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Emerging & Frontier Markets

Regional Report: Africa

CLOUDY HORIZONS By Antonio Guerrero While South Africa is attempting to get out from under its recession, countries in sub-Saharan Africa are dealing with the impact of volatile global oil markets and decreased investment from their neighbor to ...

Features

Sibos 2011

Welcome To Global Finance’s daily Sibos Newsletter. Each day we will report on the events of the day, major happenings...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Treasury & Cash Management Guide 2011

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Company To Watch: Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works/Russia

UPGRADES INCREASE COMPETITIVENESS FOR MAGNITOGORSK By Gordon Platt Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works (MMK), one of Russia’s top steel producers, is upgrading its production facilities to improve its competitiveness in the global steel market and replace imports in ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Debt: US Corporate Bonds Dampening

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: CORPORATE DEBT By Gordon Platt Weak economic signals gave a boost to bond prices in the second quarter, but rising economic risk in the US makes it unlikely that the fast pace of debt issuance ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

DR News: Mothballed Indian GDRs Coming To Market

MOTHBALLED INDIAN GDRS COMING TO MARKET By Gordon Platt More than $1 billion of planned global depositary receipt (GDR) issues from companies in India were delayed in March, when market conditions deteriorated following the outbreak of hostilities in ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

DRs: Capital Raisings Nearly Triple

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: GLOBAL EQUITY/DRS By Gordon Platt Capital raisings using depositary receipts (DRs) nearly tripled in the first half of 2011, compared to the same period a year earlier, while DR trading volume and the number of ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

EM News: Chinas Inflation Near Peak, Investors Eye Earnings Growth

CHINA’S INFLATION NEAR PEAK, INVESTORS EYE EARNINGS GROWTH By Gordon Platt China’s monetary policy-tightening is advanced relative to other economies, and domestic inflation, which is centered in food prices, may be near a peak, analysts say. “As ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

FX: Euro Rebounds As EFSF Expands

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: FOREIGN EXCHANGE By Gordon Platt The EU summit in July not only reached agreement on a second...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

M&A: Energy, Power Light Up Global M&A

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS By Gordon Platt The energy and power sector was the most active for worldwide mergers and acquisitions in the first half of 2011 as the value of global deals of all types ...

Banking

Regional Report: Central Eastern Europe

WAITING ON EUROLAND By Jonathan Gregson The benefits of joining the eurozone are not as clear as they once were for countries in Central and Eastern Europe. The countries of Central Europe have long shaken off their ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Special Report: Equity Derivatives

FOCUS:TRADING SHIFTS TO EXCHANGES By Gordon Platt New rules to reduce systemic derivatives market risk and increase transparency are still...