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Banking

Breaking Free Of The Broken Banks

Spotlight State-Run Banks In the wake of the global crisis in the banking sector, governments that have become sole or partial owners of troubled banks are contemplating their options. By Nick Kochan The future of many of ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance: China Removes IPO Ban As Market Soars

Global Equity/DRs By Gordon Platt China opened the floodgates to new share offerings in June, releasing a torrent of initial public offerings to help soak up excess liquidityand cool an overheating stock market. The removal of the government’s ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance: Credit Spreads Return To Pre-crisis Levels

Corporate Debt By Gordon Platt The interest rate spreads on corporate bonds to US treasury securities narrowed in July to levels that existed before Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy protection in September 2008, as investors increased their risk-taking ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance: Dollar Secure In Its Role As World’s Key Reserve Currency, Analysts Say

Foreign Exchange By Gordon Platt Calls for a super-sovereign reserve currency to replace the dollar are going nowhere fast. The Teflon dollar is brushing off everything thrown at it by the BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China), ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance: Worldwide M&a Activity Continues To Slide

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS By Gordon Platt The statistics on global dealmaking activity show no signs of improvement, despite some recent easing of the credit crisis and widespread opportunities for investment in distressed sectors. The value of worldwide mergers ...

News

Editor’s Letter: Out Of The Woods?

It is entirely fitting that 2009, the 150th anniversary of the publication of the Charles Darwins On the Origin of Species, should turn out to be a particularly Darwinian year...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets: Indian Companies Tap Rising Foreign Appetite For Shares

DR News Indian Companies Tap Rising Foreign Appetite for Shares Indian companies seeking funds for expansion or to retire debt are tapping into a growing foreign appetite for their shares. Tata Steel raised $500 million on the London ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets: Rise In Copper Prices Puts Shine On Chinese Producer

Company To Watch: Jiangxi Copper/China Rise in Copper Prices Puts Shine on Chinese Producer Jiangxi Copper, based in Guixi City in China’s inland Jiangxi Province, is the country’s largest producer of the red metal. It owns all five ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets: Russian Retailers’ Stocks Selling At Steep Discount

News Russian Retailers’ Stocks Selling At Steep Discount As a big emerging market, Russia offers opportunities for growth in the consumer sector, analysts say. For investors willing to look beyond the major oil stocks, which already have risen ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Features: A Region in Transition

Economic Update Central Asia The former Soviet republics of Central Asia are undergoing dramatic and sometimes painful change as they attempt to modernize their economies and to exploit their vast reserves of natural resources. By Paula L. Green ...

Country Report

Features: Country Report-Spain

A TOUGH ROAD AHEAD Spain’s banks and savings institutions are still reeling from the collapse of the country’s housing market. By Antonio Guerrero With Spain experiencing its deepest recession in 60 years, its banking sector stands at ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Features: Funding A Cleaner World

Businesses, banks and governments are working together to create financing tools to fund the green revolution. By Paula L. Green Cajoled, prodded and pushed by presidents, regulators, legislators and international diplomats, multinationals are slowly realizing the time has ...