Economics, Policy & Regulation
Country Report Lebanon
REFORM CANDIDATE By Justin Keay Sharply rising capital inflows and a stable banking sector have helped Lebanon achieve impressive economic...
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OTC Foreign Exchange Market Turnover By Instrument, 1998-2010
>Global Foreign Exchange Market Turnover By Instrument (US$ billion) You will need javascript to view this feature. According to the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), the Triennial Central Bank Survey of Foreign Exchange and Derivatives Market Activity is intended “ ...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Coming In From The Cold
ANALYSIS : CUBA By Antonio Guerrero For the first time in decades, signs are beginning to appear that Cuba may be softening its socialist stance. When Cuba's former president Fidel Castro told an American journalist in September ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Debt: High-Yield Bonds Break Records
CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS — CORPORATE DEBT By Gordon Platt The third quarter set a record for global issuance of high-yield bonds and pushed the year-to-date total above any full-year total on record, according to Thomson Reuters. Analysts expect ...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
DRs: Russia Revokes License Of Moscow Depositary
EMERGING MARKETS INVESTOR: DR NEWS By Gordon Platt The Russian securities market regulator revoked the license of the Moscow Central Depositary, following an audit that alleged that the depositary ignored court rulings, the regulator's own instructions and regulations ...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
EM Funds Attract Record Inflows
EMERGING MARKETS INVESTOR: NEWS By Gordon Platt Equity funds that are mandated to invest in all emerging markets globally ended September with their 18th consecutive week of net inflows, according to Cambridge, Massachusetts–based EPFR Global. Year-to-date flows into ...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Emerging Markets Roundup: Africa
ROUNDUP By Antonio Guerrero Ghana’s mining sector gets a funding boost from China Ghana has become the leading recipient in sub-Saharan Africa of Chinese infrastructure financing, giving China unrivaled access to the country's commodities sector. Ghana signed a ...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Emerging Markets Roundup: Brazil
ROUNDUP By Antonio Guerrero Brazil lights up at the prospect of increased foreign investment Sinopec, China's second-largest oil and gas producer, is investing $7.1 billion in the Brazilian unit of Spain's Repsol YPF oil company. The capital increase, ...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Emerging Markets Roundup: China
ROUNDUP By Thomas Clouse Liu: China was furious over his Nobel Prize China's trade surplus fell to a five month low of $16.9 billion in September. Down almost 16% from August the figure reflected slower year-on-year growth rates ...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Emerging Markets Roundup: India
ROUNDUP By Aaron Chaze Mining a rich seam: Coal India lines up India’s largest IPO India's financial markets regulator, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), says it will soon allow the auction of Indian government bonds ...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Emerging Markets Roundup: Middle East
ROUNDUP By Gordon Platt Dubai returns to the capital markets with bond issue Dubai's successful return to the international capital markets could pave the way for state-owned companies to tap the Eurobond market. Dubai's first new issue since ...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Emerging Markets Roundup: Russia
ROUNDUP By Kim Iskyan Hard line: Russian president Medvedev asserts his power Following an exceptionally bitter and increasingly dirty public struggle with the Kremlin, Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov was fired in late September, after 18 years in office. ...