Japan’s Straying Standoff Routines
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Top Chinese officials and bankers boycotted the IMF’s annual event in Tokyo as Japanese automakers also felt the strain from ...
Zimbabwe’s Wayward Waterfall Soak
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Zimbabwe stocks finished Q3 with a 10 percent MSCI frontier index pop despite drought and banking and diamond setbacks and ...
Global Bank Regulation’s Second Best Solution
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On the eve of the IMF-World Bank annual gathering a Brookings Institute working group issued a report advocating a “second-best” ...
Local Bonds’ Evocative Evolution Story
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Although hard-currency fund inflows are well ahead this year on flight to safety and other considerations, local bonds’ asset class ...
Central Europe’s Easy Ride Riddle
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Stock markets in Hungary and Poland were up 20 percent through Q3 on the MSCI index on anticipated easing of ...
Mexico’s Hedged Bet Hemming
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Mexican shares continued to lead Latam indices as officials struck another oil hedge to guard against lower prices and Banco ...
South Africa’s Platinum Reputation Rupture
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The Johannesburg Exchange fought to stay positive as foreign investors dumped premier mining shares as bloody confrontations and closures spread ...
Islamic Bonds Asia-Gulf Gulp
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While Asian and Gulf equity markets have carried disappointment this year, the Islamic sukuk bonds in and between both regions ...
The Sub-Sahara’s Bond Breakthrough Bid
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As the African Development Bank carried out bond data and technical initiatives based on the ADB’s post-Asia crisis model, Nigeria ...
The World Bank’s State Finance Fiends
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In its inaugural Global Financial Development Report released on the fourth anniversary of Lehman Brothers’ failure the World Bank examined ...