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Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Equity: Coal India’s IPO Breaks Ground

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS — GLOBAL EQUITY/DRS By Gordon Platt State-owned Coal India, the world's largest coal miner, was seeking to raise up to $3.5 billion in the country's biggest initial public offering, which began on October 18. That ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

FX: Currency Conflict Is Not A War

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS - FOREIGN EXCHANGE By Gordon Platt Brazil's finance minister, Guido Mantega, touched a raw nerve when he stated in late September that an international currency war had broken out. It may seem like a war ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Latin America Focus: Brazil Elections

A TOUGH ACT TO FOLLOW By Denise Bedell Investors are preparing for post-Lula life after Brazil's drawn-out presidential election. When Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva took over as president of Brazil in January 2003, investors and the ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

M&A: Hostile Takeover Bids Increasing

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS - MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS By Gordon Platt Worldwide mergers and acquisitions are increasing, and the proportion of takeover offers that are unsolicited is at the highest level in at least a decade. The value of ...

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OTC Foreign Exchange Market Turnover By Currency, 1998-2010

Currency Distribution Of Global Foreign Exchange Market Turnover You will need javascript to view this feature. Currency distribution of foreign exchange market turnover reflects the share of overall trading volumes of a particular currency. The US dollar continues to decline ...

Banking

Standard Bearers

SECTOR FOCUS — ISLAMIC FINANCIAL SERVICES By Anita Hawser Calls for standardized regulation of Islamic financial services are growing louder in the wake of the global financial crisis. Islamic banks emerged from the recent financial crisis with ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Sun Shines Bright On Solar Wafer Manufacturer

EMERGING MARKETS INVESTOR: COMPANY TO WATCH By Gordon Platt LDK Solar, based in Hi-Tech Industrial Park, Xinyu City, in China's Jiangxi Province, announced an $8.9 billion five-year strategic financing agreement with China Development Bank, easing a long-running cash ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

The Benefits Of Discipline

INTERVIEW — DURMUS YILMAZ Turkey's central bank governor talks to Anita Hawser about inflation, Europe and how his country managed to weather the recent global crisis so well. The Central Bank of Turkey has a long history of ...

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OTC Foreign Exchange Market Turnover By Currency Pair, 1998-2010

Global Foreign Exchange Market Turnover By Currency Pair (US$ billion) You will need javascript to view this feature. Data is from the Bank for International Settlements Triennial Central Bank Survey of Foreign Exchange and Derivatives Market Activity, September, 2010. Click ...

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Equity: Coal India’s IPO Breaks Ground

FX: Currency Conflict Is Not A War

Latin America Focus: Brazil Elections

M&A: Hostile Takeover Bids Increasing

OTC Foreign Exchange Market Turnover By Currency, 1998-2010

Standard Bearers

Sun Shines Bright On Solar Wafer Manufacturer

The Benefits Of Discipline

OTC Foreign Exchange Market Turnover By Currency Pair, 1998-2010

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