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Economics, Policy & Regulation

Milestones : Global Accounting Standard Moves Closer

UNITED STATES Accounting by numbers: Proponents of global standards say they reduce costs. More than 100 of the largest US public companies could be using international accounting standards by the end of next year ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Milestones : IMF Seeks To Buff Up Tarnished Image

UNITED STATES IMF: Many view it as responsible for causing, not reducing, poverty. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is not likely to win any popularity contests anywhere in the world these days. Emerging market governments have been ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Milestones : Oil Prices Slide Below $100 A Barrel, But Support Looms

GLOBAL All at sea: Oil prices have tumbled, but further steep falls are unlikely. Crude oil prices, which reached nearly $150 a barrel in July, fell below $100 a barrel for the first time ...

News

Milestones : Western Ally In Caspian Wins Kudos

AZERBAIJAN Azerbaijan's pro-business president, Ilham Aliyev. The regulatory reform movement that has been thriving in Central and Eastern Europe in recent years is spreading eastward into Central Asia, with Azerbaijan taking the title of the world’s ...

Banking

Newsmakers : Global Leaders Paint Bleak Picture

AUSTRIA Citi's Rhodes: Current crisis is the US' biggest challenge in recent history. With Bank of America buying Merrill Lynch and Lehman’s filing for bankruptcy, the global credit crunch is clearly far from over. In fact, a ...

News

Newsmakers : Medvedev Tries To Calm Russia Bears

RUSSIA Medvedev: Seemingly helpless in the face of a stock market rout. Can Russia’s president Dmitry Medvedev save the country’s financial markets? In the second week of September he declared that it was “within ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Newsmakers : Private Equity Investments Linked To Corporate Defaults

GLOBAL Vazza: Expects the default rate to continue growing. As private equity investors size up the new opportunities the credit crunch presents, companies in their sights might do well to consider a report published ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Newsmakers : Way Cleared For Jacob Zuma To Run For President

SOUTH AFRICA Zuma: Election victory all but assured after charges are dropped. South Africa’s High Court last month dropped all corruption charges against Jacob Zuma, president of the African National Congress (ANC). Although the decision was based ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Treasury & Cash Management Guide 2008

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance : Dow Breaks The Mold For Deal Financing

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS Midland, Michigan-based Dow Chemical forged an unusual alliance of bankers and investors to finance its $18.6 billion acquisition of specialty-chemicals maker Rohm and Haas. Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway and the Kuwait Investment Authority, a sovereign ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance : Global Ipo Activity Falters, With Fewer, But Larger, Issues Focused On Emerging Markets

GLOBAL EQUITY/DRS Strange as it may seem, there have been bigger initial public offerings since the credit crunch hit, but fewer of them. Global IPO activity reached an all-time high of $287 billion in proceeds in 2007 but ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance : Global Slowdown Could Benefit Dollar

FOREIGN EXCHANGE The dollar made strong and broad gains last month as commodity prices declined and economic data from Europe and Japan came in weaker than expected. Early signs of a global slowdown in real economic activity and falling oil ...