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Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : Tensions Rise With The United States

CHINA Hong Kong: Focus of tension with the US. China stoked military tension with the United States by denying entry to a number of US naval vessels looking to dock in Hong Kong. In the most publicized ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Features : Adapting To Survive

SECTOR REPORT / PRIVATE EQUITY Cash-heavy buyout firms are still looking for deals, but the rising cost of borrowing may result in their emulating their smaller private equity cousins. Just a few months ago there were ...

Country Report

Features : Country Report: Iceland

EXPANDING HORIZONS ICELAND Iceland is going all out to expand its economy—and the global reach of its banks and corporations. With a wealthy consumer base that has the sixth-highest per capita GDP in the OECD, 0.8% unemployment, negligible ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance : Record Year For M&a Crawling To Finish

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS The year 2007 already has set an all-time record for the value of worldwide mergers and acquisitions, thanks to the growing influence of private equity funds and attractive financing opportunities earlier this year. However, deteriorating ...

Banking

Cover Story : Universal Currency Could Hold Key To Stability And Growth

SINGLE GLOBAL CURRENCY The success of the euro has fueled interest in a plan for global monetary union that could end currency crises and boost world trade. For decades there has been a groundswell ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : Chinese Developer Delays Bond Sale

COMPANY TO WATCH: COUNTRY GARDEN HOLDINGS/CHINA Shares of Country Garden Holdings, a leading China-based real estate group, rose 37% in their debut in April on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. More recently, the company postponed a ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : India’s Contribution To Multinational Corporations’ Global Earnings Goes Mainstream

INDIA I ndia hopes to boost hydropower capacity Third-quarter earnings releases by UK telecom giant Vodafone Group and by Switzerland-based Holcim, the world’s second-largest cement maker, reflected growing contributions from India’s increasingly assertive domestic market on the ...

Banking

Features : Changing The Game

SOVEREIGN WEALTH FUNDS With sovereign wealth funds rapidly becoming one of the most powerful forces in global finance, one key question has emerged: Should they be feared or revered? With the subprime-induced credit crunch causing stocks of financial giants such ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Features : Star Of The South

COUNTRY REPORT / BRAZIL Brazil’s commitment to developing biofuels is paying off handsomely. Investment is flooding in to other areas of the economy, too. José Sergio Gabrielli, CEO of Petrobras For the administration of Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula ...

News

Newsmakers : Global Finance Helps Bring Medical Aid To Indian Orphans

INDIA Children attending lessons at the Manjushree Orphanage On November 18, a team of doctors and support workers from Amrit Davaa, Global Finance’s partner charity, embarked on their mission to deliver sustainable medical care and food aid ...

News

Newsmakers : Miliband Urges EU To Open Door To More New Members

UNITED KINGDOM Miliband: The European Union should ontinue to expand to the east The United Kingdom’s foreign secretary, David Miliband, says that the European Union should gradually expand further into Eastern Europe, including Russia, as well as into ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance : China Unleashes Ipos To Soak Up Liquidity

GLOBAL EQUITY/DRS China has approved a series of major IPOs in recent weeks in an attempt to cool its soaring stock markets by flooding them with a growing supply of new issues. The country’s main Shanghai index has ...