General Emerging Markets

Local Bonds’ Evocative Evolution Story

Although hard-currency fund inflows are well ahead this year on flight to safety and other considerations, local bonds’ asset class ...

Islamic Bonds Asia-Gulf Gulp

While Asian and Gulf equity markets have carried disappointment this year, the Islamic sukuk bonds in and between both regions ...

The World Bank’s State Finance Fiends

In its inaugural Global Financial Development Report released on the fourth anniversary of Lehman Brothers’ failure the World Bank examined ...

Sovereign Ratings’ Convoluted Convergence Convocation

The relative developing-industrial market government re-rating in debt repayment ability over time to overlapping agency grades and instrument spreads has ...

The World Economic Forum’s Reserve Currency Cull

The Geneva-based World Economic Forum disseminated the results from an 18-month project on alternative future international monetary system paths which ...

Offshore Capital’s Tax Justice Scaling

The anti-offshore financial center group Tax Justice Network updated statistics on private banking assets and capital flight showing a combined ...

The Debt Decade’s Redesign Rambling

As debt continues to outstrip equity in index and fund flow outcomes fixed-income houses have prepared long-term asset class profiles ...

The World Bank’s Aid and Trade Finance Funk

The World Bank’s June Global Economic Prospects publication urged developing countries to brace for a “sharp turn for the worse” ...

Corporate Bonds’ Defiant Default Position

At the same a Brazilian meatpacker postponed a repayment following formal default by an electricity distributor and Chinese authorities came ...

The BRICS’ Wobbly Wall Wreckage

The BRICS club with new entrant South Africa headed into the first half close with declining GDP growth, fund flow ...

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