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Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance : Chinas Solar-energy Ipos Getting Bigger

Global equity/drs     China-based manufacturers of products that convert the sun’s rays to electricity are raising growing sums of money on Wall Street to expand their production facilities to meet expanding demand for alternative energy in the face of ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance : Dollar Regains Footing As Fed Gets Vigilant

Foreign exchange     Prospects for a Federal Reserve interest rate cut later this year have given way to worries that the Fed’s tightening cycle may not be over. With the outlook for monetary policy playing a large part in ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance : Europe Widens Lead Over Us In Mergers

Mergers & acquisitions     Milan-based UniCredito Italiano’s agreement to merge with Rome-based bank Capitalia in a stock-swap transaction valued at $29.5 billion has widened Europe’s lead over the United States in announced M&A; activity so far this year. Thanks ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Cover Story : A Changing Agenda

Latin America     There is no longer any doubt that Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez’s “Bolivarian Revolution” is having a significant economic and political impact on Latin America. The question now is, Will it last? It’s 11 o’clock in the ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : Em Debt Trading Sets Record

News     The value of trading in emerging markets fixed-income instruments totaled $1.7 trillion in the first quarter of 2007, an increase of 4% from the same period a year earlier, according to EMTA, formerly the Emerging Markets Traders ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : Financial Sector Reforms Promised

China     China will further open its financial sector following the second Strategic Economic Dialogue in Washington, DC, in May. As a result of the meeting, China will ease restrictions on foreign securities firms, allow foreign banks to issue ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : Russian Bank’s Gdr Issue Is 2,000th Dr Program

Dr news     Russia’s state-controlled Vneshtorgbank (VTB) raised nearly $8 billion in its sale of a 22.5% stake in the company, making it Russia’s seventh-largest company by market capitalization. VTB selected The Bank of New York as the depositary ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : Telecom Places $1 Billion Order

Company to watch: china mobile/china     Hong Kong-based China Mobile is the largest mobile telecom services provider in China, with more than 300 million subscribers and a market share of 67.5%. In June the company placed a $1 billion ...
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