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LONDON, May 17- The coveted investment grade rating has arrived in Turkey and foreign capital may follow- possibly a lot of it. An investment grade rating, which Moody's gave Turkey on Thursday, potentially opens Turkey to more conservative funds. "This could bring a whole new investor base to Turkey," says Tim Ash, head of emerging markets research at Standard Bank.
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Ratings agencies. Can't live with 'em, can't live without 'em, these pros say.
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Latin America likes U.S. entertainment, and that means Goldman Sachs continues to like Netflix because it is expanding into that region and the Caribbean.
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The Iraqi government is expected to sign a $12 billion gas deal with Royal Dutch Shell and Mitsubishi Corp on Tuesday, Dow Jones reported.
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On Saturday, South Sudan becomes the world's newest country and Africa's 54th state, a process that follows 50 years of bloodshed. Renewed violence on its borders has shaken hopes of a peaceful transition to nationhood, but the fledgling country is not a failed state in waiting, analysts and senior figures in the reconstruction effort told CNBC.com.
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Bahrain began its highly-anticipated National Dialogue this week in an effort to restore confidence both domestically and internationally that the Kingdom is committed to working through issues that sparked unrest within its borders in mid-February.
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The U.S. needs comprehensive tax reform "so that U.S. corporations, small, medium-size and large, can have a level playing field," Coca-Cola Chairman Muhtar Kent told CNBC Thursday.
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Despite a manufacturing slowdown in Russia, China and Brazil, emerging markets will be key to the recovery of the global economy, Stephen King, chief economist at HSBC told CNBC.
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Higher rates in China, lower ratings in Portugal - time for your daily FX Fix.
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Ahead of large-scale protests planned for this Friday, Egyptian Prime Minister Essam Sharaf stressed that the government respects the right of citizens to demonstrate peacefully.
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Brazil is preparing a range of additional measures to stem the damaging rise of the real as the global currency war shows no signs of ending, according to Guido Mantega, the country’s finance minister, reported the FT.
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The World Trade Organization is stepping up the pressure on China to open the spigot on exports of rare earth minerals, with Jon Hykawy, Byron Capital Markets; Anthony Young, Dahlman Rose Metals & Mining; and Christopher Ecclestone, Hallgarten & Co.
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France's Casino warned archrival Carrefour on Monday that a merger of its Brazil unit and the country's biggest retailer, Grupo Pao de Acucar, could not go ahead without its consent.
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We're in a "slow growth economy and things aren't getting any better" as the second half begins, J.J. Burns, president of J.J. Burns & Co., told CNBC Friday. In this environment, stick with companies specializing in health care, he says.
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The second half of the year should see European stocks performing positively, Michael Browne, portfolio manager, Europe at Martin Currie, told CNBC Friday.
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U.S. companies' stocks can make us lots of money even when our economy is doing poorly, Cramer said.
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Emerging markets have underperformed the S&P 500 during the second quarter, with Ben Pace, Deutsche Bank Private Wealth Management, and Steve Neimeth, SunAmerica Asset Management.
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Strong medicine for Greece will jumpstart aid plans and currency investors' fears will ease, one strategist says.
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With half the world's known reserves of oil and gas sitting in the fields of Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi, Qatar and the rest of the region, not many people think of the Middle East as having problems with energy.
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Gazprom, the Russian gas monopoly, could take advantage of Greece's sovereign debt crisis to strengthen its leading position on European gas supply and counter attempts by the European Union to diversify its energy relationships.
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CNBC's Darren Rovell reports the athletic giant is posting record results, and shows off new products using free technology.