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Country Report

Features: Growth interrupted

COUNTRY REPORT: SOUTH AFRICA Flagging global growth, an ongoing energy shortage and increasing wage and inflation pressures are weighing heavily on South Africa’s economy. In a hole: South Africa's mining industry has been badly affected by recent power ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Focus: Nafta : Who’s Who In Nafta

Nafta Focus Global Finance names the most influential and important people in Nafta commerce and finance. Gastón Azcárraga Andrade President, Consejo Mexicano de Hombres de Negocios, and CEO, Grupo Posadas Mexico Gastón Azcárraga Andrade has been CEO of Grupo Posadas, ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Milestones : Colombia Gains Ground In Andean Standoff

Colombia/ecuador/venezuela Uribe: Used the standoff to push US-Colombia trade deal After Venezuela and Ecuador sent troops to their borders with Colombia, in response to Colombia’s attack on FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) rebels within Ecuadorian territory on ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Milestones : Panama Pushes For Investment Grade

Panama Digging in: Work is now under way on the $5.25 billion expansion of the Panama Canal. Although Brazil appears poised to become Latin America’s next investment-grade-rated sovereign, a tiny country may beat the giant to the punch. ...

News

Milestones : Shekel To Become Fully Convertible

Israel All change: Israel’s currency is set to take its place in the world markets. The Bank of Israel has joined the New York-based CLS (Continuous Linked Settlement) Bank (a multi-currency bank supervised by the US Federal Reserve ...

News

Newsmakers : Ackermann Proposes Global Overseer

Germany Ackermann: Global watchdog could prevent market bubbles Deutsche Bank CEO Josef Ackermann suggests that creating a global financial sector watchdog could prevent an encore of the global market storm unleashed by the US subprime crisis. ...

News

Newsmakers : Airline Aims To Make Friends In High Places

Germany Hunt: Legacy airlines lock in customers with "bribery" In a move that is clearly aimed at drumming up corporate business, upstart UK-based business-class-only airline Silverjet has rolled out an innovative loyalty program that takes the benefits ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Cover Story : Continental Shift

LATIN AMERICA REGIONAL REPORT Latin American governments’ attempts to gain more control over their countries’ economic fortunes are having far-reaching effects on international corporations doing business in the region. Left in charge: Brazilian president Lula da Silva ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Author: GFMag.com Admin

Features: Growth interrupted

Focus: Nafta : Who’s Who In Nafta

Milestones : Colombia Gains Ground In Andean Standoff

Milestones : Panama Pushes For Investment Grade

Milestones : Shekel To Become Fully Convertible

Newsmakers : Ackermann Proposes Global Overseer

Newsmakers : Airline Aims To Make Friends In High Places

Cover Story : Continental Shift

Cover Story : Mexico

Editor’s Letter : A new world view

Emerging Markets : Foreign Investment Limits Tumble

Emerging Markets : Miner Eyes Record-Breaking Deal