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Milestones : Not All Convinced By Russia’s Investment-grade Status
RUSSIA Russia has long been a destination for more adventurous investors, but at the beginning of last month it finally...
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Milestones : Will Statistical Fog Ground Bank Of England?
UNITED KINGDOM It is worth asking whether the statistical fog enveloping the UK economy foreshadows stormy economic weather. Mervyn King,...
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Newsmakers : Markets Can’t Seem To Catch Snow’s Drift
UNITED STATES US treasury secretary John Snow stumbled into a storm in late October after suggesting to a British newspaper...
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Newsmakers : Mexican Billionaire Goes On Telephony Shopping Spree
MEXICO Despite a strong recovery in Latin American stocks this year, the regions stock valuations remain cheap by international standards....
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Newsmakers : New York Detective Puts The Boot In With Barclays
UNITED STATES Retired New York City police detective Jon Kanovsky says he felt helpless and hopeless after his friend New...
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Newsmakers : New York Fed’s New Chief May Be The Man To Save The Dollar
UNITED STATES Foreign exchange market participants are relieved to have somebody who understands their market in the second most powerful...
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Corporate Finance : Bond Market’s Sell-off May Not Be Over Yet
THE AMERICAS The bond market has fallen so far since Friday the 13th of June, that comparisons are being made...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Corporate Finance : Citigroup Pays $5 Billion For Sears’ Credit Card Unit
THE AMERICAS Citigroup agreed to acquire the credit card and financial products business of Illinois-based Sears, Roebuck for an estimated...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Corporate Finance : Telecom Leads Parade Of Taiwan-Based Issuers
ASIA Taiwans Chunghwa Telecom raised $1.4 billion through a new issue of American depositary receipts in July, as the Taiwan...
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Cover Story : Asia
AUSTRALIA AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND BANKING GROUP ANZ Banking Group, the smallest of the four-largest Australian banks, expects to meet...
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Cover Story : Europe
AUSTRIA BANK AUSTRIA CREDITANSTALT Austrias largest banking group, with total assets of approximately $166 billion, has just become Europes largest...
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Cover Story : Latin America
ARGENTINA NOT AWARDED BOLIVIA BANCO BISA Banco Bisa continues to be the best performer in a country slogging through political...