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Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : Frontier Markets Draw Value Hunters

News The lure of potentially high returns at lower prices than the big emerging markets is attracting value-seeking institutional investors to smaller “frontier” markets such as Bangladesh, Pakistan, Angola and Mongolia. “To me, China and Hong Kong are expensive, but ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : Indias Little Car Has Big Ambitions

Company To Watch: Tata Motors/india Mumbai-based Tata Motors, which is trying to buy Ford Motor’s premier Jaguar and Land Rover brands, unveiled the world’s cheapest car, the $2,500 Nano, at the Auto Expo in New Delhi in January. Dubbed the ...

Award Winners

Features : Greasing The Wheels Of World Trade

ANNUAL SURVEY/ BEST TRADE FINANCE BANKS Trade finance banks are providing ever-more diverse and innovative services as world trade continues to expand. On January 1, 2008, the multilateral trading system reached its 60th anniversary. Any celebrating ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Milestones : Chinas Year Of Rat Fraught With Risk

China Filling up: China’s consumers may face shortages soon. While the Chinese horoscope attributes such auspicious qualities as intelligence, charisma and compassion to those born in the Year of the Rat, which begins on February 7, economists are ...

News

Newsmakers : New Bank Governor Faces Tough Sledding

Canada Carney: Taking control at a difficult time. Mark Carney took the reins as governor of the Bank of Canada from David Dodge on February 1, at a time when the central bank has ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance : Greenback’s Decline Prompts Talk Of Central Bank Reserve Diversification And Ending Pegs To Dollar

CORPORATE FINANCING FOCUS The shifting sands in the foreign exchange market in 2007 undermined the dollar to the extent that China openly weighed what its state media refer to as the “nuclear option” of dropping its vast holdings ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance : High-yield Spreads May Widen Further

CORPORATE DEBT With banks still reluctant to lend, corporations that have delayed borrowing during the recent turmoil in the credit markets may have little choice but to issue debt in the coming months, putting further pressure on ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance : Mining Industry Offers Rich Vein For Mergers

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS More mergers in the mining industry are likely in 2008, analysts say, including potentially some of the biggest M&A; deals ever. Australia-based mining company BHP Billiton in November announced plans to launch an unsolicited tender offer to ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance :Investors Climb Aboard China Railway Ipo

GLOBAL EQUITY/DRS When state-owned China Railway, the world’s third-biggest construction company, offered $3 billion worth of shares for sale in its initial public offering in Shanghai last month, it attracted more than $450 billion in subscriptions. Clearly, ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : Chinas Biggest Drugstore Lists Adrs

NEWS China Nepstar Chain Drugstore, already the largest drugstore in China based on the number of directly operated outlets, plans to vastly increase its size with the proceeds of its initial public offering of American depositary receipts ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : Frontier Market Indexes Planned

DR NEWS New York-based MSCI Barra, which is majority-owned by Morgan Stanley, plans to introduce a family of benchmark indexes next month covering 19 “frontier market” countries. Institutional investors want to look beyond existing developed and emerging ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : Panama And Its Airline Enjoy Boom

COMPANY TO WATCH: COPA HOLDINGS/PANAMA Panama, a natural transportation hub with its famous canal, has become an air-transport center for the Americas, thanks to its national flag carrier, Copa Airlines. The fast-growing airline with a young fleet ...