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Cover Story : Is China The New Japan?

As fears grow that Chinas economy may be dangerously overheated, analysts are increasingly drawing parallels with Japans experience over the...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

ASIA The HSBC Group continues to forge ahead in Asias emerging markets. Primarily through its Hong Kong based subsidiary, Hong...

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GLOBAL The American Bankers Association and the European Banking Federation have joined with their counterparts in Canada and Australia to...

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SRI LANKA Mahinda Rajapakse Sri Lankas newly appointed finance minister Sarath Amunugama and Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapakse have already gone...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

THE AMERICAS Comcast, the biggest cable-TV operator in the US, made an unsolicited offer to buy Walt Disney, the American...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

THE AMERICAS The US dollar rebounded sharply in early March, recording its biggest jump in a year against the euro...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Hyundais choice of Slovakia as the site for its first European car plant attests to central Europes allure to foreign...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

For the global custody industry the contrast between this year and last could not be starkeror more heartening. A majority...

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Global Finance selects the best in the world. The big international banks make it look easy, sweeping up dollars and...

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JAPAN Japans massive intervention in the foreign exchange market to keep the yen from rising too sharply against the US...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

THE AMERICAS The use of American depositary receipts to pay for foreign takeovers of US companies likely will increase this...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

THE AMERICAS In a move that came as a surprise to some analysts, the Group of 7 industrial nations warned...