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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 ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance : Greenback’s Decline Prompts Talk Of Central Bank Reserve Diversification And Ending Pegs To Dollar

CORPORATE FINANCING FOCUS The shifting sands in the foreign exchange market in 2007 undermined the dollar to the extent that China openly weighed what its state media refer to as the “nuclear option” of dropping its vast holdings ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Cover Story: Asia’s big year

Asia’s most dynamic economies are amassing huge cash fortunes that they can then wield to increase their power around the world. Will 2008 be the year when we t ruly see the balance of global power shift to the ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance : Petrochina Ipo Spurs Shanghai Stock Surge

GLOBAL EQUITY/DRS PetroChina, China’s largest oil and gas producer, added fuel to the fire of Shanghai’s overheated stock market last month with its initial public offering on the mainland. The company’s A-shares surged 163% in their $8.9 billion ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance : Slowing Us Economy, Rate Cuts Slash Dollar

FOREIGN EXCHANGE Interest rate differentials are squeezing the last bit of life out of the dollar amid ongoing concerns about the health of the US financial system, analysts say. The dollar fell to a record low against the ...

Banking

Cover Story : 20 Years Of Turmoil And Progress

ANNIVERSARY TIMELINE OCTOBER 19, 1987: STOCK MARKET CRASH The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) falls 508 points, or 22.6%, in the steepest decline since 1929. Portfolio insurance and computerized trading takes some of the blame for what ranks ...

Banking

Cover Story : A Calming Influence

CENTRAL BANKERS PERSPECTIVES Central bankers deserve much of the credit for the financial world’s ability to ride out tumultuous market conditions. Global Finance asked the central bankers who were awarded “A” grades in our recent central banker report ...

Banking

Cover Story : Brave New World

A NEW DAWN “O wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world That has such people in’t!” —William Shakespeare’s The Tempest, Act V, Scene I. From the ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Features : Star Of The South

COUNTRY REPORT / BRAZIL Brazil’s commitment to developing biofuels is paying off handsomely. Investment is flooding in to other areas of the economy, too. José Sergio Gabrielli, CEO of Petrobras For the administration of Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Japan

Corporate Finance : Drs Moving From Strength To Strength

Corporate Finance : Greenback’s Decline Prompts Talk Of Central Bank Reserve Diversification And Ending Pegs To Dollar

Cover Story: Asia’s big year

Corporate Finance : Petrochina Ipo Spurs Shanghai Stock Surge

Corporate Finance : Slowing Us Economy, Rate Cuts Slash Dollar

Cover Story : 20 Years Of Turmoil And Progress

Cover Story : A Calming Influence

Cover Story : Brave New World

Features : Star Of The South

Corporate Finance : China Unleashes Ipos To Soak Up Liquidity

Features : Worlds Best Derivatives Providers 2007

Corporate Finance : As Global Markets Stabilize, Analysts Say Dollar Could Lose Appeal As Safe-haven Currency