Emerging Markets | Global Finance

Sanctions against Iran increased after the storming of the UK embassy in Tehran on November 29.

Chinese regulators have targeted state-owned enterprises in an anti-monopoly investigation for the first time.

Sberbank posted a 74% jump in third-quarter profits on the back of sharp growth in lending.

Corporate borrowers in India have been hard hit by the rupee slide.

Nigeria is reviewing industrial policies to encourage foreign companies' local manufacturing.

The Brazilian government took fiscal policy steps that include $1.5 billion in tax cuts.

The Bolsa Mexicana de Valores exchange in Mexico City says it will introduce faster trading technology by the middle of 2012 in an effort to attract more high-frequency traders.

New unsponsored American depositary receipt (ADR) program creation is likely to slow down in the short to medium term, according to a report by Celent, a Boston-based financial research and consulting firm.

After KGHM Polska Miedź reported that its third-quarter 2011 profits had tripled from the same period a year earlier, the Polish government immediately announced a significant increase in taxes on the company. Based in Lubin, Poland, KGMH is one of the world’s largest producers of copper and silver.