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December 2008

Main

Top stories

The treasury market reaches breaking point

Corporate finance

Why corporate refinancing is next up in the cycle of despair

Credit markets

Mortgage-backed securities – Hands up: who wants to call the bottom of the market?

SSAs lurch into the unknown

Emerging markets

Emerging market banks: In the line of fire

Equity markets

US equity market – Short selling: The naked truth

Islamic finance

Islamic finance: Size will matter in Islamic banking

Islamic finance debate: Prospects and problems of Shariah-compliant finance

Asia's best companies

Best Asian Companies 2009: Cash is king as Asia’s best companies put their money to work

Indonesia

‘I am what I am’: Indonesia’s embattled finance minister speaks out

Asia Pacific

Asia’s bankers stay busy in a meltdown

Africa

Algeria exasperates with lack of consistency

Credit markets news

Bank debt: FDIC covers failure to pay

Infrastructure: Gatwick's terminal congestion

CLOs: Leaving Las Vegas

Infrastructure: Depfa’s woes put Tube improvements on the line

Agency broking: Come back to cash

Credit market round up: Pain in Spain

Credit market round up: A Rasche decision

Credit market round up: Granite crumbles

Foreign exchange news

Electronic FX trading: FXall looks to secure its position

FX and Banking: A bad year to have a good year

FX market round up: Kenan Altunis – Lotto luck

FX market round up: GFI mounts raid on Tokyo

FX market round up: BIS reports robust activity

Equity markets news

Primary markets: Santander finds ethics shorted

Equity derivatives: Volatility trading growth hit by lower liquidity

UK pension funds and equity: Cult of equity RIP

Trading: MTFs on an uncomfortable ride

Equity market round up: Bleak reading, the month in numbers.

Equity market round up: IPO – Hooray for Grand Canyon Education!

Alternative investments news

Alternative investments strategy: High volatility tempts investors

Investment: Long/shorts need rethink

Agriculture: Farmland is the new gold

Financial crisis and hedge funds: Top five report to Congress

AI market round up: Replication products fail to appeal

AI market round up: Morgan’s Asia PB head leaves

AI market round up: Best practice, not standards

Hedge funds news

Hedge funds: Revenge of the CTAs

Hedge funds: Data

Asia news

China: Stimulus splits analysts

Equity trading: Chi-X takes on Tokyo

Malaysia sells itself as good for a bounce-back

Japan: Thierry Porte carries can for Shinsei ills

Asian market round up: Investment banks shake up senior staff

Latin America news

Brazil: Unibanco chooses Itaú

Ecuador: Correa sends defiant message to bondholders

Meirelles confident of Brazil’s resilience

Mexican infrastructure: Funding fogs Farac

Chávez watch: poised to make cuts

Latin America round up: $1bln petrochem boost for Peru

Latin America round up: Japanese banks invest in Chile

EEMEA news

Euro adoption: Crunch makes euro attractive

Middle East: No more easy money in the Gulf

Stock exchanges: Prague makes it a hat-trick for Wiener Börse

Kazakhstan: Government comes to the banks’ rescue

Libya: GFH buys into Libya’s Energy City

EEMEA market round up: EBRD raises investment target

EEMEA market round up: Parex in Baltic banking bail-out

Market leaders

Financial crisis and the housing market: Dodging the issue

Monetary policy: Bernanke needs new weapons

Japan’s banks struggle again

Pension funds: Widening the short-selling blame game

American car manufacturers: The next credit pile-up?

China takes infrastructure road

Bank equity: Beggars can’t be choosers

Citi: How to play a losing hand

Property markets: Dubai wakes up to reality

Commodities: The map of Venezuela starts to change

Covered bond traders find their voice

Columns

Paulson tries to rewrite the record

Abigail with attitude: More zeroes than heroes

Inside Investment: Bring out your dead

Against the Tide: Weak emerging economies will have global feedback

Front End

Back to basics at Citi

Santander slums it in Panama

SG dips into red to ease black mood

FSA benefits from crisis

€2 billion – ¥2 billion: Turning Japanese…

Quotes of the Month

Off the Record

Special focus: Brazil

The 2008 guide to Brazil: Policies in place to weather the financial storms