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Emerging Markets : International banks enjoy Brazilian boom times

Brazil Brazil’s strong capital markets recovery and IPO blitz has prompted international investment banks to put the country back on their radars. Lehman Brothers, which exited Brazil in 2003 amid a near market collapse, has reopened its São ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : Investors shift into safety first mode

News Institutional investors are showing a marked preference for developed market equities over emerging market shares as they rein in risk in their portfolios in response to recent market volatility, according to a research report by State Street ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : Kremlin-connected magnate attracts aluminum deal

Russia Friends in high places: Deripaska (right) and Putin. French oil firm Total unexpectedly signed a deal in mid-July with Kremlin-controlled gas giant Gazprom to help develop the massive Shtokman natural gas field. The Russian government had earlier ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : Records Fall As Indian Business Thrives

India On track: Delhis new subway trains. The metro railway authority in New Delhi placed a record order for 340 subway coaches with Bombardier Transportation, Montreal-based Bombardier’s Indian subsidiary. Worth $590 million, the order is the largest ever ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : Us exchanges maintain lead in dr trading

Dr news American and global depositary receipt trading was easily at an all-time high in the first half of 2007 and was higher than every full-year total since 2006, according to The Bank of New York Mellon. The ...

Country Report

Features : Fast Forward

ISRAEL Past wars and threats of future ones just can’t stop Israel’s economic engine plowing ahead. Past wars and threats of future ones just can't stop Israel's economic engine plowing ahead. During the past year, Israel’s economy grew ...

Banking

Milestones : Qatar Tightens Financial Regulation

QATAR The only way is up: QFC moves to new, gleaming headquarters. Rich in natural gas, the Gulf nation of Qatar has one of the fastest-growing economies in the world, with increasing demand for financial products and ...

Banking

Newsmakers : Banks Face Call To Join Microfinancing Efforts To Ease Poverty

Global Microfinancing, which provides small collateral-free loans of between $15 and $200 to help people in poverty set up their own businesses, is increasingly taking center stage in the battle to eradicate poverty. At the fifth World Chambers ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Newsmakers : The unsinkable mrs. K

Argentina Double act: Nestor Kirchner and the presidential hopeful, Mrs. K. Argentine First Lady and senator Cristina Fernández de Kirchner is poised to replace her husband, President Nestor Kirchner, in the top post in the October 28 ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance : Chinas Solar-energy Ipos Getting Bigger

Global equity/drs China-based manufacturers of products that convert the sun’s rays to electricity are raising growing sums of money on Wall Street to expand their production facilities to meet expanding demand for alternative energy in the face of ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Cover Story : A Changing Agenda

Latin America There is no longer any doubt that Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez’s “Bolivarian Revolution” is having a significant economic and political impact on Latin America. The question now is, Will it last? It’s 11 o’clock in the ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Editor’s Letter : A Turbulent Transformation

In this months cover story we look at the seismic changes that have been taking place recently in the balance of power in Latin America...