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Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Cover Story: African stepping up

AFRICAN INFRASTRUCTURE FINANCE Sub-Saharan Africa’s economic development is still constrained by a historic dearth of infrastructure investment. Private sector investors might be able to provide the hitherto missing link.       Controversial development: Dams such as the Kariba on ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : Emerging Markets Begin To Feel Pain

NEWS The world’s emerging equity markets had a gloomy summer, falling 19.4% in the three months through August, compared with a decline of 11.55% in developed equity markets in the same period, according to an analysis by Standard & Poor’s. ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Features : Growing pains

SPOTLIGHT / EMERGING MARKETS Emerging markets have been some of the best performers of recent years. Is their continued growth now under threat?   Since the credit crunch began more than a year ago, it has inflicted most pain on ...

Economics, Policy & Regulation

Milestones : Global Accounting Standard Moves Closer

UNITED STATES       Accounting by numbers: Proponents of global standards say they reduce costs.       More than 100 of the largest US public companies could be using international accounting standards by the end of next year ...

News

Milestones : Western Ally In Caspian Wins Kudos

  AZERBAIJAN       Azerbaijan's pro-business president, Ilham Aliyev. The regulatory reform movement that has been thriving in Central and Eastern Europe in recent years is spreading eastward into Central Asia, with Azerbaijan taking the title of the world’s ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance : Dow Breaks The Mold For Deal Financing

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS     Midland, Michigan-based Dow Chemical forged an unusual alliance of bankers and investors to finance its $18.6 billion acquisition of specialty-chemicals maker Rohm and Haas. Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway and the Kuwait Investment Authority, a sovereign ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance : Global Slowdown Could Benefit Dollar

FOREIGN EXCHANGE The dollar made strong and broad gains last month as commodity prices declined and economic data from Europe and Japan came in weaker than expected. Early signs of a global slowdown in real economic activity and falling oil ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Cover Story : Sustainable Progress

<p>LESSONS FROM EUROPE   Corporate comprehension of the benefits of going green is far more advanced in Europe than in the US. But America’s businesses could easily catch up.   Stark differences: Europe and the US have taken very different ...</p>

Banking

Emerging Markets : Banks Seek Growth After Profits Slide

BRAZIL     Digging in: Brazilian miner Vale is investing heavily. After several years of steady profit growth, Brazil’s banking sector reported a slowdown in second-quarter 2008. Bradesco, Brazil’s largest non-state bank by assets, posted a 13% drop in second-quarter ...
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