Daniel Bases

Position: Correspondent
I'm a New York-based global investment correspondent with 17 years of experience covering financial markets, business and diplomatic news, the last 12 with Reuters. My current post lets me roam across all asset classes and geography, from the developed to the emerging markets. I've reported from Asia, Europe, Latin America and the United States. Prior to joining Reuters I was a producer at CNN Business News in New York.

Articles

PepsiCo to invest $100 million in Egypt in 2010 November 19, 09:02pm EST 

NEW YORK, Nov 19 (Reuters) - U.S. soft drinks and snacks maker PepsiCo Inc <PEP.N> plans to invest $100 million in Egypt next year, a senior company official said in a speech on Thursday.  Full Article 

Blog Posts

Can France accept a food and wine critique from America?

It was bad economics, an overbearing state bureaucracy and the tyranny of a restaurant guide that contributed to driving France's famous food and wine culture into the ground  Full Article | Comments [1] 

Standard Chartered: Far from declaring victory over crisis

The global financial crisis has loosened but there is still a lot of work to be done to fix the damage, according to Peter Sands, CEO of Standard Chartered Bank.  Full Article 

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Not quite 99 emerging market beers on the wall

Should emerging market investors set aside their spreadsheets and crack open a cold one? Their markets have zoomed higher from March lows, with MSCI's emerging markets stock index up 81 percent. Will they all be crying in their beer? And if so what kind?  Full Article