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Bristol-Myers Squibb's Q117 financial results highlight the importance of the company's core revenue generators, namely Opdivo and Eliquis, in maintaining a robust growth outlook. Impressive revenue gains within the company's immuno-oncology and cardiovascular portfolios will bode well for Bristol-Myers Squibb's outlook for the remainder of 2017

Chinese homebuilders diversifying outside China are naturally seeking opportunities in neighbouring Hong Kong, where they can access good-quality sites and match their US dollar debt to cash flows in Hong Kong dollars, which is pegged to the US currency, Fitch Ratings says. Medium-sized Chinese homebuilders view the high-quality land in Hong Kong

Indonesia's proposal to introduce taxes to clamp down on speculative land purchases and cool land-price increases is a potential threat to developers, many of which own large plots of land, says Fitch Ratings. Although more recently, the government has indicated developers may not be targeted. 

The government says speculative land purchases have

US-Japan security ties will remain robust under President Donald Trump, as both countries focus on co-operation to counter-balance a rising China and increasingly nuclearised North Korea. Washington and Tokyo will still disagree over trade issues, but these disputes will largely be segregated from military ties.

The US-Japan security alliance will

The pharmaceutical and healthcare markets of North Africa will continue to present sizeable commercial opportunities within MENA for international drugmakers. While discrepancies exist at the national level with regard to market attractiveness, when taken as a whole, the region's close proximity to both European and African markets and its

Asian power markets outperform the global risk/reward index, as strong opportunities are balanced against relatively lower risks. Within the region, we highlight Malaysia and Australia as notable investment bright spots. Whereas, smaller power markets which continue to suffer from high operational and industry-specific risks, such as Laos, Cambodia

Emerging market (EM) growth is picking up steam amid more buoyant demand in developed economies, but performance will be highly mixed. In this chartpack, we outline the key themes that we expect to play out across EMs over the coming quarters:

• Commodity exporters (Brazil, Russia, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia) will struggle to recover.

• China and

The most interesting aspect of the sale of Tigo Senegal is the buyer, the Wari Group. It is a digital financial services platform, whose aim is to improve its position in the market by becoming an operator, and targeting Orange and its successful Orange Money service. As such, this deal is the reverse of traditional MFS expansion strategies and

We believe that Snap, which has just filed its IPO, is more likely to be the new Twitter than the new Facebook. Four reasons underpin our view: strong market competition, low prospects for profitability, an unclear business model and weak corporate governance.

Snap has filed an USD3bn Initial Public Offering (IPO), which would make the company

The Balkans region will see rising instability and unrest over the coming years, as a result of ethnic or social tensions in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, and Macedonia, the spectre of Islamic State (IS) gaining a foothold in the region, and the probable weakening of the EU as a policy anchor. Meanwhile, ongoing geopolitical rivalry between