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Newsmakers : Us Trade Supremo Says Export Gains Depend On Congress

UNITED STATES High hopes: Schwab looks to trade agreements to bolster US economy. Following the collapse of the Doha Round of world trade talks this summer, the United States is pinning its hopes on new bilateral trade agreements ...

Banking

GCC Report : Inflation Stalks The Gulf

REGIONAL REPORT: GCC / ECONOMIC UPDATE Currency pegs could come unglued as the region’s economies heat up. Just when it seemed that it couldn’t get any better for the oil-rich countries of the Gulf Cooperation ...

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Newsmakers : “CEO of Korea” Tripped Up On Us Beef Deal

SOUTH KOREA Lee Myung-bak: Beef deal sees president's approval rating plunge. Lee Myung-bak, the former Hyundai executive who was elected president of South Korea by a landslide last December, refers to himself as “CEO of Korea.” His ...

Award Winners

Features : Annual Survey: Stars Of The New Russia

ANNUAL REPORT / STARS OF THE NEW RUSSIA Making the most of their newfound spending power, Russia’s consumers are boosting the fortunes of the country’s banks and corporations. With Russia’s economy fueled by petrodollars, Russian consumers are on ...

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 ...

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 ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Editor’s letter : Mature, but not grown up

In our cover story this month, we investigate the idea that this could be Asias big breakout year...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : Funds Make Hay In Frothy Market

BRAZIL The good times roll: Brazil's economy provides plenty of reasons to celebrate. Brazil-focused hedge funds continued to outperform other emerging market funds, producing an average 5.11% return in October, for a hefty 29.47% year-to-date (YTD) gain. ...

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 : 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 ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

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

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS / FOREIGN EXCHANGE As risk appetite returns to the global markets, the dollar could lose what little support it has gained from its role as a safe-haven currency during the recent period of turbulence, analysts ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance : Deals Still Getting Done, But They Are Smaller

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS The global credit crunch appears to be having a major impact on the size and financing of takeovers, where cash deals for much smaller targets are increasingly the rule. The biggest announced M&A; transaction worldwide in August ...