Topic: Emerging Markets

Looking to short the euro? You could buy shares of  Sanofi, the world’s fourth-largest drug company by sales, because of its limited exposure to Europe.

Amr Moussa, one of Egypt’s top presidential candidates, has reiterated his belief in free markets and told CNBC in an interview on Tuesday that the country needed to “open up”.

A preliminary count of votes for Egyptians living abroad has put Islamist candidate Abdul-Moneim Aboul-Fotouh in the lead, followed by left-leaning Hamdeen Sabahi .

The selloff in emerging market currencies over recent months looks set to worsen, according to analysts, who point out India’s rupee, Indonesia’s rupiah, and to some extent, South Korea’s won could face the brunt of the pressure.

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India's inflation accelerated in April to 7.23 percent as price pressures for food, fuel and manufactured items all picked up, adding to the central bank's struggle to control inflation when economic growth has slumped to a near three-year low.

Europe and America have run out of monetary tricks and emerging-market support, leaving their economies on the brink, says Andy Xie.

India delayed by one year the introduction of measures to crack down on tax evasion on Monday, moving to mollify overseas investors whose panic has led to a dramatic exodus of funds and hammered the rupee.

Turkey and Indonesia could be the next economies to reach $1 trillion-status, Ruchir Sharma, author of "Breakout Nations: In Pursuit of the Next Economic Miracles", told CNBC.

With Asia's growth likely to remain strong at 6 percent this year, it may be time for central banks to consider raising interest rates as signs of inflation emerge, according to the International Monetary Fund.

To understand the effect that events have  on global oil markets a key figure to watch is the amount of crude produced daily in each country. With data from the Energy Information Administration (EIA), a division of the Department of Energy, CNBC.com took a look at the countries that produce the most crude oil on that basis. (Production is defined as extraction from the Earth’s crust, prior to the refining process.)

While developed and emerging market stocks have been locked in a neck to neck race so far this year, strategists tell CNBC developed market equities are likely to outperform their Asian peers in 2012.

Philips, the Dutch electronics group, is on track to meet its mid-term targets by 2013, its CEO Frans van Houten told CNBC’s “Squawk Box Europe” Monday, adding however that the European market remained weak.

The amount of money thrown at rescuing the world economy since the Great Recession began is truly staggering, equivalent to roughly $2,000 for every man, woman and child on the planet , but boosting long-term growth still remains a challenge.

Leading world economies on Friday pledged $430 billion in new funding for the International Monetary Fund, more than doubling its lending power in a bid to protect the global economy from the euro-zone debt crisis.