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IMF:Weak Pickup in Global Growth, with Risks Pivoting to Emerging Markets
January 19th, 2016
Global growth forecast revised down—3.4 percent in 2016 and 3.6 percent in 2017 Emerging market and developing economies facing increased challenges Key risks relate to China slowdown, stronger dollar, geopolitical tensions, renewed global risk aversion The pickup in global ...
Digital Technologies: Huge Development Potential Remains Out of Sight for the Four Billion Who Lack Internet Access
January 14th, 2016
A new World Bank report says that while the internet, mobile phones and other digital technologies are spreading rapidly throughout the developing world, the anticipated digital dividends of higher growth, more jobs, and better public services have fallen short ...
Multipolarity: The Next Step After Globalization?
January 14th, 2016
The world economy during the last few decades has experienced “globalization,” a broad and admittedly vague term which refers among other factors to a rise in the ratio of world exports to world GDP, as well as the pattern ...
Barclays partners with SWIFT to enhance service quality for corporate clients
January 13th, 2016
Barclays selects SWIFT India to reduce complexity and risk for its corporate clients SWIFT India announced today that Barclays has selected it as a channel for payments, cash management, trade finance and treasury transactions for their corporate customers. Eleven ...
More foreign institutions allowed on China’s forex market
January 13th, 2016
China’s central bank allowed more overseas central banks and similar institutions to enter the country’s inter-bank foreign exchange market on Tuesday. Seven such institutions completed registration with the China Foreign Exchange Trading System, which signaled their official access to ...
Asia markets close lower, Nikkei 225 slips 2.71%
January 12th, 2016
Asia’s major markets closed mostly lower, with investor sentiment in the region remaining fragile as oil prices continued to slide and China concerns weighed. The Australian market erased its morning gains to slip into negative territory, with the main ASX ...
Worldwide Regulated Open-ended Fund Assets and Flows
January 11th, 2016
Important decline in net assets and net sales of worldwide investment fund assets in Q3 The European Fund and Asset Management Association (EFAMA), has released its latest international statistical release containing the worldwide investment fund industry results for the third quarter ...
PwC economists reveal predictions for 2016
January 11th, 2016
G7 to grow at fastest rate since 2010, led by US and UK Geopolitics (rather than economics) will top policymakers’ agendas Commodity prices will remain lower for longer End of the Eurozone crisis African population to rise in 2016 ...
Gold in 2016
January 8th, 2016
Advance signs of a global slump in economic activity emerged in 2015. Furthermore, the dollar’s strength, coupled with widening credit spreads confirms a global tendency for dollar-denominated debt to contract. These developments typically precede an economic and financial crisis ...
China to be Iran’s top partner in 2016
January 7th, 2016
The expected removal of the nuclear deal opens up new opportunities for Iran. Though the sanctions haven’t lifted yet, many countries and their respective companies have lined up to gain more advantage from the renewal or restoration of economic ...
