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Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance : Cross-border Mergers Set Record, As Global Consolidation Continues In Many Industries

Mergers & Acquisitions Cross-border mergers and acquisitions accounted for a record 47% of worldwide M&A; transactions in 2007, as global consolidation continued to drive merger activity in the materials, financials, and energy and power sectors, according to Thomson ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance : Us Economic Slowdown, Rate Cuts To Drub Dollar

Foreign Exchange With the US economy nearing a recession, if it hasn’t already entered one, the Federal Reserve will continue cutting interest rates in the months ahead, likely leading to further losses in the already beat-up dollar, analysts say. The ...

Banking

Cover Story: Banking Bonzana

China International and domestic banks are spreading the net ever wider in their efforts to bring financial services to China’s increasingly wealthy population. China has outdone itself. The country’s economy grew by 11.5% in the first three ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Features : Down But Not Out

MARKET FORCES / EQUITY DERIVATIVES Corporations might be wary of employing complex financial instruments in the wake of the credit crunch, but a closer look at the anatomy of the meltdown suggests equity derivatives still present some interesting opportunities. ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Features : Miners Going Major

ANALYSIS - MINING The world’s biggest mining companies look set to continue growing sharply as competition for resources continues to intensify. In the closing months of 2007, as investors fled equities and piled into commodities like gold ...

Country Report

Features : Power Play

COUNTRY REPORT / RUSSIA Having hand picked his successor as Russian president, Vladimir Putin has assured the country there will be a smooth transition of power. How much power he will retain remains in question. Oil has filled Russia's ...

Country Report

Features: Storm Clouds And Silver Linings

<p>CANADA When Canada’s dollar reached parity with the US dollar, it was cause for national celebration. For the country’s corporations, still reeling from the credit crunch, the muscular currency is a very mixed blessing. In recent ...</p>

News

Newsmakers : Businesses Prove The Benefit Of Going Green

United States Gardner: More companies are signing up to going green. Global investors, institutions and corporates are increasingly looking to improve their sustainability profile, according to a report by the Worldwatch Institute released in January. The report, State ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

The United States

Corporate Finance : Cross-border Mergers Set Record, As Global Consolidation Continues In Many Industries

Corporate Finance : Us Economic Slowdown, Rate Cuts To Drub Dollar

Cover Story: Banking Bonzana

Features : Down But Not Out

Features : Miners Going Major

Features : Power Play

Features: Storm Clouds And Silver Linings

Newsmakers : Businesses Prove The Benefit Of Going Green

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

Corporate Finance : High-yield Spreads May Widen Further

Cover Story: Asia’s big year

Editor’s letter : Mature, but not grown up