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What exactly is an emerging market anyway?

Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron speaks to India's Trade Minister Anand Sharma during their meeting at number 10 Downing Street in London
Some of the so-called emerging markets have advanced to a point where they might be considered “developed” -- or not, depending on one’s views and criteria. Further complicating this picture is the arrival of “frontier” markets – countries even less developed than the emerging markets, but boasting even greater long-term growth potential.
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Sat Phones: Why Can't The Business Work?

Satellite phones aren't as clunky as they once were, and technology has made them more powerful. Yet so far few have made the business work
China rate changes in 2010, and market reaction

PRECIOUS ROUNDUP - Off highs on Chinese policy action; gold falls least

Precious metals fell across the board in the week to December 10 as a cooling China weighed on demand hopes but the yellow metal remained better alternative in the group amid lingering worries over the euro-zone debt and dollar's ability to play safe-haven.
An investor monitors stock market activities at the Doha securities market

Ireland may seek to sell troubled banks to Middle East investors

An Irish delegation led by former prime minister John Bruton has travelled to the Middle East, gauging the interest of Arab investors, including sovereign wealth funds, in buying some troubled Irish banks, as the Dublin government seeks foreign investors for financial investment.
India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh attends the Indian labor conference in New Delhi November 23, 2010

India, EU announce breakthrough in FTA talks

India and the European Union announced a breakthrough in their free trade talks on Friday. European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said the free trade agreement (FTA) could be signed in 2011, after a meeting with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at the 11th EU-India summit in Brussels.
France's President Nicolas Sarkozy speaks with Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron at the NATO summit in Lisbon

Opinion: Europe's Latest Civil War Has Begun

A war is now raging in Europe. On one side are the forces of the corporate state led by Germany and France; on the other are the forces of free-market capitalism led by Britain.
An employee walks in front of shelves with newly made shoes at a leather shoe factory in Hefei, Anhui province - file photo

Chinese products attract most anti-dumping measures worldwide: WTO

China was the subject of most number of anti-dumping investigations in the first half of the year, and products exported from China attracted the highest number of anti-dumping measures by other countries, the World Trade Organization (WTO) has said in a report.
Ireland's Prime Minister Brian Cowen (R) speaks during a news conference, with Finance Minister Brian Lenihan, in Government Buildings, Dublin November 24, 2010.

Ireland presents austerity budget to meet terms of EU/IMF bailout

The Irish government has presented what is likely the toughest austerity budget in its history, comprising spending cuts of 6-billion euros ($8-billion) and an increase in taxes, in addition to other measures already outlines last month in the so-called “National Recovery Plan.”
View of a 2 Euro coin which commemorates the 70th anniversary of General Charles de Gaulle's call for resistance by the French citizens, is seen at the "Monnaie de Paris" factory in Pessac

Euro collapse a “possibility”: UK economist

The euro currency might not survive the current sovereign debt crisis and may be in danger of collapse, according to Stephen Nickell, an economist at the independent Office of Budget Responsibility (OBR) member and former Bank of England member.
Dominique Strauss-Kahn

IMF urges EU to increase rescue fund

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is urging the European Union (EU) to expand the size of its rescue fund in the wake of weakening market performance in the euro zone’s peripheral members.
Large euro sign installation is seen in front of the European Central bank headquarters in Frankfurt

'Euro can be saved if PIGS bow out'

The crisis-hit peripheral countries have more of a 'solvency problem' than a liquidity problem and their public finances cannot be brought to order without leading to a deep and prolonged recession, as long as they are part of the eurozone, analysts have said.
FIFA president Sepp Blatter (L) hands over a copy of the World Cup to Russia's Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov after the announcement that Russia is going to be host nation for the FIFA World Cup 2018, in Zurich December 2, 2010.

Russia mulls scrapping visas for fans for 2018 World Cup

Football fans needs not worry about securing visas ahead of the 2018 World Cup in Russia as Moscow is planning to scrap the requirement all together for match ticket-holders as well as footballers from the European Union.

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