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Temasek digs into a big bite of Standard Chartered | Banking Insight

Posted on October 3, 2012 by zyakaira

The Singapore Government’s International investment fund, which bought into some Chinese banks and Citi and Stan Chart during the crisis is having serious rethink of its investment in Emerging market prince Standard Chartered. meanwhile, “big brother ” GIC which invested…

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Posted in Amitonomics, Banking, Retail Lifestyle, US

Bank Results Season: You won’t catch them speaking Emerging Markets again! (StanChart H1 2012)

Posted on August 1, 2012 by zyakaira

HSBC’s fastest groing markets mandate and StanChart’s Emerging Markets prince characterisation remains but even for Stanchart, growing markets have changed since they pressed forward in 2009 thinking of their home advantage to push thru. India in particula and marketso utside…

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Posted in Amitonomics, Banking, China, Financial Markets, Financial Services, Global, India

US Economy (The week ahead): June 24, 2012 – June 30, 2012 — H1 ends on the lowest notes

Posted on June 23, 2012 by zyakaira

With the GDP numbers coming in on Thursday for a Q2 which was anyway expected to get worse, car sales incl uding imports are not bringing in any white hope nor counting to the cyclical recession US is looking in the face…

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Posted in Amitonomics, Bailout Nation, US

Why Nations Fail? – The new bestseller | Book insight

Posted on March 23, 2012 by zyakaira

See larger image Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover) By (author) Daron Acemoglu, James Robinson Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries: Why are some nations rich…

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China in Brazil:: Moving Beyond Resources :: Increasing FDI to $27 bln

Posted on December 4, 2011 by zyakaira

China’s own FDI has been increasing exponentially since 2006. In 2007 itself, much at aa time when Euro and Dollar were the only active currencies with a global acceptance, China, with its currency now in global infancy had started spreading…

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China Bank completes Standard Bank Argentina purchase | Advantage Dealbook

Posted on August 8, 2011 by zyakaira

Even as FDI reforms are welcomed in India and pace of investment (FII exits)shifts radically out of India and Brazil, growing economies in Malaysia, Philippines and Indonesia outward FDI  by India and China though encouraging, has been fledgling at best…

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The retail lifestyle champions: Coke reports super normal profits

Posted on February 9, 2011 by zyakaira

The American pioneering spirit refuses to be cowed down by national boundaries and inflation worries. Coke for example, one of our permanent mainstays at Advantage zyaada clocked another couple of championship points ending 2010 on a high note with an…

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Q3 Round up – Tech Deals stay down | Advantage zyaada

Posted on October 3, 2010 by zyakaira

Image by J€RRY via Flickr For paucity of time, just quoting NYT, but we already said it here before the quarter was over. It is more likely to be Financial Services and Media deals esp in Asia and Africa, as…

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Posted in Amitonomics, Dealbook, Financial Markets, Global, Media, Media and Entertainment, Mergers etc, Retail Lifestyle

Walgreens buys Duane Reade | Advantage Lifestyle

Posted on February 18, 2010 by zyakaira

Walgreens upped its brand investments with a $1.8 billion sales value Duane Reade falling into its lap for a cheap $1.08 billion Walgreen Co. is buying Duane Reade Holdings Inc., operator of a chain of 257 drugstores in the New…

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Posted in Private Equity, Retail Lifestyle

Will the French dominate post crisis?

Posted on September 30, 2009 by zyakaira

The French BNP and the Barclays’ have definitely come out on top post-crisis and given parochial attitudes in both nations, their governments are likely to plan making heavy weather on the bad financial markets industry..but I wouldn’t say these repayments…

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