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Emerging & Frontier Markets

EM News: Indonesia Draws Nearer To Investment Grade

EMERGING MARKETS INVESTOR: NEWS By Gordon Platt Indonesia’s stock market was expected to take a breather this year, after being one of the star performers of 2010, with an advance of 46%. Instead, the benchmark Jakarta Composite ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets Roundup: China

TRADE SURPLUS GROWS SHARPLY By Thomas Clouse China’s trade surplus jumped to $11.4 billion in April, after the country posted its first quarterly deficit in seven years in the first three months of the year. China moves ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Fast Favorites

SPOTLIGHT: FOREIGN EXCHANGE TRADING By Anita Hawser Technology is enabling faster and more-flexible trading in foreign exchange—and helping drive the rapid rise in daily trading volume. Erik Lehtis, president of Chicago-based Dynamic FX Consulting, has experienced firsthand ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

FX: Big Overseas Investments For China

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: FOREIGN EXCHANGE By Gordon Platt China is planning major investments in foreign companies, including those in the US, in order to help turn its mountain of paper dollars and other currencies into hard assets and ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

M&A: Tech Mergers Show Smart Increase

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS By Gordon Platt An expanding global economy with a healthy appetite for smart technology and mobile devices is spawning a wave of mergers and acquisitions in the technology sector. Microsoft’s $8.5 ...

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Foreign Exchange Risk Management White Paper – May 2011

Foreign Exchange Risk Management Never before have global companies been so exposed to currency market volatility and the risks associated...

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 ...