International research

Alex MacBeath
Global leader - markets
Grant Thornton International

International Business Report
The International Business Report (IBR) is a unique quarterly survey providing insight into the views of more than 11,000 privately held businesses across 39 economies every year. It offers 19 years of trend data for most European participants and nine years for many non-European economies.

To find out more go to www.internationalbusinessreport.com

Global growth markets guide
Running a market for growth companies is becoming an increasingly competitive business, as well as challenging in the present economic climate. The global growth markets guide reveals that the well established markets, AIM and NASDAQ, remain the best markets on which to raise funds. Both were able to attract large numbers of new listings to buoy their market capitalisation and are much less volatile than their newer rivals, which is reassuring to investors and companies. The report also confirms, at their current level of performance, there are exciting prospects ahead, particularly in the Asia Pacific region. Junior markets in Asia have begun closing the gap and can offer impressive liquidity.

The latest report analyses the performance of the eight largest and most important stock markets in the world competing to list growth company stocks throughout 2007. The guide also compares the performance of the 40 global growth markets competing to list growth company stocks based on their 2007 performance. Insight into key countries such as Brazil, France, Thailand, South Africa, UK and the US is also included.

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