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The article discusses how corporate taxation proposals in India's budget may affect foreign investments in that country. The legislation would create retroactive tax liabilities for international mergers with Indian companies and abolish a tax exemption for foreign investors. The tax proposals are considered as part of a perception among foreign companies that India has become a risky area of operations due to its political attitudes towards foreign investment.

The article focuses on advice for investors related to emerging markets. The author examines how investments in countries outside of the United States can be very rewarding for investors. Stock market indexes in some regions outside of the U.S. are nearly ten percent higher than the U.S. Dow Jones Industrial Average for 2006. The article discusses geopolitical risk and risk mitigation techniques.

The article discusses how political risks multiply when an economic crisis appears to be a chronic problem, focusing on the European Sovereign Debt Crisis, bond yields, and the International Monetary Fund's claim that there is a 40 percent chance that eurozone will slide back into a recession.

The article focuses on high risk stock markets, stating the Russian Trading System Index declined 21 percent in 2014 due to concerns a geopolitical crisis in Ukraine could result in damaging sanctions from Western nations, and mentions the price-earnings ratio of various risky markets including Russia and Greece.

The article focuses on dollar-denominated corporate debt in emerging markets, stating that investors claim these funds are more insulated from political instability compared to government debt, and mentions emerging market businesses sold 376.3 billion dollars in dollar-denominated debt in 2013.

The article discusses how political risks influence investment decisions and valuations on topics including investments in emerging markets, the impact of the 2009 eurozone crisis on investors' attitudes toward credit, and why political risk may be exacerbated by corporate strength.

The article presents information on a meeting between officials from the World Bank, Myanmar President Thein Sein, and Myanmar's opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi on the subject of political risk for foreign investments in Myanmar after reforms as of February 2013.

The article presents tips for investors on how they can use political risks and events to maximize the benefits that they get from their investments.

The article examines unemployment as a lingering risk following the global financial crisis.

The article focuses on the impact of political risk on investments in Russia.

The article offers information on challenges to investing in emerging markets, including political instability, inflation risk and low liquidity in frontier markets.

The article examines the investment risks prevailing in India.

The author comments on the unexpected cut in third-quarter net debt and a one-billion-dollar gain in planned cost savings announced by oil major BP on October 27, 2009. Investors pushed the shares up by 5% as a result. The fact that BP is facing challenges to reach its long-term target of 1% to 2% annual production growth is noted by the author. He asserts that the most exciting prospects of BP have political and engineering risk, and investors can find better value with less risk elsewhere.

The article reports that the social unrest in Greece has raised awareness of the long-term risks of investing in Southern Europe as of December 12, 2008. It reports that government debt management in the region is threatened by a European recession. It also mentions that long-term financing costs in the region are higher than they were in 2007.