Provides the latest RSS feeds for Emerging Markets News. For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Greek Herald.com http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/cat/fedbf3ef527e1c20/ en-us Tue, 21 May 2013 19:34:25 -0400 Tue, 21 May 2013 19:34:25 -0400 30 Chinese State-controlled insurer PICC Property and Casualty Co Ltd (PICC P&C) is raising 5.76 billion yuan ($938 million) to bolster capital, expecting strong growth and amid signs that profitability of Chinese insurers are coming under pressure.China's property and casualty insurance market is expanding between 10 to 15 percent annually, making it the fastest growing in the world. That ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214669817/scat/fedbf3ef527e1c20 Tue, 21 May 2013 15:51:25 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214669817/scat/fedbf3ef527e1c20 NBC hack serves Citadel malware to visitors NBC has become the latest high-profile target for a cyber-attack, with its website, NBC.com, becoming compromised by the Citadel financial malware kit long enough to start serving malware to visitors before being ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214670459/scat/fedbf3ef527e1c20 Tue, 21 May 2013 15:50:24 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214670459/scat/fedbf3ef527e1c20 London - South African and Turkish equities outperformed both emerging market and global share indices on Tuesday, with Johannesburg's main index hitting a record high as the rand fell more against the ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214665704/scat/fedbf3ef527e1c20 Tue, 21 May 2013 13:18:21 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214665704/scat/fedbf3ef527e1c20 By Sophie Sassard LONDON | Tue May 21, 2013 12:54pm EDT LONDON May 21 (Reuters) - VTB Capital is eying more restructuring deals in emerging markets after acquiring debt-laden Bulgarian telecom operator Vivacom in 2012, a senior executive said on Tuesday. "We are using the Vivacom example and market it very proactively to find new opportunities", Atanas Bostandjiev, chief ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214668932/scat/fedbf3ef527e1c20 Tue, 21 May 2013 12:54:01 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214668932/scat/fedbf3ef527e1c20 By Danielle Assalve SAO PAULO, May 21 (Reuters) - Mexico's benchmark stock index sold off for a second consecutive session on Tuesday, on track to close at its worst level in nearly eight months, while Brazilian stocks slipped as investors cautiously awaited guidance on the future of U.S. monetary stimulus. Investors unloaded Mexican shares following weaker-than-expected growth data last week ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214665857/scat/fedbf3ef527e1c20 Tue, 21 May 2013 11:36:46 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214665857/scat/fedbf3ef527e1c20 Forex Magnates launches Eastern Europe forex country reports: Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Estonia, Czech Republic, ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214660663/scat/fedbf3ef527e1c20 Tue, 21 May 2013 08:20:34 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214660663/scat/fedbf3ef527e1c20 SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Tuesday is shaping up to be a big day for retail earnings, with Best Buy Co., Home Depot Inc. and Saks Inc. scheduled to release quarterly ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214658403/scat/fedbf3ef527e1c20 Tue, 21 May 2013 06:26:16 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214658403/scat/fedbf3ef527e1c20 The sovereign wealth funds of Qatar, Norway and Azerbaijan will each get about $500m of the new shares being issued by VTB, the Russian bank's chief executive Andrei Kostin said on Tuesday.The $500m allocation is the "kind of ticket we are thinking of" Kostin told Reuters in London. The allocations will give the investors more than half the new shares being sold in VTB's ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214658478/scat/fedbf3ef527e1c20 Tue, 21 May 2013 05:58:53 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214658478/scat/fedbf3ef527e1c20 ...the Hungarian forint continues in its rally Yesterday, the Czech koruna hit its 3-years low when it weakens to 26.18 EUR/CZK. The koruna was already hit last Wednesday by worse-than-expected GDP figures and thenceforth lost more than 1%. The sell-off of the Czech currency has continued even this week. There might have been several other factors behind the weakening of the Czech currency. Some ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214658172/scat/fedbf3ef527e1c20 Tue, 21 May 2013 04:57:06 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214658172/scat/fedbf3ef527e1c20 The S&P BSE Sensex opened on a flattish note on Tuesday in absence of supportive cues from global peers and lack of buying after the recent ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214656351/scat/fedbf3ef527e1c20 Tue, 21 May 2013 02:42:10 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214656351/scat/fedbf3ef527e1c20 China's growing surplus in trade with India, an issue of concern to New Delhi, is difficult to resolve and is likely to widen, Chinese experts said. The trade imbalance has come up during the current India visit by Chinese Premier Li Keqiang. Trade between India and China is one of the fastest growing, although the two Asian neighbors have longstanding border disputes that resulted in a ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214655963/scat/fedbf3ef527e1c20 Tue, 21 May 2013 02:37:26 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214655963/scat/fedbf3ef527e1c20 BANGKOK, May 21 (Reuters) - Thailand's main SET index was nearly unchanged at 1,643.87, a near 19-1/2 year high, at 0440 GMT amid selling in recent gainers such as telecoms and banks, but strong oil prices lured buyers to laggard energy shares. Selective buying in large-cap energy stocks such as PTT Pcl and PTT Global Chemical Pcl would help underpin market sentiment, analyst Kasamapon ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214654918/scat/fedbf3ef527e1c20 Tue, 21 May 2013 00:53:15 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214654918/scat/fedbf3ef527e1c20 /enpproperty--> A total of 435 contracts were signed at the eighth Central China Expo, yielding an investment value of 446.9 billion yuan ($72.7 billion), nearly triple that of last year's event, according to the expo's organizing committee on Monday. Investment mainly eyes emerging ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214653216/scat/fedbf3ef527e1c20 Mon, 20 May 2013 23:51:09 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214653216/scat/fedbf3ef527e1c20 MEXICO CITY | Mon May 20, 2013 1:54pm EDT MEXICO CITY May 20 (Reuters) - Mexican stocks slumped on Monday to a six month low, hit by concerns that local stocks were too expensive after weaker than expected growth data on Friday dampened the economic outlook for 2013. The IPC stock index sank more than 2 percent to 40,934 points, a low not seen since November ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214640233/scat/fedbf3ef527e1c20 Mon, 20 May 2013 13:54:47 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214640233/scat/fedbf3ef527e1c20 (MENAFN - Qatar News Agency) The Chinese currency Renminbi, or the yuan, weakened 1 basis point to 6.1998 against the US dollar on Monday, the China Foreign Exchange Trading System reported. In China's foreign exchange spot market, the yuan is allowed to rise or fall by 1% from the central parity rate each trading day, according to (Xinhua) News Agency. The central parity rate of the yuan ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214637491/scat/fedbf3ef527e1c20 Mon, 20 May 2013 12:47:11 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214637491/scat/fedbf3ef527e1c20