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Newsmakers : Putting A Roof On Energy Bills

UNITED STATES Naimon: Companies are keen to use third-party finance. As the solar energy industry struggles to improve its photovoltaic technology, a viable financing model may provide the missing link to the market. Almost two years ago, HSH ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance : Worst May Be Over For The Dollar, But Analysts Say Rebound Unlikely Before Fed Stops Cutting Rates

FOREIGN EXCHANGE Following the dollar’s worst quarterly loss against the euro since 2004—a drop of 8.4% in the first three months of this year—currency analysts are watching for signs that the greenback could be ready to make a ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Editor’s Letter: Food For Thought

Just as the financial world was breathing a sigh of relief amid signs that the worst of the credit crunch was over, another, potentially more serious, crisis has emerged...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : Economy Set To Pass Germany’s

CHINA Pro-Tibetan protests have dogged the run-up to the Beijing Olympics. China upwardly revised its 2006 and 2007 gross domestic product (GDP) growth numbers, pushing the country closer to surpassing Germany to become the world’s third-largest economy. According ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : Growth Remains Strong But External Threats Increase

AFRICA Botswana's new president, Seretse Ian Khama. Economic growth in sub-Saharan Africa is set to continue strongly this year, according to the International Monetary Fund, which says the region is “better placed today to withstand a worsening of ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : India Targets $200 Billion Exports For 2008-2009

INDIA Indian automobile manufacturers are scaling up production, unfazed by rising inflation. The Indian commerce ministry has announced that it has set India’s export target at $200 billion for 2008-2009. This export target is a part of India’s ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : Putin Prepares For Life After Presidency

RUSSIA Putin: He may find it hard to play second fiddle. With relations between Russia and the West at post-Cold War lows, US president George Bush met with Russian president Vladimir Putin in early April in Sochi, Russia, ...

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Features : Funds Managers

FUNDS MANAGERS SPONSORED ROUNDTABLE Global Finance brings together a group of experts to discuss recent developments in the industry. Global Finance: SEPA credit transfers went live on January 28 of this year. What has been the experience of banks and ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Features : The Green Keeps Flowing To Green

SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS Financial turmoil and an economy on the brink of recession are testing US companies’ determination to reduce their environmental impact. Growing fears about a global economic slowdown and the credit crunch wreaked havoc on global financial ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Features: Credit crunch? What credit crunch?

CENTRAL & EASTERN EUROPE Despite continuing political upheaval, many countries in Central and Eastern Europe are more concerned about reining in their buoyant economies than surviving the global economic downturn. Although the politics in Warsaw may be "noisy," ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Editor’s Letter: Welcome to globalization 2.0

Readers might find flipping through this months issue makes their heads spin...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : Issuers Seek To Repurchase Their Foreign Bonds

India ICICI Bank: One of the Indian banks repurchasing bonds. Indian banks and corporate bond issuers in international markets are taking advantage of the widening credit spreads and tightening liquidity conditions in global bond markets ...