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Newsmakers : Claiming The Spoils Of War
BULGARIA Bulgaria never heard the words odious debt when we were asked to repay. Milen Veltchev, Bulgarias Finance minister Bulgarias...
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Newsmakers : Corporate Criminals Begin Drawing Jail Time
UNITED STATES June may be a good month for weddings and graduations, but this rainy June in the US Northeast...
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Newsmakers : Spicing Up The Street
UNITED STATES Sex, money and power have always been closely related, and on a recent morning in New York City...
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Newsmakers : Trouble At The Landesbanken
GERMANY The departure in June of CEO Jrgen Sengera from WestLB raised as many questions as it answered about the...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Corporate Finance : Global Depositary Receipts
EUROPE Six Continents Split-Up Creates Two New ADRs Two new American depositary receipt programs were created in April as a...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Corporate Finance : Hong Kong’s Peg Could Come Loose
ASIA Hong Kongs budget deficit keeps getting bigger, while deflation has been consistently underestimated, analysts say. The special administrative regions...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Corporate Finance : Low US Interest Rates Spur Dollar Bears
THE AMERICAS The US dollar plummeted to a four-year low against the euro in early May, giving foreign investors little...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Corporate Finance : Market Extends Gains To Sixth Month in Row
THE AMERICAS US corporate bonds extended their bull-market run to a sixth consecutive month in April, with highyielding issues leading...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Corporate Finance : Russia’s Oil Revenue Supports the Ruble
EUROPE The ruble crisis seems like a distant memory. In August 1998, the Russian central bank threw in the towel.With...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Corporate Finance : Yukos-Sibneft Union Forms World’s No. 4 Oil Producer
RUSSIA Beating covetous Western oil interests to the prize, Russias largest oil company, Yukos, agreed to buy Sibneft, another major...
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Cover Story : Turkish Turbulence
The countrys reform program is on trackjust. Recep Erdogan: Wants higher growth It was never going to be easy, but...
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Editor’s Letter : Dear Reader
Does the steady fall in the dollar matter? Not if US economic policy makers are to be believed...