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Milestones : India’s Banking System Begins To Upgrade Itself

INDIA It may be robust but the Indian banking system is anything but fast. Even checks paid within Mumbai (Bombay),...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

EMERGING MARKETS Enrique V. Iglesias The stars appear to have aligned in favor of the emerging markets. Strong growth, easing...

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SOUTH KOREA Lee Hun-Jae The South Korean won suffered its biggest decline since November on news that the progovernment Uri...

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MEXICO Guillermo Prieto Trevio, president of the Mexican Stock Exchange, picked a good time to come to New York to...

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UNITED STATES/CHINA Tim Halter Chinese companies that trade on US stock markets offer some comfort to investors seeking to catch...

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UNITED STATES Alan Greenspan No matter how careful he is with his words, Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan is going...

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SRI LANKA Mahinda Rajapakse Sri Lankas newly appointed finance minister Sarath Amunugama and Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapakse have already gone...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

THE AMERICAS Comcast, the biggest cable-TV operator in the US, made an unsolicited offer to buy Walt Disney, the American...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

SOUTH AFRICA South African companies that find themselves ignored by analysts in developed countries can get noticed by issuing American...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

THE AMERICAS The US dollar rebounded sharply in early March, recording its biggest jump in a year against the euro...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

THE AMERICAS Bond prices soared and yields slumped in early March, as the US employment data surprised market participants once...

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The business climate turned sharply colder in Russia during the second half of 2003, and its not gotten much better...