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Milestones : Green Begets More Green
EUROPE Fox: Expects continued growth in green spending While Europes companies are commonly thought to lead the world in corporate...
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Emerging & Frontier Markets
Milestones : Japan Takes Lead In Trade Finance Aid
GLOBAL Makoto Hosomi: Japanese companies will benefit, too Although the Doha round of world trade talks may have failed to...
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Milestones : Russia – Gazprom Wins Sakhalin-2 Skirmish
RUSSIA Sakhalin-2: Project is weighed down with a host of problems After a drawn-out scuffle, the story of Royal Dutch...
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Newsmakers : Debt Default Threat Rattles Investors
ECUADOR Rafael Correa: Setting off on the wrong foot with investors As Ecuadors new political leaders take the countrys helm,...
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Newsmakers : Paulson Bangs Gong Gently
UNITED STATES/CHINA Shaking the hand that feeds: Paulson meets Chinese premier Wen Jiabao As the year drew to a close,...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Corporate Finance : Central Banks Still Shifting From Dollar
Foreign Exchange A growing number of central banks are diversifying their foreign currency reserves away from the dollar and into...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Corporate Finance : High-yield Debt Sets Global Record In 2006
Corporate Debt A global wave of leveraged buyouts, which are financed with large amounts of high-yield bonds, is pushing the...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Corporate Finance : Hostile Takeovers Flare Up In Europe
Mergers & Acquisitions Announced hostile mergers and acquisitions of companies based in Europe in the first 10 months of this...
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Cover Story : The Backdating Game
Options backdating Already a handful of corporate heads have rolled as a result of the options backdating scandal. If regulators...
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Editor’s Letter : Limited Options
It may not have developed into the corporate bloodbath that many were expecting, but the stock options backdating scandal has taken a heavy toll on US business...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Emerging Markets : Consumer Stocks Often Overlooked
News Merrill Lynch analyst Richard Bernstein is bullish on consumer stocks in emerging markets. One of the prime rules of...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Emerging Markets : Government Gets Tough On Investors
China China registered a record high trade surplus of $23.8 billion in October, surpassing most analysts predictions and intensifying pressure...