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Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : Indias Little Car Has Big Ambitions

Company To Watch: Tata Motors/india Mumbai-based Tata Motors, which is trying to buy Ford Motor’s premier Jaguar and Land Rover brands, unveiled the world’s cheapest car, the $2,500 Nano, at the Auto Expo in New Delhi in January. Dubbed the ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : Securities Markets Become More Open

China Morgan Stanley: Subprime losses have been plugged by China Investment Corp. China will allow foreign brokerage firms to play stronger roles in the country’s securities markets, according to new guidelines that took effect ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : Tata Fires First Shot In Auto Price War

India Tata Motors' new Nano: Launch triggered a sell-off in India's auto sector. Tata Motors, one of India’s largest domestic truck and passenger car makers, unveiled a car for India’s domestic market priced at ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Milestones : Chinas Year Of Rat Fraught With Risk

China Filling up: China’s consumers may face shortages soon. While the Chinese horoscope attributes such auspicious qualities as intelligence, charisma and compassion to those born in the Year of the Rat, which begins on February 7, economists are ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Cover Story: Asia’s big year

Asia’s most dynamic economies are amassing huge cash fortunes that they can then wield to increase their power around the world. Will 2008 be the year when we t ruly see the balance of global power shift to the ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : Chinas Biggest Drugstore Lists Adrs

NEWS China Nepstar Chain Drugstore, already the largest drugstore in China based on the number of directly operated outlets, plans to vastly increase its size with the proceeds of its initial public offering of American depositary receipts ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : Road Spending Moves Into A Higher Gear

INDIA Hold-up: Aging roads are hindering Indias growth. Twenty leading global and Indian infrastructure construction companies are bidding for the contract to build a $10 billion eight-lane expressway in the northern Indian state of Uttar ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : Tensions Rise With The United States

CHINA Hong Kong: Focus of tension with the US. China stoked military tension with the United States by denying entry to a number of US naval vessels looking to dock in Hong Kong. In the most publicized ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Features : A Mission To India

HEALTHCARE CHARITY Global Finance charity partner Amrit Davaa spent two weeks in India providing healthcare to children at a remote orphanage and to locals. Editor Dan Keeler accompanied the medical team on its mission. Dr Becki Giusti checks ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Milestones : China Faces Growing Skills Shortage

CHINA Filling up: China’s consumers may face shortages soon. While the Chinese horoscope attributes such auspicious qualities as intelligence, charisma and compassion to those born in the Year of the Rat, which begins on February 7, ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance : Petrochina Ipo Spurs Shanghai Stock Surge

GLOBAL EQUITY/DRS PetroChina, China’s largest oil and gas producer, added fuel to the fire of Shanghai’s overheated stock market last month with its initial public offering on the mainland. The company’s A-shares surged 163% in their $8.9 billion ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : Chinese Developer Delays Bond Sale

COMPANY TO WATCH: COUNTRY GARDEN HOLDINGS/CHINA Shares of Country Garden Holdings, a leading China-based real estate group, rose 37% in their debut in April on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. More recently, the company postponed a ...