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Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Corporate Finance : Brazilian Companies Lead Rush By Latin American Issuers To Tap Us Private-placement Market
Corporate financing news / global equity/drs Latin American equity capital markets had their biggest month ever in July, with $9.6 billion in proceeds from 23 issues, an increase of 48% from the previous record of $6.5 billion set ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Corporate Finance : Dollar Hits The Skids As Us Rate Cut Looms
Foreign exchange / corporate financing news The dollar fell to a 15-year low against a basket of currencies in early August as the level of the federal funds futures contract forecast a cut in US interest rates before ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Corporate Finance : High-yield Market Closes For Repricing
Corporate debt / corporate financing news The high-yield bond market in the United States all but shut down for new issues in July, as subprime mortgage losses led to a repricing of corporate credit risk and an end ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Corporate Finance : M&a Activity To Stay Hot In Some Sectors
Mergers & acquisitions / corporate financing news Global announced mergers and acquisitions totaled $550 billion in July, more than double the total for the same month a year earlier, according to Dealogic, but tighter credit conditions threaten to ...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Cover Story : Living On The Edge
CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE The EU’s newest members struggle to balance growth with stability. Prague's stock exchange is one of many in the region that are attracting foreign investors. Despite recent political maneuverings by Russian president Vladimir Putin, ...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Cover Story : Waiting In The Wings
EU ACCESSION HOPEFULS Preparing their economies for entry to the European Union is yielding dramatic results for accession candidates and providing inspiration for those that aspire to follow them. Kiev: Banking market set for sharp growth. While EU accession ...
News
Editor’s Letter : Business As Usual
As Global Finance was going to press this month, the world's financial markets were in a terrible state...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Emerging Markets : Chinese company lists in tokyo
Company to watch: china boqi environmental solutions technology / china Based in Beijing, one of the world’s most polluted cities, China Boqi Environmental Solutions Technology has plenty of work to do. “Environmental protection is a big task as ...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Emerging Markets : Errant Manufacturers Feel The Heat
China Cost concerns: Rising food prices are fueling inflation. Investors anxious about overheating in the Chinese market had more cause for concern this month as China’s National Bureau of Statistics revealed that consumer prices rose by 5.6%, year ...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Emerging Markets : International banks enjoy Brazilian boom times
Brazil Brazil’s strong capital markets recovery and IPO blitz has prompted international investment banks to put the country back on their radars. Lehman Brothers, which exited Brazil in 2003 amid a near market collapse, has reopened its São ...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Emerging Markets : Investors shift into safety first mode
News Institutional investors are showing a marked preference for developed market equities over emerging market shares as they rein in risk in their portfolios in response to recent market volatility, according to a research report by State Street ...