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While positive results in Novartis' Alcon and growing sales of new products Cosentyx and Entresto will boost investor confidence in the Swiss drugmaker, generic competition to Novartis' blockbuster Gleevec and pricing pressures on generic medicines in the US will continue to hurt company revenues in 2017. The impact of generic competition on sales

Crown Castle's acquisition of Lightower aims to improve the company's small cells offer by increasing its fibre backhaul. As data rates need to be higher and more consistent, it will be crucial for operators to use fibre as their main backhaul technology, as well as being flexible to combine different types of networks to offer the best service

BMI View : The robust speed of growth in income levels in Cambodia will not be enough to push consumers into the new car market as high prices on these vehicles remain a significant barrier. We therefore expect Cambodians to continue to depend on the used car market as an entry point towards vehicle ownership.

We believe that a rise in income

Qubit will be moderately successful in its expansion across Latin America. Its range of locally-relevant content and low cost will be the main factors for success in competing with traditional pay-TV offers, whose services are much more expensive for the consumer.

Qubit, an Argentine video-on-demand (VOD) service, is planning to expand to the rest

CCCC is one of the most diversified construction firms in China allowing it to capitalise not only on growth in the road, rail and water sectors which we expect to outperform domestically as the wider industry slows, but also enabling it to tap fast-growing international markets in Asia and Africa.

Geographic and sector diversification will

Walmart faces ongoing challenges in its international operations. We review the company's shifting strategy in China, the ongoing risks in Latin America and the potential for Walmart to expand in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Walmart's international operations accounted for 24.1% of sales and reached USD116.1bn in FY2016. Walmart has seen this percentage

An improving outlook for Moroccan exporters, amid rising phosphate production and a positive economic momentum in the eurozone, will be mitigated by rising energy imports as oil prices recover. Strong foreign direct investment flows, remittances and rising foreign reserves over the past few years will ensure the country's capacity to finance its

Mauritius's pursuit of Chinese investment and a place on the 'Maritime Silk Road' will bolster inward investment and may help mitigate some of the effects of significant economic headwinds from traditional trading partners in the coming years. The process will also see a boost in grants from China's strategic rival (and Mauritius' long-time ally)

BMI View: The immediate impact from the EU-Japan FTA Political Level Agreement signed on July 6 this the political benefits to each side. Specifically, the agreement enables Japan and the EU to head into the G20 meeting with a tangible commitment to free trade creating a counter-weight to the US' more interventionist stance. Looking at long-term

Sub-Saharan Africa's (SSA) mining sector will continue to face a more challenging operational environment relative to miners in Asia and the Americas. More notably, we expect the region's largest producer, South Africa, to witness a contraction in terms of mining sector over the coming years as the political and regulatory situation on the ground