Economics, Policy & Regulation
PANAMA: VARELA BLESSED BY SURPRISING ELECTION RESULT
NEWSMAKERS: PANAMA<br />
Conservative Varela surprises with progressive social agenda.<br />
Author: Tiziana Barghini
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Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
RATING THROUGH THE CYCLE
We sat down with Fergus McCormick, head of sovereign ratings at DBRS, to discuss the rating agency’s outlook for global markets, sovereign ratings and how the firm differs from its competitors.<br />
Economics, Policy & Regulation
Do You Still Remember the Financial Crisis?
Do you remember the 2007-2008 financial crisis? Its daunting impact on the world economy is finally fading away and the US Federal Reserve Board is slowly moving to a less expansionary monetary policy, but the debate on its causes and, more important, on what is needed to prevent similar episodes from happening again is still very much alive.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
SHARE BUYBACKS THE DARLING OF WALL STREET
Despite a pause in February, when the number of share purchase authorizations declined by 32% over the same period a year ago, share buybacks are still very popular on Wall Street.
Features
Dangerous Liaisons: How Sovereign Debt Weighs on Eurozone Banks
In the summer of 2012, when the eurozone crisis was breaking bad and Spanish banks were heavily hit by the burst of a real estate bubble, Europe set up a mega-loan to the Spanish government to help out its most-in-need financial institutions.
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Middle East Capital Markets: GCC Triumph
MIDDLE EAST 2014 SUPPLEMENT By Tiziana Barghini Stock markets in GCC countries, in particular Dubai and Abu Dhabi, have capitalized...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Brazil, India, South Africa, Most Affected By Fed Tapering
February 3, 2014 As the US Federal Reserve Board slowly moves away from the expansionary monetary policy it has pursued...
Economics, Policy & Regulation
Bernanke: In Praise of Bernanke
Bernanke: The Visible Hand For Ben Bernanke, a rocky eight-year tenure as chairman of the Federal Reserve Board is ending...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
An EU In Africa?
MILESTONES By Tiziana Barghini Twenty-two years after the Maastricht Treaty—which paved the way for Europe’s economic and monetary union—was signed, five Eastern African countries have inked a similar pact for an area that is much smaller than the ...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Global Salon: Francisco Ferreira
SIDESTEPPING THE BOOM AND BUST By Tiziana Barghini Global Finance sat down with Francisco Ferreira, chief economist, Africa, at the World Bank, to discuss the continent’s economic outlook. The pace of growth in Africa hovered around an impressive ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Mexico Greases the Skids for Foreign Oil Companies
For Pemex, a crude awakening A steady, year-long stream of institutional and economic reforms in Mexico is about to end...
Economics, Policy & Regulation
How Detroit Rattled Puerto Rico
Saddled with debt of $70 billion, Puerto Rico’s government is doing its best to reassure US investors that it will honor its financial commitments and that its beleaguered finances will be remedied.