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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. ...

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 ...