The capital of Qatar: developments in IR
Emerging markets mean different challenges for different businesses, and the Gulf region – with its booming economies – is only...
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Reporting Archive
Celtic controversy: CFD disclosure in Ireland
IROs use different techniques to keep an eye on their company’s share register. Market intelligence firms, newswires and old...
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M&A roundup: stock exchange consolidation
Set to completeIn the latest tie-up between stock markets, TSX Group, the Canadian exchange that controls the Toronto Stock...
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Speculator: island in the sun
In the old days, a sovereign was a tangible thing, a round, golden item – but German chancellor Angela Merkel has raised the...
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Scrapping mid-quarter updates
The practice of providing regular mid-quarter performance updates, now increasingly shunned by US companies, emerged with a...
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The best way to go: earnings guidance
Q My management team is against giving formal guidance but the board is pressing it to offer more directional guidance. Which side...
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Annual reports: how to target your audience
The challenge when creating an annual report is working out how to make it all things for all people: investors and analysts have...
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Chinese craving for European markets
Booming emerging markets are producing more and more companies keen to IPO – yet local markets often do not have the liquidity...
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Banking on an IPO
Q We are in the middle of our international IPO and our underwriters are urging us to conclude an agreement with one of the...
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Reviewing the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China IPO
When the former state-owned Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) floated in October last year, investors from around the...
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