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Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : Funds Make Hay In Frothy Market

BRAZIL The good times roll: Brazil's economy provides plenty of reasons to celebrate. Brazil-focused hedge funds continued to outperform other emerging market funds, producing an average 5.11% return in October, for a hefty 29.47% year-to-date (YTD) gain. ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : Panama And Its Airline Enjoy Boom

COMPANY TO WATCH: COPA HOLDINGS/PANAMA Panama, a natural transportation hub with its famous canal, has become an air-transport center for the Americas, thanks to its national flag carrier, Copa Airlines. The fast-growing airline with a young fleet ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : Plus Ça Change…

RUSSIA Putin: Backing his friend Dmitry Medvedev's election bid. As widely anticipated, Russian president Vladimir Putin’s United Russia party won the country’s parliamentary elections on December 2, with 63% of the vote. In the weeks running up ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : Road Spending Moves Into A Higher Gear

INDIA Hold-up: Aging roads are hindering Indias growth. Twenty leading global and Indian infrastructure construction companies are bidding for the contract to build a $10 billion eight-lane expressway in the northern Indian state of Uttar ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : Tensions Rise With The United States

CHINA Hong Kong: Focus of tension with the US. China stoked military tension with the United States by denying entry to a number of US naval vessels looking to dock in Hong Kong. In the most publicized ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Features : A Mission To India

HEALTHCARE CHARITY Global Finance charity partner Amrit Davaa spent two weeks in India providing healthcare to children at a remote orphanage and to locals. Editor Dan Keeler accompanied the medical team on its mission. Dr Becki Giusti checks ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Features : Adapting To Survive

SECTOR REPORT / PRIVATE EQUITY Cash-heavy buyout firms are still looking for deals, but the rising cost of borrowing may result in their emulating their smaller private equity cousins. Just a few months ago there were ...

Country Report

Features : Country Report: Iceland

EXPANDING HORIZONS ICELAND Iceland is going all out to expand its economy—and the global reach of its banks and corporations. With a wealthy consumer base that has the sixth-highest per capita GDP in the OECD, 0.8% unemployment, negligible ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Features : Sponsored Roundtable: Treasury & Cash Management

BRANCHING OUT Advances in technology are helping treasury and cash management specialists provide their organizations and clients with greater depth and breadth of services. Gary Greenwald heads global capabilities and information products for global transaction services cash management ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Features : Worlds Best Foreign Exchange Banks 2008

ANNUAL SURVEY/ BEST FX BANKS The 54 central banks and monetary authorities that took a measure of the foreign exchange market last year under the auspices of the Bank for International Settlements discovered an unprecedented rise ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Milestones : China Faces Growing Skills Shortage

CHINA Filling up: China’s consumers may face shortages soon. While the Chinese horoscope attributes such auspicious qualities as intelligence, charisma and compassion to those born in the Year of the Rat, which begins on February 7, ...

News

Newsmakers : Cruz Becomes Casualty Of Wall Street’s Credit Crunch

UNITED STATES Gardner: More companies are signing up to going green. Global investors, institutions and corporates are increasingly looking to improve their sustainability profile, according to a report by the Worldwatch Institute released in January. The report, ...