Emerging Markets
U.S. Audit Regulator Reaches Deal With China On Document Access
U.S. regulators will get access to Chinese companies' audit documents under a deal announced on Friday, opening the way to probes of bungled audits after a two-year stand-off between China and the ...Zurich Insurance Plans China, Saudi Expansion
Zurich Insurance Group AG plans to expand in China and Saudi Arabia as the insurer seeks to capitalize on economic growth in the world's second-biggest economy and largest oil exporter. Switzerland's ...
U.S. Needs Stronger Action Against Trade Secret Theft by China: Commission
Theft of trade secrets, chiefly by China, costs the U.S. economy $300 billion a year and must be fought with sanctions as tough as those used against terrorism and drug trafficking, an advisory panel ...
AIG to Invest $92.5M in China P/C Insurer
American International Group Inc. (AIG), which sold much of its stake in the Asian insurer AIA Group several years ago to help pay back the federal government for its bailout, is moving to reinvest ...
China Offers India a ‘Handshake Across the Himalayas’ to Ease Border Tension
India and China will study new ways to ease tensions on their ill-defined border after an army standoff in the Himalayas, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said on Monday on his first official foreign trip. ...
Investment in Developing Countries to Triple by 2030: World Bank
The percentage of global investment that goes to developing countries should triple in the next two decades as emerging economies catch up to richer nations and become more integrated into financial ...
Emerging Markets Stoking Insurance Growth: Munich Re
Emerging markets will see the highest growth in premiums for insurance companies this year and next, while Europe lags, according to the world's biggest reinsurer, Munich Re. In a study published on ...
WHO Says New Bird Flu Strain Is ‘One of Most Lethal’ Viruses
A new strain of bird flu that has killed 22 people in China is "one of the most lethal" of its kind and is more easily transmissible to humans than an earlier strain that has killed hundreds around ...