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Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : Quest For Investment Grade Gathers Pace

BRAZIL Some 50% of respondents to a Merrill Lynch emerging market investor survey in August said they were bullish on Brazil. Reaching a similar conclusion, rival Morgan Stanley predicts Brazilian markets will see further upside, despite recent US market turbulence, ...

Country Report

Features : Aiming To Please

COUNTRY REPORT / PHILIPPINES Schleimer: The Clean Air Act could be used to regulate greenhouse gases With the May general election safely behind it, the Philippine government hopes to use the next three years of relative political quietude ...

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Features : Central Banker Report Cards 2007

ANNUAL SURVEY / CENTRAL BANKER REPORT CARDS Individually, many of the world’s leading central bankers seemed to be in disarray after the subprime debacle began to unfold in mid-2007. As a group, though, they acted with remarkably unity. The central ...

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Features : Global Finance Ranks The Worlds 50 Biggest Banks, As Measured By Total Assets

ANNUAL SURVEY/ WORLD’S BIGGEST BANKS It is just two years since we last listed the world’s biggest banks, and in that time the assets of the top 10 have jumped from what was then an eye-popping $12 trillion to ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Features : In For The Long Haul

ANALYSIS / INFRASTRUCTURE FUNDING Many Asian countries desperately need to upgrade their infrastructure while cash-rich private equity funds are scouring the region for long-term investments. Is this a match made in heaven? Nag: We can only meet a small ...

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Features : Worlds Best Banks

ANNUAL SURVEY / WORLD’S BEST BANKS At a time when the world economic outlook is more uncertain than it has been in years, the banking industry finds itself at the vortex of a financial market storm that originated in subprime ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance : Dollar Hits The Skids As Us Rate Cut Looms

Foreign exchange / corporate financing news The dollar fell to a 15-year low against a basket of currencies in early August as the level of the federal funds futures contract forecast a cut in US interest rates before ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance : High-yield Market Closes For Repricing

Corporate debt / corporate financing news The high-yield bond market in the United States all but shut down for new issues in July, as subprime mortgage losses led to a repricing of corporate credit risk and an end ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : Chinese company lists in tokyo

Company to watch: china boqi environmental solutions technology / china Based in Beijing, one of the world’s most polluted cities, China Boqi Environmental Solutions Technology has plenty of work to do. “Environmental protection is a big task as ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : Investors shift into safety first mode

News Institutional investors are showing a marked preference for developed market equities over emerging market shares as they rein in risk in their portfolios in response to recent market volatility, according to a research report by State Street ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : Records Fall As Indian Business Thrives

India On track: Delhis new subway trains. The metro railway authority in New Delhi placed a record order for 340 subway coaches with Bombardier Transportation, Montreal-based Bombardier’s Indian subsidiary. Worth $590 million, the order is the largest ever ...

Banking

Milestones : Shariah Japan 100 Index Forms Basis Of Islamic ETF

JAPAN Toyota: Top holding in new ETF. Tokyo-based Daiwa Asset Management will create an exchange-traded fund based on the newly formed FTSE Shariah Japan 100 index. The ETF, which will be listed on the Singapore Exchange in ...