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Regional Report: GCC

GUNS AND BUTTER The GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council) countries, led by Saudi Arabia, will spend $120 billion over the next few years to buy advanced fighter planes and anti-missile defense systems. They are spending even larger sums to placate ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Russia: Tensions Between Leadership Duo

EMERGING MARKETS ROUNDUP: RUSSIA by Kim Iskyan Medvedev and Putin go head to head During his June 17 speech at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, Russia’s version of Davos, president Dmitry Medvedev highlighted his reformist stance ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Technology & Treasury Management 2011

Banking

Asia’s Banks On The Fast Track

FOCUS: INVESTMENT BANKING IN ASIA By Michael Shari Asia’s big banks are elbowing out their Western rivals as demand for financial services skyrockets in the region—and beyond. One of the great ironies lost in the panic of ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Company To Watch: Cencosud/Chile

LATIN AMERICAN RETAILER PLANS $2 BILLION SHOPPING SPREE By Gordon Platt Santiago, Chile–based Cencosud, the largest retailer in Chile by sales and the third biggest in Latin America, plans to issue up to $2 billion of new shares ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Debt: High-Yield Market Calm Amid Storm

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: CORPORATE DEBT By Gordon Platt High-yield bonds remained remarkably stable during the sell-off in global equity markets and the increase in global market volatility last month, but future gains in the prices of these below-investment-grade ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

DR News: Networking Craze Pays Off For China’s Facebook Clone

EMERGING MARKETS INVESTOR: DR NEWS By Gordon Platt China-based Renren, a copycat of Facebook, became the first social networking site anywhere to be listed on an exchange, with a solid debut on the New York Stock Exchange last ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

DRs: Sovereign Funds Boost Glencore

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: GLOBAL EQUITY/DRS By Gordon Platt Switzerland-based Glencore International, a commodities trading and mining company, could have timed its initial public offering better. Amid the steepest decline in commodity markets in years, Glencore was looking ...

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 ...