After all, before the Crisis those who ran Indonesia gorged at tables heaped with private foreign capital.
Price-wise, Alex Thorndike, senior trader for precious metals and foreign exchange with MKS Capital, said PGMs, particularly palladium, are still gaining ground from the projected supply deficit announced by Johnson Matthey last month.
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Another policy Republicans are fighting for is allowing corporations with foreign subsidiaries to repatriate capital back to the U.S. at a one-time tax rate of 5.25% (on income already taxed once in the country of origin) instead of having to pay a charge as high as 35% today.
Al-Bashir met Tuesday with the Ethiopian foreign minister in the capital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia's information ministry said.
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India is financing its current-account deficit with volatile foreign fund inflows into the capital markets rather than foreign direct investment, which is a matter of concern, Mr. Subbarao said at an event in Mumbai.
It is unlikely that there will be a large-scale flight of capital, since foreign investors with a long-term horizon seem bullish.
The eagerness to attract foreign capital to the project fits with the desperate need for Russia to boost its credibility with international business.
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But financial liberalisation is risky, and it therefore makes sense for economies with dodgy financial systems to open up to foreign capital more cautiously.
The strategy AIG dreamed up involved trading derivatives with the aim of generating capital losses and foreign tax credits for large corporations, which then used them to try to lower their U.S. tax bills.
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India's growth model has been to run a small current-account deficit, financed with high-quality capital inflows, such as foreign direct investment and equity purchases.
The chancellor is resisting, because he fears British banks would be put at an unfair disadvantage compared with foreign banks able to lend more relative to their capital.
Bachus and Kucinich introduced a bill to create a new Office of National Security within the SEC which merely would report the names of firms affiliated with foreign governments and seeking to enter U.S. capital markets.
But at the same time Sudan's president, Omar al-Bashir, at a meeting in his capital, Khartoum, with France's new foreign minister, Bernard Kouchner, insisted that only Africans should be deployed.
With benefit comes responsibility, though, and as the flow of foreign capital accelerated, valuations in many asset classes sky-rocketed.
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He went to New York to hobnob with American capital, while the government announced special tax breaks for foreign companies that set up their regional headquarters in Thailand.
But with output declining, Pemex hopes to find some way to bring in foreign capital and expertise.
She said that developing countries needed to respond by beefing up bank supervision, restricting credit to fast-growing areas, imposing capital requirements that changed with the economic cycle and monitoring their foreign exchange exposures.
High capital requirements may prompt foreign firms to choose their local partners with extra care.
The new law will force banks to conform to new capital standards, and the FDIC and other regulators are working with foreign regulators to coordinate standards.
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Until recently, property prices in Mumbai were on par with Manhattan's, boosted by scores of foreign firms coming into the financial capital, looking to set up shop here.
Foreign-based venture capital firms have almost no presence in Japan, with the exception of DCM Capital and a smattering of other firms.
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For its part, the Securities and Exchange Commission has yet to demand adequate disclosure with respect to where foreign firms seeking to raise funds in the U.S. capital markets -- to say nothing of their parent companies, subsidiaries or affiliates -- do business in the world and with whom.
Even if they are sometimes worth attempting, capital controls clearly impose costs on foreign investors, and are best combined with apologies rather than insults.
Foreign ministers of the 10-nation bloc are meeting in the Cambodian capital with counterparts from the region including China, and Mrs Clinton and European Union representative Catherine Ashton.
Such an exercise should quickly establish the need for improved reporting and disclosure requirements with respect to all foreign government-controlled entities seeking to enter the U.S. capital markets.
One of the largest is how it will dismantle the capital controls it imposed in 2008 to prevent foreign creditors departing the country with a large chunk of Iceland's GDP.
There are about 18, 000 US-led foreign troops in Afghanistan tracking al-Qaeda and Taleban militants, with security patchy outside the capital Kabul.
Also on Monday, UK Foreign Secretary William Hague arrived in the Malian capital, Bamako, to hold talks with the Malian government and commanders of the African-led intervention force.
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