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Emerging & Frontier Markets

Milestones : Ethanol Industry Faces Prospect Of Demand Slump

Brazil       Not so sweet: Predicted demand for Brazil's ethanol is falling. Just a year after Petrobras, Brazil’s state-controlled oil company, predicted Brazil would triple its annual ethanol output to around 70 billion liters by 2020, the market ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance : Surge Of Bank Mergers Dominates Deal Activity

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS     Government-encouraged bank mergers and bailouts are keeping global M&A; activity alive amid the financial crisis, which has severely restricted financing for corporate buyouts. San Francisco-based Wells Fargo’s $15.1 billion acquisition of Wachovia, which derailed a ...

Economics, Policy & Regulation

Cover Story : Capitalizing on the Crisis

  CAPITALIZING ON THE CRISIS RETURN OF THE IMF As crippled nations beat a path to its door, the IMF is enjoying a dramatic return from near-irrelevance. How it wields its revived power and influence will determine its long-term future. ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : Banks Continue Consolidation

BRAZIL     Brazil’s banks continued their consolidation trend, with the most recent deal in November creating Latin America’s largest financial group. Itaú, Brazil’s second-largest non-state-owned bank, announced its acquisition of Unibanco, the country’s third-largest, in a stock transaction valued ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : IMF And Fed Fail To Stem Asset Flight

NEWS     The International Monetary Fund’s new short-term lending program and Federal Reserve swap lines could help ease currency and interest rate pressures in eligible emerging market countries but may be no panacea for the exodus of private funds ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Features : Brazil Points The Way

LATIN AMERICA President Lula’s bold program of social and economic reform has become a model for economies in Latin America and beyond.   Under Lula, Brasilia has focused on growing the economy in a way that benefits people at all ...

Economics, Policy & Regulation

Features : Breaking Up Or Breaking Down?

THE DECOUPLING DEBATE Proponents of the theory that emerging markets are decoupling from the West’s economies have had a tough year. Their vision may yet be coming true, though.   If the United States sneezes, the rest of the world ...

Economics, Policy & Regulation

Features : Victims and saviors

ANNUAL REPORT Emerging markets didn’t start this fire, but they may be the best hope for putting it out.   The global financial crisis was clearly stamped “Made in USA,” but the outlook for growth in emerging economies is being ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance : Companies Cancel Ipos As Markets Tumble

GLOBAL EQUITY/DRS           There were only five initial public offerings in the US market in the third quarter, with no IPO activity after early August. In Europe, withdrawn IPOs were at the highest level in the ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance: Dollar Shoots Higher Amid Financial Crisis

FOREIGN EXCHANGE       As the financial crisis shook Europe’s banks last month, the European Central Bank joined in a coordinated half-point rate cut with the Federal Reserve, the Bank of England and other central banks, excluding the Bank ...

Economics, Policy & Regulation

Cover Story: Bitter medicine

BITTER MEDICINE GLOBAL REGULATION     The case for global regulation of the banking and finance industry has become much stronger as a result of the recent crisis. The prospect of creating a workable system, though, is as remote as ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

EM Investor: Colombian Oil Company Lists On New York Stock Exchange

DR NEWS     Ecopetrol, Colombia’s state-controlled oil company, which sold a 10.1% stake to the public last year, has become only the second company based in Colombia to list American depositary receipts on the New York Stock Exchange. Bancolombia ...
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