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Features : Power Plays
After the summers rash of widespread electricity outages, companies are looking to manage their energy risk. Derivatives may provide an...
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Features : Total Rebuild: Reconstructing Iraq’s Banking System Starts from Scratch
Before Iraqs economy can even begin to recover from the war, its banking system The ruins in Baghdad of the...
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Milestones : Congress Takes Aim At Corporate Tax Cheats
UNITED STATES Frustrated by an Internal Revenue Service that cannot seem to catch corporate tax evaders and that fails to...
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Milestones : Islamic Bond Market Coming Of Age
QATAR The Middle Eastern nation of Qatar sold the biggest-ever Islamic bond in October, a $700 million, seven-year global offering...
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Milestones : Not All Convinced By Russia’s Investment-grade Status
RUSSIA Russia has long been a destination for more adventurous investors, but at the beginning of last month it finally...
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Milestones : Will Statistical Fog Ground Bank Of England?
UNITED KINGDOM It is worth asking whether the statistical fog enveloping the UK economy foreshadows stormy economic weather. Mervyn King,...
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Newsmakers : Markets Can’t Seem To Catch Snow’s Drift
UNITED STATES US treasury secretary John Snow stumbled into a storm in late October after suggesting to a British newspaper...
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Newsmakers : Mexican Billionaire Goes On Telephony Shopping Spree
MEXICO Despite a strong recovery in Latin American stocks this year, the regions stock valuations remain cheap by international standards....
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Newsmakers : New York Detective Puts The Boot In With Barclays
UNITED STATES Retired New York City police detective Jon Kanovsky says he felt helpless and hopeless after his friend New...
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Newsmakers : New York Fed’s New Chief May Be The Man To Save The Dollar
UNITED STATES Foreign exchange market participants are relieved to have somebody who understands their market in the second most powerful...
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Cover Story : Asia
AUSTRALIA AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND BANKING GROUP ANZ Banking Group, the smallest of the four-largest Australian banks, expects to meet...
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Cover Story : Europe
AUSTRIA BANK AUSTRIA CREDITANSTALT Austrias largest banking group, with total assets of approximately $166 billion, has just become Europes largest...