Emerging & Frontier Markets
Features : US Capacity Overhang Shifts Balance in Global Power Market
The global electric power industry is undergoing some sharp changes as the focus switches from developed to emerging markets. If...
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Milestones : Banks Start Cleaning Up Balance Sheets By Selling Bad Loans
CHINA A resolution will return Argentina to the financial community and cut its debt-to-GDP ratio to 90% from 150%. making...
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Milestones : Bankers Add Uncertainty To Argentina Debt Restructuring
ARGENTINA There was a time when investment banks lined up to participate in emerging market debt restructurings that gained them...
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Milestones : Caspian Oil And Pipeline Projects Get The Green Light
AZERBAIJAN The International Finance Corporations board has approved investments in two related Caspian oilfield and pipeline projects costing approximately $6.8...
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Milestones : Pfandbrief To Be Strengthened By Pending Legal Changes
GERMANY Moodys Investors Service has updated its rating methodology of the Pfandbrief in anticipation of amendments to the German Mortgage...
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Newsmakers : Former Goldman Sachs Economist Pleads Guilty In Treasury-bond Case
UNITED STATES John M. Youngdahl, a former senior economist at Goldman Sachs, pleaded guilty in November to federal criminal charges,...
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Newsmakers : Is Greenspan Heading For His Second Bush Showdown?
UNITED STATES Greenspan promised to be patient. But his patience run out at a bad time for President Bush. Alan...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Corporate Finance : Analysts Fear Dollar Decline Could Spin Out of Control
FOREIGN EXCHANGE THE AMERICAS Analysts Fear Dollar Decline Could Spin Out of Control The Bush administration is seeking an orderly...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Corporate Finance : Canada’s Manulife Acquires John Hancock Financial
MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS THE AMERICAS Canadas Manulife Acquires John Hancock Financial The theory that bigger is better in financial services...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Corporate Finance : Deutsche Bank Study Shows ADRs Boost Stock Prices
GLOBAL DEPOSITARY RECEIPTS EUROPE Deutsche Bank Study Shows ADRs Boost Stock Prices German blue-chip companies with American depositary receipt programs...
Banking
Cover Story : The Best Companies In Asia
ANNUAL SURVEY AIRLINES Singapore Airlines CEO: Chew Choon Seng It is a measure of Singapore Airlines strength that it took...
Banking
Cover Story : The Best Companies In Europe
ANNUAL SURVEY AIRLINES Ryanair CEO: Michael OLeahy Despite a setback in the French courts recently over aid from local governments,...