June 2005

Argentina’s default and subsequent meager settlement for creditors will change forever the rules for emerging market investors. Raising funds will likely get much more difficult. Giullermo Nielsen is wearing a big smile these days—as well he might. On Friday, May ...

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Argentina’s default and subsequent meager settlement for creditors will change forever the rules for emerging market investors. Raising funds will likely get much more difficult. Giullermo Nielsen is wearing a big smile these days—as well he might. On Friday, May ...

Awash With Liquidity Skyrocketing oil prices have brought a flood of liquidity into the Middle East, providing vast opportunities for fleet-footed investors and financial institutions. The near doubling of crude oil prices over the past 18 months has generated enormous ...

Making it Pay B. Ramalinga Raju Satyam Computer Services started as a software services provider in 1988 in India’s twin cities of Hyderabad and Secunderabad. Today, those cities rival Bangalore as the information technology capital of India, thanks in large ...

Russia Protesters in Uzbekistan A spate of high-level diplomatic contacts between the United States and Russia underscored America’s harder stance toward the Kremlin. During visits to Russia in early May, both Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and President George W. ...

DR News Merrill Lynch has launched a proprietary index of American depositary receipts, the MLADR index, comprising 180 large, actively traded stocks, many of which its analysts cover. The index is designed to present the opportunities that ADRs as an ...

India Indian iron ore mining project under threat Plans for India’s single biggest direct foreign investment project were in turmoil in mid-May after mining giant BHP Billiton, one of two potential investors, was reported to be pulling out of the ...

Brazil Lula (bottom right) hosts an Arab/Latin-American summit As the Brazilian central bank hikes the benchmark lending rate to curb inflation, resulting high interest rates are prompting a streak of IPOs on the São Paulo stock exchange (Bovespa), as corporates ...

News Vincent Duhamel State Street Global Advisers, or SSgA, was selected to manage the ABF Pan Asia Bond Index Fund, or PAIF, which was initiated by 11 Asian and Pacific central banks and monetary authorities. “Modeled on cost-effective and efficient ...

China Taiwan’s president Chen Shui-bian Two of Taiwan's political leaders were met with enthusiasm from the Chinese people and the domestic media during recent visits to the mainland. Lien Chen in late April became the first chairman of Taiwan's Chinese ...

Unitd States José Miguel Insulza Washington was dealt a blow when neither of its two candidates to head the Organization of American States (OAS)—considered a US-dominated regional organization—garnered enough votes. Instead, Chilean interior minister José Miguel Insulza was elected secretary ...

Europe/United States Paul Druckman With companies on both sides of the Atlantic contemplating a raft of regulatory measures around financial accounting, leading European commentators called on European and US regulators to seek a “common international approach.” In a damning speech, ...

Hong Kong Loosening ties: Joseph Yam, head of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority The Hong Kong Monetary Authority on May 18 loosened the Hong Kong dollar’s 22-year-old peg to the US dollar, allowing the currency to trade in a band ...

United States McDonough: “Too much effort expended” US regulators took two steps last month to reduce the costs of complying with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, saying that companies and auditors should use more common sense in applying the new rules on ...

Spreads Widen as Investors Flee to US Treasury Bonds US companies will be paying more to borrow money in the wake of the widening of credit spreads between corporate and treasury bonds following the downgrading of General Motors and Ford ...

SEC Likely to Change Rules for Securities Offerings to Attract Foreign Issuers Now that the burdens imposed by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act have scared a number of non-US issuers away from the US capital markets, the Securities and Exchange Commission is ...

Dollar Bulls Run Again, as US Economy Heats Up The pieces of the US economic puzzle fell neatly into place last month, creating a picture of strength that enabled the dollar bulls to gain the upper hand. The euro dropped ...

Latin American Companies Seeking US Takeovers Companies based in Latin America are seeking to acquire US companies in order to buy into the fast-growing Hispanic market in the US, where 40.4 million Spanish-speaking people control $700 billion in purchasing power. ...

Mexico AMLO: Ready for the race When the Mexican government moved to keep Mexico City mayor Andrés Manuel López Obrador—commonly referred to by his initials, AMLO—from seeking the presidency next year, some 250,000 Mexicans took to the streets. The outcry ...

United States Mark Hurd Mark Hurd, chief executive and president of Hewlett-Packard, took the reins at the Palo Alto, California-based computer firm only at the end of March, but already he is being given credit by some investors for turning ...

United Kingdom Sir Roy: Lets rip Emotions flared in the UK last month when US billionaire Malcolm Glazer, owner of the Florida-based Tampa Bay Buccaneers football team, gained control of Manchester United, the revered British soccer club. Sir Roy Gardner, ...

United States texto Philip J. Purcell, the embattled chief executive of Morgan Stanley, can’t seem to catch an even break. A Florida jury ruled last month that Morgan Stanley, the world’s biggest securities firm by market value, must pay billionaire ...