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Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : Russia’s Electricity Spin-Offs Create 11 New Dr Programs

DR NEWS Eleven new companies, spun off from Russia’s former electricity monopoly, selected The Bank of New York Mellon as the depositary for their Regulation S and Rule 144A global depositary receipt programs. The bank is ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Milestones : Oil Prices Slide Below $100 A Barrel, But Support Looms

GLOBAL All at sea: Oil prices have tumbled, but further steep falls are unlikely. Crude oil prices, which reached nearly $150 a barrel in July, fell below $100 a barrel for the first time ...

News

Milestones : Western Ally In Caspian Wins Kudos

AZERBAIJAN Azerbaijan's pro-business president, Ilham Aliyev. The regulatory reform movement that has been thriving in Central and Eastern Europe in recent years is spreading eastward into Central Asia, with Azerbaijan taking the title of the world’s ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Newsmakers : Way Cleared For Jacob Zuma To Run For President

SOUTH AFRICA Zuma: Election victory all but assured after charges are dropped. South Africa’s High Court last month dropped all corruption charges against Jacob Zuma, president of the African National Congress (ANC). Although the decision was based ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance : Dow Breaks The Mold For Deal Financing

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS Midland, Michigan-based Dow Chemical forged an unusual alliance of bankers and investors to finance its $18.6 billion acquisition of specialty-chemicals maker Rohm and Haas. Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway and the Kuwait Investment Authority, a sovereign ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance : Global Ipo Activity Falters, With Fewer, But Larger, Issues Focused On Emerging Markets

GLOBAL EQUITY/DRS Strange as it may seem, there have been bigger initial public offerings since the credit crunch hit, but fewer of them. Global IPO activity reached an all-time high of $287 billion in proceeds in 2007 but ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance : Hunt Continues For Way To End Credit Crunch

CORPORATE DEBT More than a year after the credit crunch burst onto the global stage, regulators and banks are still searching for a way to end the crisis, which appears to be morphing into a chronic condition. The ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : Dongfeng Motor

CHINA’S AUTO MARKET REMAINS IN FAST LANE COMPANY TO WATCH China’s love affair with the automobile shows no sign of cooling. The world’s most populous country is also the fastest-growing new-car market, with sales increasing at a rate ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : FTSE Indexes Add Frontier Markets

NEWS FTSE Group has extended its Global Equity Index Series to include 23 frontier markets, including such countries as Bangladesh, Botswana, Tunisia and Vietnam. “Frontier equity markets today represent more than $1 trillion in capitalization and are becoming ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Author: Gordon Platt

Emerging Markets : Russia’s Electricity Spin-Offs Create 11 New Dr Programs

Milestones : Oil Prices Slide Below $100 A Barrel, But Support Looms

Milestones : Western Ally In Caspian Wins Kudos

Newsmakers : Way Cleared For Jacob Zuma To Run For President

Corporate Finance : Dow Breaks The Mold For Deal Financing

Corporate Finance : Global Ipo Activity Falters, With Fewer, But Larger, Issues Focused On Emerging Markets

Corporate Finance : Hunt Continues For Way To End Credit Crunch

Emerging Markets : Dongfeng Motor

Emerging Markets : FTSE Indexes Add Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : GE And Abu Dhabi Form $8 Billion Joint Venture

Emerging Markets : IPO Capital Raised Using DRs Plummets In First Half

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