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Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Editor’s Letter: The New Geography

There is a new definition of the emerging markets and their characteristics that confutes many old and accepted axioms; for example, the idea that the cost of labor is cheaper in developing countries, or that governance is more advanced and regulations are more enforced in developed countries.

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Editor’s Letter: All Eyes On The Big Players

DEAR READER NOVEMBER 2013 | VOL. 27 NO. 10 A few months ago nobody would have expected the United States...

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Editor’s Letter: New Agenda For BRICs?

DEAR READER OCTOBER 2013 | Vol. 27 No. 9 The annual meetings of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund in Washington coincide this year with an important change in the global economic climate. Early, faint signs ...

Banking

Editor’s Letter: Tapering Expectations

The quantitative easing launched in recent years by the central banks of the United States, the eurozone and Japan is entering a new phase...

Banking

Editor’s Letter: Quantitative Might

We live in a world of quantitative easing and short-term interest rates close to zero; a world where central banks have recently taken on a new role, becoming the most active institutional investors in the world...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Editor’s Letter: The Effects Of Japanomics

<p>The extraordinary monetary moves of Haruhiko Kuroda, the new governor of the Bank of Japan, have dominated economic commentaries for the past few weeks...</p>

Banking

Editor’s Letter: Sign Of The Times

Banks are once again at the center of the debate on the state of global economies...

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Editor’s Letter: Nascent Optimism

Optimism reaches the real economy. This is the headline of a recent report from the Institute of International Finance...

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Editor’s Letter: Fewer Clouds, Fiercer Headwinds

There is little enthusiasm these days when it comes to economic forecasting...

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Editor’s Letter: Low-Altitude Flight

Over the last few weeks of 2012, when brokerage houses and investment banks were presenting their annual forecasts for the new year, there were timid signs of optimism...

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Editor’s Letter: As The Mists Burn Off

Now that the US has voted to grant a second term to its president, Barack Obama, and the Chinese ruling party has selected Xi Jinping as its new leader and future president, one big layer of uncertainty has faded from the international scene...

Banking

Editor’s Letter: Forecasts May Be Down,But Hope Is Rising

The annual meetings of the IMF and World Bank in Tokyo in October confirmed that the economic slowdown of Europe, and to a lesser extent of Japan and the US, has negatively affected emerging markets growth...