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Editor’s Letter: Opportunity knocks
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Emerging & Frontier Markets
Emerging Markets : Heavy-Handed Tactics Cause International Alarm
RUSSIA Russia's actions in South Ossetia exacerbated a stock market slide. Russian markets have been in turmoil for a month after the country signaled its intent to move back up the geopolitical pecking order by marching its troops ...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Emerging Markets : In Olympian Bid For Global Respect
BRAZIL Petrobras head José Sergio Gabrielli: Prefers debt issue to equity. The Brazilian government is grappling with the reality of new offshore oil discoveries that could produce an estimated 50 billion barrels of oil, according to private ...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Emerging Markets : India’s Companies Continue Aggressive Acquisition Spree
INDIA Nano, no? Protests in West Bengal may derail Tata's plans to build the world's cheapest car. According to a survey by consultant KPMG, India’s companies are among the world’s most aggressive in buying companies based in ...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Emerging Markets : Inflation And Growth Decline
CHINA Slowdown: Automakers are seeing sales growth tail off in China. China’s consumer price index (CPI) grew by only 4.9% in August, its mildest pace in more than a year, and export growth slowed to 21%, according to ...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Emerging Markets : Infrastructure Fund In Controversy
AFRICA Unemployment and homelessness have risen sharply in Zimbabwe. Following the controversial reelection of president Robert Mugabe in June, Zimbabwe has fallen into even greater economic chaos. Officials said annual inflation leapt to 11.2 million percent in ...
Country Report
Features : Balancing Act
COUNTRY REPORT / TURKEY Turkey’s Islamist government has narrowly avoided a constitutional crisis, but it is still treading a fine line in its quest for economic progress. When Turkey’s constitutional court dismissed a move in July to outlaw the ...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Features : Power Play
ANALYSIS / RUSSIA’S GEORGIA GAMBIT Russia’s recent assault on Georgia raises some scary prospects for European nations dependent on energy supplies from West Asia. Double act: Vladimir Putin passed the presidency to Dmitry Medvedev but still retains much ...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Milestones : IMF Seeks To Buff Up Tarnished Image
UNITED STATES IMF: Many view it as responsible for causing, not reducing, poverty. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is not likely to win any popularity contests anywhere in the world these days. Emerging market governments have been ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Corporate Finance : Global Slowdown Could Benefit Dollar
FOREIGN EXCHANGE The dollar made strong and broad gains last month as commodity prices declined and economic data from Europe and Japan came in weaker than expected. Early signs of a global slowdown in real economic activity and falling oil ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Cover Story : Sustainable Progress
<p>LESSONS FROM EUROPE Corporate comprehension of the benefits of going green is far more advanced in Europe than in the US. But America’s businesses could easily catch up. Stark differences: Europe and the US have taken very different ...</p>