Both investors and publicly traded firms are operating in increasingly integrated global capital markets.

Witness the surge in capital flows to emerging markets as investors chase higher financial returns.

Judging by low stock prices and high capital outflows, investors were already betting against high growth rates.

SKS raised more equity from investors such as Sequoia and Odyssey Capital, before going public on the Indian stock exchange in 2010, raising about 358 million at a valuation exceeding 1.6 billion. Impact investors support eventually led to flows of commercial capital both VC funding and IPO investors into Compartamos, SKS, and many other microfinance institutions.

Italy, too, is being drained of capital in fact, the flight of investors accelerated after the ECB s liquidity injection.

Effective financial markets enable them to pursue such opportunities despite these constraints by enlisting investors to provide the capital.

Freer capital flows will give poor countries precisely this access, as the greed of investors in rich country leads them to venture into poor regions where capital is scarce.

Africa s growth potential has caught the attention of foreign investors, who have contributed to a rapid increase in capital expenditure.

Such incentives are targeted at foreign investors and the local elite, with the aim of stopping or even reversing capital flight.

Both activities, after all, are financed by investors looking for returns on their capital and motivated more by profit than compassion.

At the same time, the qualified foreign institutional investors (QFII) scheme allowed licensed foreign entities to invest in domestic capital markets.

A reluctance of foreign investors to keep accumulating dollar assets will cause a smaller capital inflow from the rest of the world.

Fearing a weaker peso, spooked investors demand dollars. Capital is flowing out of the country, and official reserves are slowly being depleted.

Of course, economies that depend on foreign investment are bound to be hurt nowadays, because those investors have less capital to invest.

Because China is still enforcing capital controls, it is not easy for foreign investors to put their money into the CNY market.

The participation of foreign investors in these markets means that the risks of sudden reversals of foreign capital inflows is not eliminated.

The Volkswagen law also deters private investors from acquiring shares in the company, despite the principle of free capital mobility within the EU.

It provided a surplus of yield seeking capital from investors in developed countries, thereby allowing emerging economies to remain on high growth trajectories.

If money market funds had to maintain capital reserves, industry representatives argued, yields to investors would decline and the industry s profits would suffer.

But how much public capital should be used, and on what terms? Private capital, of course, is preferable, but, given the risk that it will be wiped out by future public intervention, investors will be wary.

In issuing contingent capital, banks would have to pay a higher interest rate than they would on ordinary long term debt, because debt investors will face the true cost of capital, not the government subsidized cost.

Real exchange rates may also appreciate because of increases in capital inflows, which reflect foreign investors enthusiasm for the prospects of the country in question.

Nevertheless, private equity continues to be a large and active asset class and the private equity firms, with hundreds of billions of dollars of committed capital from investors are looking to deploy capital in new and different transactions.

Because rapid fiscal deterioration now has investors worrying about capital losses on US government securities, devaluation would make foreigners more hesitant to finance America s budget deficit.

But recipient economies are vulnerable to financial market sentiment and sudden capital flight as happened recently when investors anticipated monetary policy tightening in the United States.

But when a currency s appreciation is triggered by capital inflows that represent the asset diversification preferences of advanced economy investors, it can and should be resisted.

Institutional investors, such as pension funds and life insurance companies, with more than 70 trillion in assets, are a major additional source of long term capital.

Investors willingness to make capital available over the longer term for infrastructure development, job creation, and economic growth depends on their perceptions of various kinds of risk.

In a liberalized capital market, the undiminished risk that the yuan might appreciate means that investors must be compensated by a higher interest rate on dollar assets.

This form of financing is often used by private equity investors to reduce the amount of equity capital required to finance a leveraged buyout or major expansion.

Slow Money Slow Money is a movement to organize investors and donors to steer new sources of capital to small food enterprises, organic farms, and local food systems.

Otherwise, why would investors and speculators cry bloody murder whenever capital controls are mentioned as a possibility? If they really couldn t care less, then they shouldn t care at all.

In 2001, 72 of institutional investors and 74 of individual investors chose increase. By May 2007, only 48 of institutional investors and 59 of individual investors chose increase.

What the world wanted was an accurate picture of what the banks were worth and mark to market valuations to guide investors as to how much new capital they needed.

Because it is traded in developed and liquid markets that have no capital account restrictions, many investors have bought or sold it according to their view of China s economic prospects.

If European banks had enough capital, a reduction in the value of Greek and other debt would reduce shareholder equity and disappoint investors, but it would not cause a banking crisis.

But doesn t the banks ability to raise new equity capital indicate that, regardless of whether the stress tests are reliable, investors believe that their assets value does significantly exceed their liabilities?

While firms and investors take the funds, private financing for commercial alternative energy projects is widely available an immense number of venture capital funds worldwide are devoted to alternative and clean energy.

Unwisely, Chen went out of his way to shut out mainland Chinese capital and to retain barriers to other foreign investors in order to protect the domestic businesses of his political allies.

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As a result of the SEC s inaction, money market funds will continue to operate outside the scope of bank style rules on capital and reserves, even though investors treat them like bank accounts.

These countries have opened their markets to foreign investors and foreign investors are responding eagerly.

The key is to reflect on six kinds of capital goods business capital, infrastructure, human capital, intellectual capital, natural capital, and social capital.

In a country with one of the worst histories of economic crisis and volatility, fears of a new meltdown are growing, and investors have been dollarizing their portfolios in order to protect their capital.

When was the last time that happened? Chronic debt crisis countries from Mexico to Russia to South Korea are all fighting off capital inflows from investors looking for an exit as the dollar collapses.