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Emerging & Frontier Markets

Taiwan Roundtable: Economy & Business

TAIWAN: CHARTING A STEADY COURSE Moderated by Joseph Giarraputo At a roundtable in Taipei, Global Finance brought together key figures in Taiwan’s banking and finance industry to discuss the prospects for one of Asia’s most successful export-driven economies. Tzung-Ta ...

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Merrill DataSite White Paper – April 2011

Top Ten Ways a Virtual Data Room Can Help You Do Better Deals This must-read guide is for everyone involved...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Better Climate May Trigger Listing Boom

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: GLOBAL EQUITY/DRs By Matt Greco A hot start to the year is suggesting that equity markets worldwide may be setting the stage for a return to a 2007- like frenzy during which they entertain all ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Brazil Faces Life After Lula

UPDATE: BRAZIL By Antonio Guerrero Brazil’s new president has already impressed the business community. But can she impress her own party? Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff, a former Marxist guerrilla fighter, has gotten high grades from the nation’s ...

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Britains Big Gamble

FOCUS: UK RECOVERY STRATEGY By Justin Keay The UK government’s savage spending cuts and deep austerity measures have been touted as a model recovery strategy for stumbling Western economies. Faltering growth is raising questions over the strategy’s validity. ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Company To Watch: Industrias Bachoco / Mexico

INDUSTRIAS BACHOCO: POULTRY PRODUCER OFFERS PROTECTION IN TROUBLED MARKET By Anita Hawser In times of uncertainty investors often turn to so-called defensive stocks, and Mexico poultry producer Industrias Bachoco is certainly that. Despite other problems that may ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Derivatives Show Change In Sentiment

ANALYSIS: INTEREST-RATE AND EQUITY DERIVATIVES By Michael Shari Investors and corporations are revamping their derivatives strategies as they prepare for a resurgence of inflation. At the beginning of the year, investment bankers noticed that institutional investors, hedge ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

DRs: Chinese Firms Believe In US IPO Market

EMERGING MARKETS INVESTOR: DR NEWS By Anita Hawser The wave of Chinese companies opting to list on American exchanges continues with a China-based manufacturer of rare-earth coated and prestressed building materials for roads and bridges issuing five million ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

EM: Bovespa Eyes Other BRIC Markets

EMERGING MARKETS INVESTOR: NEWS By Anita Hawser As the world’s key stock exchanges engage in a flurry of mergers aimed at cutting costs and boosting efficiency, Brazil’s BM&F; Bovespa—the fourth largest exchange operator in the world—is looking to ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Features

Taiwan Roundtable: Economy & Business

Merrill DataSite White Paper – April 2011

Better Climate May Trigger Listing Boom

Brazil Faces Life After Lula

Britains Big Gamble

Company To Watch: Industrias Bachoco / Mexico

Derivatives Show Change In Sentiment

DRs: Chinese Firms Believe In US IPO Market

EM: Bovespa Eyes Other BRIC Markets

Exchange Deals Dominate M&A Landscape

FX: Concerns Linger After Currency War

Mexico’s Uphill Struggle