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  • Market expectations of interest rate stability fly in the face of growing signs of inflationary pressure and the likelihood of a move by the Federal Reserve.
  • The region’s rapid growth is changing the investment banking landscape beyond recognition as the fee pool grows. How are the major international firms tackling the opportunities, and which new products are creating the biggest buzz?
  • Event risk remains the biggest threat to the world’s economic prospects. But globalization means that, although economic imbalances might persist, the likelihood of a major worldwide correction is low.
  • Portugal’s investment banks are holding their own, thanks in part to increased international cooperation between prominent local brokerages across Europe.
  • As Latin America’s local markets develop strongly, banks are still figuring how best to cover them. Should they buy a target, grow organically or even consider a local tie-up? And which markets should they be present in? Sudip Roy reports.
  • One of the main reasons why investment banks are focusing more of their efforts on alternative areas, such as principal finance, structured finance and real estate finance, is because these are high-margin products. One of the big trends over the past three years has been the diminishing value of traditional debt capital markets business, especially sovereign deals, even as investment banking services to the region become more lucrative.
  • M&A, privatizations and the emergence of a new group of investors have helped boost interest and liquidity in the Portuguese equity market. This is tempting some companies to raise capital on the stock exchange. However, some of the biggest potential deals from the government could go elsewhere. Peter Koh reports from Lisbon.
  • Egyptian telecoms group Weather Investments continues its penetration of European markets following the acquisition last month of Greek rival TIM Hellas. The deal comes 18 months after the company, which is 97% owned by Naguib Sawiris, bought Italy’s Wind, which was the largest acquisition in Europe by a Middle East concern.
  • "We lost more money than any other bank during the crisis because of our high profile, and if we speak to the media again at this time we could suffer again. We have worked hard to achieve a lower profile in the press."
  • As is the fate of most technologies, algorithmic trading is spreading from the developed markets to the developing. Mexican broker-dealer Finamex is the latest to catch the bug, announcing on February 20 that it had chosen US-based Progress Software’s Apama platform to offer algorithmic trading to its buy-side customers.
  • Venezuela’s president, Hugo Chávez, has signed a deal with London mayor Ken Livingstone to supply the UK’s capital with cheap oil to help run the city’s buses.
  • Blackstone used a rapid-fire trading-style approach in its recent record-breaking LBO. But can we expect disasters comparable to those of the early 1990s?