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Emerging & Frontier Markets

Country Focus: Peru

SECOND ACT By Antonio Guerrero In his second term, Peru’s president Alan Garcia is making amends for the shambles he left his country in after his first term. Peruvian president Alan Garcia is leading one of the ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Economic Slowdown Could Benefit Dollar

CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS – FOREIGN EXCHANGE By Gordon Platt The world economic recovery may be slowing more rapidly than previously...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets Investor

EMERGING MARKETS INVESTOR: NEWS By Gordon Platt India's equity market indices have gained more than 80% since early 2009, but the market lacks depth and breadth, with a high concentration of trading in a few top companies, according ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets: Africa

ROUNDUP By Antonio Guerrero Uneasy balance: Mugabe (right) and Tsvangirai still have issues with power sharing South Africa's state-owned development lender Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) plans to issue bonds and sell an estimated $3.6 billion worth of its ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets: Brazil

ROUNDUP By Antonio Guerrero With Brazil's economy expected to grow at around 7% this year and borrowing costs declining, Brazilian companies are seeking financing for their expansion plans. MMX, a leading metals and mining company, hopes to raise ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets: China

ROUNDUP By Thomas Clouse The real deal: Insurers now have the chance to invest China's most recent economic figures show policymakers' efforts to reign in the property market without derailing the country's economic recovery are achieving mixed results. ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets: Chinese Firm’s ADRs Trade On OTC International

Investor: DR News By Gordon Platt Shandong Luoxin Pharmacy Stock Company has become the first China-based firm to trade American depositary receipts (ADRs) on the over-the-counter market’s premier platform, OTCQX International. Based in Linyi City in the eastern ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets: India

ROUNDUP By Aaron Chaze With its fifth rate rise of the year India's central bank, the Reserve Bank of India, launched another attack on inflation last month. The bank upped its key rate to 6.0% from 5.75% in ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Emerging Markets: Microfinance Funds Get FX Hedging Help

Investor: News By Gordon Platt Hedging currency exposure in illiquid and volatile frontier markets is about to get easier for investment funds focused on microfinance. Cygma Fund, based in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, is being set up as a ...

Banking

Emerging Markets: Middle East

ROUNDUP By Gordon Platt The six member countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) agreed at a meeting in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, last month to postpone a planned customs union for several additional years. At the exceptional meeting ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets: Russia

ROUNDUP By Kim Iskyan Inflation has in recent weeks climbed rapidly up the macroeconomic agenda in Russia, as the summer's wildfires and drought throughout the country decimated grain crops and triggered sharp price hikes. Inflation has long been ...
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