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Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance : Microsoft’s bid for yahoo gets M&A back on track

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS Apart from the ongoing consolidation in the financial services industry, January was an extremely slow month for mergers and acquisitions. That all changed quickly on February 1, however, with Microsoft’s $44.6 billion bid for ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Cover Story : Continental Shift

LATIN AMERICA REGIONAL REPORT Latin American governments’ attempts to gain more control over their countries’ economic fortunes are having far-reaching effects on international corporations doing business in the region. Left in charge: Brazilian president Lula da Silva ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : China Solar Energy ADR Fails To Shine In Debut

DR NEWS ReneSola, a China-based manufacturer of solar wafers, listed 10 million American depositary shares on the New York Stock Exchange on January 29. Although the issue was priced at a discount of 9.7% to the underlying shares, which trade ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : Roaring Economy Boosts State-Owned Companies’ Profits

CHINA Riding high: China's economic growth continues to break records. China’s economy grew 11.4% in 2007, its fastest rate in 13 years. Fourth-quarter GDP growth fell to 11.2% year-on-year, however, as government tightening measures and weakening global demand ...

Banking

Features : Opportunity Play

SOVEREIGN WEALTH FUNDS Sovereign wealth funds snap up bargains in one of the biggest financial industry land grabs in history. Bader Al Sa'ad, head of Kuwait's SWF, helped arrange a huge cash infusion for Citi. To say Citi and ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Features: Riding A Growth Wave

SECTOR REPORT / SHIPPING FINANCE Growth in world trade spurs demand for financing of ships and terminals. Sharp growth in the size of cargo ships has prompted expansion of the Panama canal. Sharp growth in the size of ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance : Cross-border Mergers Set Record, As Global Consolidation Continues In Many Industries

Mergers & Acquisitions Cross-border mergers and acquisitions accounted for a record 47% of worldwide M&A; transactions in 2007, as global consolidation continued to drive merger activity in the materials, financials, and energy and power sectors, according to Thomson ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance : Drs Moving From Strength To Strength

Global Equity/drs Records galore toppled in the depositary receipt market in 2007, and DR liquidity, prices and capital raising likely will continue to be strong in 2008, as growth continues in the big emerging market economies of Brazil, Russia, India ...

Banking

Cover Story: Banking Bonzana

China International and domestic banks are spreading the net ever wider in their efforts to bring financial services to China’s increasingly wealthy population. China has outdone itself. The country’s economy grew by 11.5% in the first three ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : China’s Baidu.Com Tops Dr Trading Activity In 2007

Dr News Beijing-based Baidu.com, China’s leading Internet search provider, was the most actively traded depositary receipt in the world last year, according to The Bank of New York Mellon’s annual year-end report on the DR industry. In ...

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 : Securities Markets Become More Open

China Morgan Stanley: Subprime losses have been plugged by China Investment Corp. China will allow foreign brokerage firms to play stronger roles in the country’s securities markets, according to new guidelines that took effect ...