Emerging & Frontier Markets
Editor’s letter : Mature, but not grown up
In our cover story this month, we investigate the idea that this could be Asias big breakout year...
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Emerging & Frontier Markets
Emerging Markets : Funds Make Hay In Frothy Market
BRAZIL The good times roll: Brazil's economy provides plenty of reasons to celebrate. Brazil-focused hedge funds continued to outperform other emerging market funds, producing an average 5.11% return in October, for a hefty 29.47% year-to-date (YTD) gain. ...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Emerging Markets : Plus Ça Change…
RUSSIA Putin: Backing his friend Dmitry Medvedev's election bid. As widely anticipated, Russian president Vladimir Putin’s United Russia party won the country’s parliamentary elections on December 2, with 63% of the vote. In the weeks running up ...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Emerging Markets : Road Spending Moves Into A Higher Gear
INDIA Hold-up: Aging roads are hindering Indias growth. Twenty leading global and Indian infrastructure construction companies are bidding for the contract to build a $10 billion eight-lane expressway in the northern Indian state of Uttar ...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Emerging Markets : Tensions Rise With The United States
CHINA Hong Kong: Focus of tension with the US. China stoked military tension with the United States by denying entry to a number of US naval vessels looking to dock in Hong Kong. In the most publicized ...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Features : A Mission To India
HEALTHCARE CHARITY Global Finance charity partner Amrit Davaa spent two weeks in India providing healthcare to children at a remote orphanage and to locals. Editor Dan Keeler accompanied the medical team on its mission. Dr Becki Giusti checks ...
Country Report
Features : Country Report: Iceland
EXPANDING HORIZONS ICELAND Iceland is going all out to expand its economy—and the global reach of its banks and corporations. With a wealthy consumer base that has the sixth-highest per capita GDP in the OECD, 0.8% unemployment, negligible ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Features : Sponsored Roundtable: Treasury & Cash Management
BRANCHING OUT Advances in technology are helping treasury and cash management specialists provide their organizations and clients with greater depth and breadth of services. Gary Greenwald heads global capabilities and information products for global transaction services cash management ...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Emerging Markets : Bovespa Enjoys Ipo Bonanza
BRAZIL São Paulo stock exchange Bovespa Holding, which owns the São Paulo stock exchange, raised nearly $3.7 billion in an IPO that ranks as Latin America’s largest offering this year. Bovespa sold 250 million shares on October 26, ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Corporate Finance : Record Year For M&a Crawling To Finish
MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS The year 2007 already has set an all-time record for the value of worldwide mergers and acquisitions, thanks to the growing influence of private equity funds and attractive financing opportunities earlier this year. However, deteriorating ...
News
Editor’s Letter : A New Era Dawns
We at Global Finance are much like the child born on an important holiday who grows up confusing the holidays celebration with his own birthday...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Emerging Markets : Chinese Firm Becomes First $1 Trillion Company
CHINA PetroChina’s stock soared in initial trading on the Shanghai stock exchange China’s state-owned energy giant PetroChina Co. in early November surpassed ExxonMobil to become the world’s most valuable company. Shares of PetroChina rose from 16.7 yuan to ...