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Emerging & Frontier Markets

Regulars : EM Roundup China

China’s international trade continued to weaken in April, with both exports and imports falling for the sixth straight month. By Thomas Clouse Strong investment growth, however, may offset some effects of this slackening international trade. According to ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Regulars : EM Roundup India

Following the Congress (I) party’s best federal election showing since 1991, India’s stock markets began to price in an acceleration in the pace of economic reforms. By Aaron Chaze The equity indexes reported the best one-day showing in ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Regulars : Newsmakers : India

In the past decade, India and China have been mentioned in the same breath when discussing the coming giants of the world economy. By Laurence Neville In truth, India has never been in China’s league when it comes ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance : Chinese online gaming firm raises cash in real world

Changyou.com is an online game developer and operator based in China that says it is committed to providing high-quality entertainment and virtual communities, and investors clearly want to play along. The company raised $128 million of real money last month ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : EM ROUNDUP China

China’s foreign exchange reserves, the largest in the world, grew at the lowest rate in eight years in the first quarter as export markets cooled and foreign capital inflows slowed. The reserves increased by $7.7 billion to $1.95 trillion, representing ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : EM ROUNDUP India

Just three months after the management of Satyam Computers, India’s fourth-largest software company, confessed to accounting fraud, the company was acquired by Tech Mahindra, another Indian software company. Tech Mahindra, which is partly owned by British Telecom, prevailed in the ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : China

On track: China's stimulus package will boost railroad investment. China is pouring money into railroads and energy production as the implementation of the country’s 4 trillion yuan ($585 billion) stimulus package moves forward. Urban fixed asset investment grew by 26.5% ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : Chinese Property Firm’s Sales Rise

COMPANY TO WATCH: COLI/CHINA China Overseas Land & Investment (COLI), a subsidiary of China State Construction Engineering, could be a beneficiary of China’s economic stimulus package. China’s largest developer by market value, COLI also focuses on infrastructure investment. The Hong ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : India

Electoral gains: Poll-related spending will help boost India's economy in 2009. According to a consensus taken from a group of prominent Indian economists, including those representing the Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council, J.P. Morgan India and S&P; Asia Pacific, ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : Rush To Modernize Is Matched By The Race To Invest

CHINA Competition between Beijing and Shanghai to become China’s financial center intensified as Beijing officials launched a road show to lure European financial institutions to the capital. Although Shanghai is home to one of China’s two stock exchanges, ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Features: All change

REGIONAL FOCUS ASIA Asia’s economic powerhouses are shifting to a new economic model. The transition will be painful—but will also pay huge dividends. By Thomas Clouse Asia has played a starring role in the story of ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Features: Local Heroes

TREASURY & CASH MANAGEMENT ASIA REGIONAL REPORT Many businesses in Asia were well prepared for the credit crunch, having learned some important lessons in previous regional crises. By Anita Hawser As the subprime crisis rocked the foundations of ...