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Emerging-market stocks fell from a two-week high, led by technology companies, after the European Central Bank left rates unchanged as it assesses Italy’s threat to the economic recovery. Brazilian equities advanced.
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Societe Generale SA ordered employees to cease commentary on Turkey pending a review of new legislation that threatens up to five years imprisonment for certain types of commentary on financial markets.
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Societe Generale SA said it’s resuming commentary on Turkey after reviewing new legislation that threatens up to five years imprisonment for certain types of commentary on financial markets.
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The Tunis airport’s main hall features advertisements for the country’s three cell phone companies and foreign exchange booths from its major banks.
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Pakistan is handing equity investors the world’s best risk-adjusted returns as terrorist attacks, power blackouts and a war with Taliban insurgents fail to curb gains in consumer spending that sent profits to a record high.
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Egypt’s borrowing costs are rising to the highest in more than two years and stocks listed overseas are tumbling as the Cairo exchange’s five-week shutdown and new rules on shareholder disclosure keep investors away.
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Tunisia, the first country to rise up in the so-called Arab Spring, may also become the region’s first new democracy to vote an Islamist party into power.
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Emerging-market companies are increasing bond sales this year at the fastest pace in more than a decade while U.S. and European corporate borrowing slumps as investors shift to debt from the fastest-growing economies.
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Money managers from Mark Mobius to John Burbank are bullish on Saudi Arabia, where stocks are producing the world’s best risk-adjusted gains in 2012 with lower volatility than longer-term U.S. Treasuries.
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When Ashraf Fouad voted in Egypt’s first presidential election since Hosni Mubarak was removed from power, the 46-year-old mechanic took a pragmatic approach.
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