CAIRO: An Egyptian with the same name as a long-sought senior Al-Qaeda leader was arrested yesterday in Cairo, but he denied any link to the terrorist network and said it was a case of mistaken identity. Two US  officials agreed. Mohammed Ibrahim Makkawi was arrested on his arrival at Cairo airport from Pakistan via Dubai and was taken for questioning, security and airport officials said. The FBI has listed that name on its most-wanted list as an alias for the senior Al-Qaeda leader Read more [...]

PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 28, 2012 -- /PRNewswire/ -- As the debate continues about how best to gain exposure to the emerging markets growth story, last year Aberdeen Asset Management, the world's largest emerging market manager of closed-end funds(1), commissioned Yale University's Martijn Cremers to carry out a study on locally-listed EM affiliates of multinationals. In his study, Cremers found that the share price performance of these listed affiliates was vastly better than that Read more [...]

LONDON | Mon Feb 27, 2012 4:38pm GMT LONDON Feb 27 (Reuters) - Locally listed emerging market affiliates of multinational companies perform better than the average for their local stock markets, as well as for emerging markets and developed markets as a whole, a study revealed on Monday. Investors have in the past few years been attracted to companies with emerging market exposure, and have usually preferred to buy shares in the more liquid parent company, rather Read more [...]