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Newsmakers: Mystery Buyer Bets Big On Treasury Bonds

United States By Gordon Platt Whodunnit? Mystery buyer mops up US treasuries The last thing the global financial markets need right now is a failed US treasury bond auction. Thankfully, recent auctions have gone smoothly, with the swelling ...

Features

Asia, America, and the Transformation of Geopolitics

Amazon Editorial reviews Product Description American security and prosperity now depend on Asia. William H. Overholt offers an iconoclastic analysis...

Features

China’s Rise: Challenges and Opportunities

Amazon Editorial reviews Product Description The global economic crisis has made clear China’s importance and expanding role on the world...

Features

The New Asian Hemisphere: The Irresistible Shift of Global Power to the East

Amazon Editorial reviews Product Description For two centuries Asians have been bystanders in world history, reacting defenselessly to the surges...

Economics, Policy & Regulation

Looking ahead: shifting sands

Shifting Sands Global Finance takes a long, hard look at the prospects for the coming decade. By Dan Keeler The first decade of the 21st century began with the spectacular and painful collapse of the dot-com bubble ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

The Dollars decline

The Dollar’s Decline A weak dollar may be beneficial to the US in the short term, but it is undermining the dollar’s long-term status as the de facto global currency. By Laurence Neville One of the rocks ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

The new world powers

THE NEW WORLD POWERS The coming decade will witness a fundamental rebalancing of economic power, setting the stage for this to become the Asian Century. By Harold L. Sirkin It is clear to almost everyone that ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance: Mergers & Acquisitions

Taiwan Emerges As Tech M&A; Hot Spot By Gordon Platt In the biggest merger ever in Taiwan, liquid crystal display (LCD) monitor maker Innolux Display agreed in November to acquire Chi Mei Optoelectronics, which makes LCD panels for ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Cover Story: Building Boom

Building Boom A much needed explosion in infrastructure spending is already under way in both developed and emerging markets. By Gordon Platt The world’s infrastructure will change dramatically in the decade ahead as a result of ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets: Company to Watch: Anglo Platinum/South Africa

Auto Sales Revival Puts New Shine On Platinum By GP South Africa-based Anglo Platinum, the world’s largest primary producer of platinum, retrenched in 2009 after demand for the metal used in catalytic converters suffered from decreasing consumption by ...

Award Winners

Features: Awards: World’s Best Foreign Exchange Providers

THE NEED FOR SPEED The foreign exchange market is growing—and operating—at lightning speed. Global Finance selects the leaders of the world's biggest financial market. By Gordon Platt The best banks in the foreign exchange market performed well ...

Banking

Newsmakers: Copenhagen Conference Reveals Deep Rifts Over Climate Change

Europe/Global By Anita Hawser Trouble ahead: Delegates failed to secure a binding treaty in Copenhagen In mid-December political leaders, environmental scientists, NGOs and lobbyists converged on Copenhagen to try to hammer out a global agreement on climate change. ...