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Emerging & Frontier Markets

Company To Watch: Iron-Ore Miner Profits From Rising Steel Demand

COMPANY TO WATCH: VALE/BRAZIL By Gordon Platt Rio de Janeiro–based mining company Vale, the world’s largest producer of iron ore, is profiting from growing demand for steel as the global economy recovers.The company’s earnings rose 222% last year ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Debt: High-Yield Issues Break Record

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS:CORPORATE DEBT By Gordon Platt High-Yield Debt Issues Break Record Source: KDP Investment Advisors Corporations worldwide issued more high-yield debt in the first quarter of this year than in any opening quarter since records began ...

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DR News: First Vietnam-Based Company Lists GDRs In London

EMERGING MARKETS INVESTOR: DR NEWS By Gordon Platt Hoang Anh Gia Lai, a conglomerate with interests in real estate and rubber plantations, has become the first Vietnam-based company to list global depositary receipts (GDRs) on the London Stock ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

DRs: China, Russia Lead Capital Raising

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: GLOBAL EQUITY/DRS By Gordon Platt China And Russia To Lead Capital Raising Using Depositary Receipts Companies based in Russia and China are extremely interested in listing overseas and probably will be the biggest issuers ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

EM: Russia Bucks Trend Of Equity Outflows

EMERGING MARKETS INVESTOR: NEWS By Gordon Platt Higher oil prices, and the fact that Russia is the world’s largest oil producer outside the turbulent Middle East and North Africa region, have kept fresh money flowing into Russian equity ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

FX: USD Weakens As Eurozone Rates Rise

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWSFOREIGN EXCHANGE By Gordon Platt Dollar Weakens As Eurozone Rates Are First To Rise Differing monetary policy reactions to the rise in oil prices are driving currency values at the moment, while gains in ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

M&A: Deals Accelerated in First Quarter

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS By Gordon Platt Mergers and acquisitions rebounded in 2010, and the momentum appears to be carrying over into this year. The first three months of 2011 constituted the strongest quarter for ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Regional Report: China in Africa

Pause For Thought By Antonio Guerrero Recent popular uprisings in North Africa and beyond may be causing China to slow its headlong rush into the continent. Over the past decade, China has become a key source ...

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The Middle East 2011

Banking

Go With The Flow

CORPORATE TOOLBOX: LIQUIDITY MANAGEMENT By Anita Hawser Banks are offering increasingly innovative products to help companies make the most of their internal liquidity. It might be hard to picture now, but just five years ago credit was ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Hot Commodities

CENTRAL & EASTERN EUROPE: COMMODITIES CRUNCH By Jonathan Gregson Soaring commodities prices are changing the economic balance of Central & Eastern Europe and Central Asia. Faltering growth in some of the world’s biggest economies may be grabbing ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Regional Report: Asia

ASIA ACTS AMID ADVERSITY By Thomas Clouse The turmoil in the Middle East and North Africa and the devastating consequences of the early March earthquake in Japan are dragging heavily on Asia’s export-led, resource-intensive economic recovery. When ...