : EM Roundup Russia
Amid expectations that the Russian economy had hit bottom, and despite a solid bounce in commodity prices since the beginning of the year, bad news continued to pile up. By Kim Iskyan Industrial production shrank by 17% in ...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Regulars : India’s consumers watching prices
COMPANY TO WATCH: HINDUSTAN UNILEVER/INDIA BY GP Mumbai-based Hindustan Unilever (HUL) sells soaps, tea, detergents and shampoos to more than 700 million Indian consumers, reaching two out of every three of the country’s inhabitants. As India’s largest consumer ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Regulars : Mergers & Acquisitions
PEPSI PUTS SOME FIZZ BACK IN M&A; MARKET Merger and acquisition activity is returning to a semblance of normality, with a series of significant deals in industries other than financial services. While financing remains constrained, stock-swap transactions and cash deals ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Regulars : Milestones : Global
Before the credit crunch took a massive bite out of global economic activity, oil prices were heading skyward, and fears that supplies might actually run out were rampant. By Anita Hawser Although the subsequent economic malaise sent energy ...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Regulars : Milestones : Latin American
Latin American markets are feeling the global financial pinch, and ratings agencies are taking notice, with downgrades soon to follow. By Antonio Guerrero Standard & Poor’s downgraded El Salvador from BB+ to BB last month, and it seems ...