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Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : Roaring Economy Boosts State-Owned Companies’ Profits

CHINA Riding high: China's economic growth continues to break records. China’s economy grew 11.4% in 2007, its fastest rate in 13 years. Fourth-quarter GDP growth fell to 11.2% year-on-year, however, as government tightening measures and weakening global demand ...

Banking

Cover Story: Banking Bonzana

China International and domestic banks are spreading the net ever wider in their efforts to bring financial services to China’s increasingly wealthy population. China has outdone itself. The country’s economy grew by 11.5% in the first three ...

Emerging & Frontier Markets

Emerging Markets : China’s Baidu.Com Tops Dr Trading Activity In 2007

Dr News Beijing-based Baidu.com, China’s leading Internet search provider, was the most actively traded depositary receipt in the world last year, according to The Bank of New York Mellon’s annual year-end report on the DR industry. In ...

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

Asia Pacific

Emerging Markets : Roaring Economy Boosts State-Owned Companies’ Profits

Cover Story: Banking Bonzana

Emerging Markets : China’s Baidu.Com Tops Dr Trading Activity In 2007

Emerging Markets : Indias Little Car Has Big Ambitions

Emerging Markets : Securities Markets Become More Open

Emerging Markets : Tata Fires First Shot In Auto Price War

Milestones : Chinas Year Of Rat Fraught With Risk

Cover Story: Asia’s big year

Emerging Markets : Chinas Biggest Drugstore Lists Adrs

Emerging Markets : Road Spending Moves Into A Higher Gear

Emerging Markets : Tensions Rise With The United States

Features : A Mission To India