UNCTAD’s Floundering FDI Flourish
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Geneva-based UNCTAD issued its annual global FDI picture with the $1.5 trillion total in 2011 to stay flat this year ...
The Euro’s Small Sickness Spots
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Cyprus after weeks of speculation formally requested EU help to recapitalize its 3 main banks devastated by Greece’s 75 percent ...
Indonesia’s Bank Shadow Play Shapes
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Poor-performing Indonesian stocks were further battered after authorities announced new limits on foreign bank ownership in the middle of a ...
Hungary’s Truculent Transaction Modes
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The Budapest exchange fought to stay positive as IMF-EU compromise to allow program negotiations was again jeopardized by the Orban ...
Vietnam’s Beleaguered Bad Debt Battleground
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Vietnamese shares topped the MSCI Asia frontier through July on a 20 percent increase despite the central bank’s admission that ...
Africa’s Ratings Spotlight Shimmer
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Decades after assigning it first Sub-Sahara Africa sovereign rating and long after expiration of a US government program that paid ...
Mexico’s Slick Oiled Machine Mastery
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Mexican PRI standard-bearer Pena Nieto returned the party to Los Pinos after a decade in opposition in a 5-point victory ...
Egypt’s Beguiling Brotherhood Feelings
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Muslim Brotherhood candidate Morsi won a narrow presidential election victory over former regime stalwart Shafiq a week after the military ...
The World Bank’s Aid and Trade Finance Funk
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The World Bank’s June Global Economic Prospects publication urged developing countries to brace for a “sharp turn for the worse” ...
Russia’s Flagging Energy Edicts
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Russian stocks were down 10 percent at the rear of the MSCI main Emerging Europe pack as partial energy privatizations ...