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Emerging & Frontier Markets
Company To Watch: Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works/Russia
UPGRADES INCREASE COMPETITIVENESS FOR MAGNITOGORSK By Gordon Platt Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works (MMK), one of Russia’s top steel producers, is upgrading its production facilities to improve its competitiveness in the global steel market and replace imports in ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Debt: US Corporate Bonds Dampening
CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: CORPORATE DEBT By Gordon Platt Weak economic signals gave a boost to bond prices in the second quarter, but rising economic risk in the US makes it unlikely that the fast pace of debt issuance ...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
DR News: Mothballed Indian GDRs Coming To Market
MOTHBALLED INDIAN GDRS COMING TO MARKET By Gordon Platt More than $1 billion of planned global depositary receipt (GDR) issues from companies in India were delayed in March, when market conditions deteriorated following the outbreak of hostilities in ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
DRs: Capital Raisings Nearly Triple
CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: GLOBAL EQUITY/DRS By Gordon Platt Capital raisings using depositary receipts (DRs) nearly tripled in the first half of 2011, compared to the same period a year earlier, while DR trading volume and the number of ...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
EM News: Chinas Inflation Near Peak, Investors Eye Earnings Growth
CHINA’S INFLATION NEAR PEAK, INVESTORS EYE EARNINGS GROWTH By Gordon Platt China’s monetary policy-tightening is advanced relative to other economies, and domestic inflation, which is centered in food prices, may be near a peak, analysts say. “As ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
FX: Euro Rebounds As EFSF Expands
CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: FOREIGN EXCHANGE By Gordon Platt The EU summit in July not only reached agreement on a second...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
M&A: Energy, Power Light Up Global M&A
CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS: MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS By Gordon Platt The energy and power sector was the most active for worldwide mergers and acquisitions in the first half of 2011 as the value of global deals of all types ...
Banking
Regional Report: Central Eastern Europe
WAITING ON EUROLAND By Jonathan Gregson The benefits of joining the eurozone are not as clear as they once were for countries in Central and Eastern Europe. The countries of Central Europe have long shaken off their ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Special Report: Equity Derivatives
FOCUS:TRADING SHIFTS TO EXCHANGES By Gordon Platt New rules to reduce systemic derivatives market risk and increase transparency are still...
Banking
Special Report: Islamic Finance In Asia
MALAYSIAN DOMINANCE PUT TO THE TEST By Anita Hawser Long the leading force in Asia-Pacific’s Islamic finance industry, Malaysia is facing growing regional competition. Anyone that does business or invests in Asia-Pacific will tell you that, as ...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Africa: Ethanol May Trigger Food Fight
EMERGING MARKETS ROUNDUP: AFRICA by Antonio Guerrero Sierra Leone opts for controversial biofuel production Africa is poised to enter the world’s growing biofuels market. The biotechnology unit at Addax, a Switzerland-based investment firm, plans to open a ...