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Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : Em Debt Trading Sets Record

News The value of trading in emerging markets fixed-income instruments totaled $1.7 trillion in the first quarter of 2007, an increase of 4% from the same period a year earlier, according to EMTA, formerly the Emerging Markets Traders ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : Meat Processors Bulk Up With Foreign Acquisitions

Brazil Beefing up: Brazilian meat producer JBS is set to buy the US's Swift Following a spate of local IPOs by Brazil's main meat processing companies, sector players are now engaged in an acquisitions spree to expand their ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance : Drug Mergers Ease M&a Drought

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS The need for bigger drug-development pipelines and more diversified businesses with greater geographic reach is fueling a...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : Making The Grade

BRAZIL Brazil's agricultural output is helping boost its economy Brazil moved closer to a coveted investment-grade rating in May as both Standard & Poor’s and Fitch upgraded the sovereign to BB+ from BB. The rating puts it just ...

Banking

Features : On A Roll

20TH ANNIVERSARY SPOTLIGHT / INVESTMENT BANKING Investment bankers are riding a wave of profits in an expanding universe for their services. Ivanov: There is no limit to growth Year after year the world’s investment banks have been turning ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Newsmakers : Multilateral Malaise

LATIN AMERICA Hugo Chávez: Wants to see the World Bank out of Latin America While most media attention on the World Bank recently has focused on a political scandal that could spark the downfall of bank president Paul ...

Corporate Finance : Brazilian Deluge Saturates The Market

GLOBAL EQUITY/DRS Brazilian cleaning company Atmosfera Gestão e Higienização de Têxteis suspended plans for an initial public offering last month...

News

Cover Story : A Bumpy Ride

EM SPOTLIGHT – LATIN AMERICA Argentina’s president Nestor Kirchner faced off against some of the worlds most powerful investors Latin...

News

Editor’s Letter : Transfer Of Power

In this issue we look back over the past 20 years in the worlds emerging markets...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : Sharp Growth In M&A Activity

BRAZIL Gol: Varig offer takes off at last Brazils IBGE national statistics institute reformulated its methodology for calculating the nations...

News

Newsmakers : Chávez Banks On Regional Support

LATIN AMERICA Chvez: Extending credit to other Latin American nations Venezuelan president Hugo Chvezs dream of creating a South American...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance : Carry Trades Unwind With A Vengeance

FOREIGN EXCHANGE The apparent cause of the turmoil in global equity markets and emerging market currencies that began in late...