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Cement Maker Bags Contracts in LatAm

Emerging Markets Investor: Company To Watch By Gordon Platt Cementos Argos, the leader in the Colombian cement industry, with a 51% market share, is benefiting from growing construction activity in its home market and a healthy backlog of ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Free-Float Rules Could Boost Indian DRs

Emerging Markets Investor: DR News By Gordon Platt India’s finance ministry issued neles in June requiring listed companies to have a public float of at least 25% of their shares. The new rules could prompt a rush of ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Local Government Debt Shadows China

Emerging Markets Investor: News By Gordon Platt Julian Thompson, portfolio manager at Threadneedle Emerging Markets Equity Fund, says he expects China’s economic growth to slow and sees much more opportunity in other parts of the world. Much of ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

TCM: Braced For Turbulence

FX EXPOSURE MANAGEMENT Currency volatility is increasing, and companies are finding that more than ever they need to have an effective FX hedging strategy in place. By Anita Hawser Frank Pirozzi is the assistant treasurer at Red ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Trading Up

ANALYSIS — ASIA'S EXPORTERS By Thomas Clouse Asia’s exporters are all benefiting as China’s manufacturers begin to move up the value chain. The Asian economic miracle is hardly a new story, but every once in a while, ...

Country Report

Country Report: Egypt

GETTING SMART By Gordon Platt Egypt is turning to information technology to create a knowledge-based economy. Near the pyramids at Giza, on the outskirts of Cairo, Egypt's first technology park is changing the desert landscape. A total ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Economic Focus: Brazil

PLAY ON By Antonio Guerrero Brazil is betting that its huge investment in infrastructure projects for the 2014 Soccer World Cup and the 2016 Olympics will provide long-term benefits to the country. Just six weeks after Rio ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets: China

ROUNDUP By Thomas Clouse Power hungry: China’s energy use climbs China overtook the United States to become the world’s largest energy consumer, according to figures released in July by the International Energy Agency. China used energy equivalent to ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Former Foes Tighten Ties

VIETNAM By Thomas Clouse Clinton: Comments on marine conflicts upset China Vietnam and the United States participated in joint military exercises last month for the first time since the war between the two countries ended 35 years ago. The ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Kenya To Become Green Power Pioneer

KENYA By Dan Keeler Kenya’s Olkaria II geothermal plant generates 70MW Kenya’s government is looking for a strategic investor to buy 19% of the country’s principal electricity supplier, the Kenya Electricity Generating Company (KenGen). Eddy Njoroge, KenGen’s managing ...

Award Winners

World’s SAFEST BANKS IN ASIA 2010

Global Finance names the World’s Safest Banks 2010 in Asia NEW YORK, August 30, 2010 — Global Finance magazine (www.gfmag.com)...

Award Winners

World’s SAFEST BANKS IN CENTRAL & EASTERN EUROPE 2010

Global Finance names the World’s Safest Banks 2010 in Central & Eastern Europe NEW YORK, August 30, 2010 — Global...