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Milestones : Snow Talks Up The Dollar To Avoid A Crash
CHINA, JAPAN The Group of 7 finance ministers and central bankers will face some thorny currency issues once again when...
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Newsmakers : Bush’s New Baby Causes Surprise All Round
UNITED STATES In his budget for FY 2005 the President promises to close loopholes, halt several abusive tax avoidance transactions,...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Corporate Finance : Business Investment Boosts Debt Issuance
THE AMERICAS US corporate bond issuance is getting a lift from increasing business investment, as well as improving credit quality,...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Corporate Finance : Dollar’s Rout Continues As Buyers Go on Strike
THE AMERICAS The US dollar gets no respect in the foreign exchange market these days, as traders hang around and...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Corporate Finance : St. Paul, Travelers to Merge In $16 Billion Stock Deal
THE AMERICAS St. Paul Companies and Travelers Property Casualty definitively agreed to merge in a $16.1 billion stock-swap transaction that...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Corporate Finance : US Accounting Rules Trip Up Foreign Issuers
THE AMERICAS In the past two years, foreign issuers of securities have agreed to pay a total of about $700...
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Cover Story : All Change
New banking regulations could have as profound an effect on global businesses as any of the recently drafted codes of...
Editor's Letter
Editor’s Letter : Brave New World
In this issue we bring together a number of disparate stories from around the world, including Brazil, Russia, the United States and Western Europe...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Features : Brazil Emerges From the Shadows
Global Finance brought together some of the key players in Brazil Day 2003 in a roundtable to discuss the state...
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Features : Bringing Brazil to Wall Street
In late November a group of executives from the top Brazilian companies visited New York City in order to bring...
News
Features : Online Business Invoicing Gathers Pace
Offerings get more sophisticated and better integrated with financing. The much-anticipated world of business presenting and viewing invoices online and...
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Features : The Russian Roller
The climate for investment in Russia has cooled since the Kremlin began an offensive on the countrys leading oligarch. But...