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Brazil's gross domestic product increased by just 0.6% in the third quarter from the second, despite the stimulus and sharp interest rate cuts

Royal Bank of Canada on Thursday priced its second SEC registered covered bond of the year, a $1.5bn three year deal, through joint leads Citi, RBC Capital Markets and UBS. The transaction took advantage of strong market conditions and a thirst for Canadian exposure unlikely to be quenched until at least the second quarter next year.

The crisis dealt a double blow of deleveraging and falling trade to small eastern European economies, but big countries also suffered

The HSBC flash China manufacturing PMI expanded for the first time in 13 months in November, but the recovery depends on the US “fiscal cliff”

An extension of the US quantitative easing (QE) policy would make investors sell the USD and go into emerging markets, a strategist said

Companies in the US vie to take advantage of the difference between low gas prices and high crude, the CEO of a GTL firm told Emerging Markets

The US is likely to cede the top spot to China in the next three years while India will also surpass the US over the long term, an OECD report said

Even though some assets staged a brief rally after the results of the US election, investors should still tread carefully in emerging markets

A UK company plans to get oil majors such as Russia’s Gazprom to use its technology to turn gas that is usually flared into crude

The risk investors take in the US stock market is very high because of successive rounds of quantitative easing, an analyst says

Countries in CEE, as well as Greece, did the most to improve their business climates over the past year, a World Bank report shows

Preliminary data from the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) show Asian banks quickly replaced Western banks in Asia-Pacific