Historically Schlumberger has maintained strong margins in the Middle East and Asia market.
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Both carriers are keen for a stake in the Asia Pacific market.
Mitsubishi earns good profits in the rest of Asia, a market that surpassed Japan last year.
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Asia's market turmoil, and its backwash in Latin America and Eastern Europe, have created plenty of new business opportunities.
After all, it was high gearing that drove so many companies onto the rocks when Asia's market hurricane struck.
Though few admit it, almost every country in Asia has a market in which men buy sex from other men.
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Last year, Tiffany, famous for its diamond engagement rings, increased its sales by 29% in its Asia-Pacific market, excluding Japan.
Rafael Soifer, an analyst with Brown Brothers Harriman, reckons that most banks are less exposed to Asia than the market assumes.
Predictably, Asia's market meltdown slashed share trading among Hong Kong company directors.
The Nikkei's 5.8% surge this week the index's best weekly performance since December 2011 makes the market Asia's best performer so far in 2013, up 18.2%.
Last year, they set up the Asia Pacific Loan Market Association, which is working on a standard set of documents to make trading easier.
Economist Fort likens the potential expansion of Major League Baseball to the Asia-Pacific market to its move to the West Coast in the 1950s.
Growth investors will be focused on Asia and emerging market stocks.
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The high-tech industry is most reputable in the Asia-Pacific market.
Mitsubishi, which has more experience than DaimlerChrysler with small cars, should be better at holding down costs, and the alliance should also help to bring the Smart to Asia, a market that may suit it well.
Unfortunately, says Lyle, it is not clear how easy it will be to market T67 in Asia, which is a much less lucrative market than the U.S. Tularik is currently looking for European and Asian partners.
They would rather see looser listing requirements at traditional stock exchanges (as is happening in Singapore), an Asia-wide second market linking many of the smaller exchanges, or even Nasdaq itself extended fully to Asia, with 24-hour trading and local listings.
In Asia, South Korea and Taiwan will probably be the next to have ETFs, and virtually every other stock market in Asia, including those in China, is considering them.
Southeast Asia has become the go-to market for investment banking in Asia, after a year of hot IPOs and multibillion-dollar acquisitions by Thai billionaires.
Southeast Asia has become the go-to market for investment banking in Asia, after a year of hot initial public offerings and multibillion-dollar acquisitions by Thai billionaires.
Sometimes it helps to know the mentality of the market participants in a specialty market like Asia.
Seen as a talent farm as well as a huge, if difficult, market, Asia makes more sense.
That makes China the second-largest market in Asia after Japan (which is still about twice as big).
While much of Asia dallies, one market behaving as if it were in a bull stampede is Japan.
Asia is a big market for jumbos and more than 20 orders have been postponed, if not exactly cancelled.
It would have brought BAE's strong presence in the US together with Airbus' booming business in the growth market of Asia-Pacific.
To take advantage of our complex manufacturing base and to hasten the shift away from Asia, speed to market is critical.
Low-cost carriers now control more than half of Southeast Asia's airline market.
When the dust clears, Asia's retail market may well be transformed, with western multinationals powerful in markets where overextended locals have stumbled.
The United States is also the largest export market for Asia, which has led to more affordable goods and services for American consumers.
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