India Times:
The global steel industry's much-awaited demand recovery next year will differ widely across regions, with mature economies facing a slow and painful improvement and emerging markets enjoying a robust comeback. (Read More)
India Times:
BRIC stocks are likely to rise by 30-40% within four years despite a likely correction. Gainers: BSE ( A, B ), NSE | Losers: BSE ( A, B ), NSE I Stocks 52 Week: High, Low. (Read More)
The Guardian:
• More than 500 people, plus 1,000 online bidders, attend sale at Sheraton hotel in New York• Items auctioned range from personalised New York Mets baseball jacket to family dog bowlValuation has always been an elastic concep (Read More)
The Guardian:
Vladimir Nabokov's unfinished novella, The Original of Laura, is being published despite the author's instructions that it be destroyed after his death. Martin Amis confronts the tortuous questions posed by a genius in declin (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
Vladimir Nabokov's unfinished novella, The Original of Laura, is being published despite the author's instructions that it be destroyed after his death. Martin Amis confronts the tortuous questions posed by a genius in declin (Read More)
The Guardian:
The president of Brazil stands for democracy, and for the poor. These are still valuable qualities in the 21st centuryPresident Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil, who has received the Chatham House prize for 2009 , is one o (Read More)
Reuters:
(Reuters) - International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn has proposed creating a common pool of reserves to help rebalance the world economy by dissuading emerging market countries from accumulating massive foreig (Read More)
FT Alphaville:
Peter Oppenheimer's global research team at Goldman Sachs have come out with what they are calling two new BRIC Nifty 50 stock baskets.One of these so-called baskets covers companies in developed markets that have heavy BRIC (Read More)
The Guardian:
Bric-a-brac of TMS's late scorer and Hutton's holiday letter the pick of the bunch at Sotheby's todaySome of the late Bill Frindall's bric-a-brac comes under the hammer in London this morning to open Sotheby's biannual auctio (Read More)
Emerging Voice:
Much has been made of Brazil’s offshore hydrocarbon deposits particularly in the Tupi oil & gas reserves which have been touted by state owned energy firm Petrobras as containing up to 5-8 billion barrels of recoverable oi (Read More)
FT.com - Capital Markets News and Data:
Russia has experienced a large fall in syndicated lending, in sharp contrast to the fortunes of other so-called Bric nations, with China and India having seen record levels of loan issuance in the year to date. (Read More)
Emerging Voice:
Here at Emerging Voice, we have been following the the whole Nokia / China Mobile / 3G story for a good while, you can pick up on some of those previous posts here : Nokia in China Today, Nokia has finally launched it’s first (Read More)
Emerging Voice:
Russia’s economy may have expanded as much as 4% in the last quarter of 2009 following a timid return to growth in the third quarter, according to Deputy Economy Minister Andrei Klepach speaking at a conference in Moscow la (Read More)
Emerging Voice:
As we have discussed in previous articles, Brazil’s retail banking sector has been enjoying a buoyant 2009 so far. This would seem set to continue as payment card processor Redecard posts an 18% jump in financial volumes.T (Read More)
Wall Street Journal:
Merriam-Webster defines “stampede” as “a wild headlong rush or flight of frightened animals.” A biological response by which herd animals avoid predators, the cruel irony of a stampede is that, regardless if it’s wild horses (Read More)
The Guardian:
The crime writer raises a glass to the city that came out top yet again in the Observer Travel AwardsHow is it possible for a city to be both blazingly public and intensely private at the self-same time? Somehow Edinburgh man (Read More)
Emerging Voice:
While the Chinese economy expanded 8.9% in Q3, propped up by easy credit & continued government spending programmes, Europe, US & Japan continue to flounder. The world’s 3rd largest economy has recorded 7.7% overall growth (Read More)
FT.com - Africa:
A growing number in Beijing are calling for some of China's reserves to be channelled to the Bric nations – Brazil, Russia, India and China – and other developing countries. (Read More)
Reuters:
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India could top the list of business destinations among BRIC nations, if best practices and regulations followed by some cities are implemented by others, a report by World Bank said on Tuesday.
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