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Editor’s Letter: Changing Of The Guard?
For the first time since 2007, advanced economies are contributing more to global growth than developing ones...
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Equity: IPO Markets Gain Momentum
CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS By Gordon Platt The global market for initial public offerings continued at a quick pace in early August, led by the US and the Asia-Pacific region, according to Renaissance Capital. Sprouts Farmers Market, which operates ...
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Frontier Markets Report: Côte d’Ivoire
RETURN TO GLORY? <br />
Côte d’Ivoire has the opportunity to regain its status as a leading African economy. Blessed with a wealth of natural resources, a pleasant climate, a strategicallocationand a level of infrastructure unrivaled in West Africa, Côte d’Ivoire was long recognized as one of the continent postcolonial stars.
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FX: Analysts Still Bullish On Dollar
CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS By Gordon Platt The Federal Reserve is expected to gradually cut back on its bond purchases, becoming the first of the major central banks to do so. The divergence in US monetary policy from those ...
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India: Now Third-Largest Global Economy
MILESTONES By Erik Heinrich India has passed Japan as the world’s third-largest economy, according to a recent report from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). The same report lowered the OECD’s estimate for India’s growth ...
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Japan: Vote Of Confidence For Abenomics
NEWSMAKERS By Thomas Clouse Stability may have finally returned to Japanese politics, now that the coalition led by Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe and his Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) has won a majority of seats in the upper ...
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M&A: Telecoms, Media Deals Rise In Down Market
CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS By Gordon Platt Technology, media and telecomsthe TMT sectoris enjoying a surge in deal activity this year,...
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Tax Reform Improving Business Clime In Sub-Saharan African Countries
Many of the 19 Francophone countries of Sub-Saharan Africathat is, those whose citizens speak French and who were otherwise influenced...
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UK: BoE Appointee Has EU Influence
NEWSMAKERS By Gilly Wright The surprise appointment of Sir Jon Cunliffe as deputy governor of the Bank of England shows how seriously the UK takes challenges to its financial sector. From November, Cunliffe will be responsible for ...
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US: Recovery Slow Despite GDP Revisions
MILESTONES By Gordon Platt Rewriting economic history going back to 1929, the Commerce department’s Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) increased the size of the US economy by $560 billion. That is the equivalent of the output of the ...
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Prudential Chafes Under SIFI Designation
The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act celebrated its third birthday in July, and US regulators and their...
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Back Page: Polls and Stats – The Impact Of Rising Prosperity On Economic Growth
The Impact Of Rising Prosperity On Economic Growth Growth in the world’s economy is moving large numbers of people out of poverty, and if the trend continues, the shift will be dramatic in many countries by the end of ...