Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Economic Slowdown Could Benefit Dollar
CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS – FOREIGN EXCHANGE By Gordon Platt The world economic recovery may be slowing more rapidly than previously...
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Emerging & Frontier Markets
Emerging Markets Investor
EMERGING MARKETS INVESTOR: NEWS By Gordon Platt India's equity market indices have gained more than 80% since early 2009, but the market lacks depth and breadth, with a high concentration of trading in a few top companies, according ...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Emerging Markets: Chinese Firm’s ADRs Trade On OTC International
Investor: DR News By Gordon Platt Shandong Luoxin Pharmacy Stock Company has become the first China-based firm to trade American depositary receipts (ADRs) on the over-the-counter market’s premier platform, OTCQX International. Based in Linyi City in the eastern ...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Emerging Markets: LLX Logística/Brazil Brazilian Port Attracts Chinese Auto And Steel Firms
Investor: Company to watch By Gordon Platt LLX Logística was created in 2007 by Eike Batista-controlled EBX Group to build three large private ports serving southeastern Brazil, a region that accounts for more than 75% of the country’s ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Emerging Markets: Microfinance Funds Get FX Hedging Help
Investor: News By Gordon Platt Hedging currency exposure in illiquid and volatile frontier markets is about to get easier for investment funds focused on microfinance. Cygma Fund, based in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, is being set up as a ...
Banking
Emerging Markets: Middle East
ROUNDUP By Gordon Platt The six member countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) agreed at a meeting in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, last month to postpone a planned customs union for several additional years. At the exceptional meeting ...
Banking
Features: Country Report – Saudia Arabia
SPREADING THE WEALTH Saudi Arabia's industrial base is already the largest in the Middle East, and its service sector is growing rapidly. By Gordon Platt With more than 20% of the world's oil reserves, Saudi Arabia stands ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
High-Yield Bond Issuance Surges
CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS — CORPORATE DEBT By Gordon Platt August was supposed to be a sleepy month in the high-yield debt market, but it turned out to be anything but quiet. Total high-yield issuance in the US for ...
Economics, Policy & Regulation
Milestones: SEC Issues Wake-up Call On Climate-Change Disclosure
United States By Gordon Platt All change: Climate risk moves up the corporate agenda The US Securities and Exchange Commission opened a can of worms with its decision to require companies to consider the effects of climate change ...
Economics, Policy & Regulation
Newsmakers: IMF Shakes Up Policy Advice Of Crisis
Global By Gordon Platt Blanchard: Policymakers should use all the tools available Economists who thought they had figured out how to keep national economies growing and inflation under control by simply focusing on short-term interest rates have learned ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Petrobras Sale Clears Way for IPOs
CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS — GLOBAL EQUITY/DRS By Gordon Platt Petrobras, Brazil's state-run oil company, was scheduled to come to market with $35 billion of shares as Global Finance went to press. That would make the sale the world's ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Resource Battle Turns To Potash
CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS - MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS By Gordon Platt The cross-border battle for global resources is now focused on potash, with BHP Billiton's $43 billion hostile bid for Saskatoon-based Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan, the world's largest producer ...