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Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance : Chinese Companies Lead Parade Of Asian Issuers

ASIA Semiconductor Manufacturing International, or SMIC, Chinas biggest memory-chip maker, launched a sponsored American depositary receipt program in conjunction with...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance : Floating-Rate Issues Becoming Popular

THE AMERICAS When Calpine Generating, a subsidiary of California-based power producer Calpine, came to market in late February with a...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance : Strong Us Economic Data Give Dollar Some Vitality

THE AMERICAS The outlook for the US dollar brightened considerably following a surge in March non-farm payrolls, retail sales and...

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Cover Story : Is China The New Japan?

As fears grow that Chinas economy may be dangerously overheated, analysts are increasingly drawing parallels with Japans experience over the...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : Businesses And Banks Ride Wave Of India’s Popularity

INDIA The rupee hit a 57-month high against the dollar, rising to Rs43.3 on April 2. During March the rupee...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : Central Bank Turns The Screws

CHINA Chinas central bank has pledged to restrain runaway investment and prevent asset bubbles from creating more bad loans.The People’s...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : Lula’s Honeymoon Is Over

BRAZIL Lula: Out in the cold? Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silvas unexpectedly pragmatic and market-friendly attitude helped endear...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : Reform, A Mea Culpa, And Investing Abroad

RUSSIA Yukos’s Khodorkovsky Markets responded positively to the re-election of Russian President Vladimir Putin and to indications that he will...

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Features : Asia’s Other Tiger

India recently overtook China as Asias fastest-growing economy. Its showing no signs of slowing down. India has long been a...

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Features : Moving

New instruments, government enthusiasm and a growing market are driving Islamic finance toward the mainstream. When Malaysia first laid the...

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Features : National Bank of Kuwait

MIDDLE EAST AND AFRICA Rising oil revenues and the fall of Saddam Husseins regime have boosted Kuwaits economy and created...

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Features : Offerings Market Heats Up

The European IPO market is building up an impressive head of steam, but investors arent prepared to buy just anything....