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Steady Interest Rates Help Brazil’s New Finance Minister

<strong>Brazil: </strong>The Banco Central do Brasil gave new Finance minister Nelson Barbosa a bit of help on January 20, when it decided to hold the short-term interest rate, the Selic, to 14.25%.

Economics, Policy & Regulation

Taiwan’s New President To Focus On Growth, Not China

Tsai Ing-wen, leader of what was—until a couple of weeks ago—Taiwan’s opposition party, will become the island’s first female president this spring following a January 16 election in which she and her Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) won control of both the presidency and the legislature from the incumbent Kuomintang (KMT) party.

Award Winners

Reshaping The FX Landscape

The $5 trillion-a-day foreign exchange market is changing rapidly, as electronic execution platforms control the bulk of trading and bank dealers streamline operations in response to growing pressure from regulators to cut trading risks and boost capital.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

BTG Looks To Restore Credibility By Selling Off Assets

Corporate Governance | Management Selling the assets could improve BTG’s net worth by 20 billion reais ($5 billion).

Economics, Policy & Regulation

Bulgaria Attractive Despite Corruption

Bulgaria’s multilingual workforce attracts foreign investors, but corruption is a problem.

Economics, Policy & Regulation

Burkina Faso’s New President Has An Edge

Burkina Faso There’s been big change in the small country of Burkina Faso. On November 29, the West African nation of 17 million held its first free elections in almost three decades.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Editor’s Letter: Two Baskets, One Currency

Our cover story this month focuses on a little-known fact: Global trade growth has slowed in recent years, and intraregional trade, especially in Asia, is becoming more prominent.

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Eyes On New Legislature For Venezuela

The opposition party in Venezuela won the majority of seats in the National Assembly (Venezuela’s parliament) in national elections early in December.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Global Companies React To Security Threats

Security Risks | Management Recent terrorist events around the world, from California to Paris, have forced multinational companies to think more seriously about security and nonmarket risks, and the impact of threats on their operations and business continuity.

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Economics, Policy & Regulation

Steady Interest Rates Help Brazil’s New Finance Minister

Taiwan’s New President To Focus On Growth, Not China

Reshaping The FX Landscape

BTG Looks To Restore Credibility By Selling Off Assets

Bulgaria Attractive Despite Corruption

Burkina Faso’s New President Has An Edge

Editor’s Letter: Two Baskets, One Currency

Eyes On New Legislature For Venezuela

Global Companies React To Security Threats

Has Globalization Gone Into Reverse?

Investors Eye Irans Economic Comeback

Markets Cheer Fed Rate Liftoff