Cheap-Oil Era Tilts Geopolitical Power to U.S.
November 20th, 2014
A new age of abundant and cheap energy supplies is redrawing the world’s geopolitical landscape, weakening and potentially threatening the legitimacy of some governments while enhancing the power of others. Some changes already are evident. Surging U.S. oil production enabled America ...
G-20 Plans $2 Trillion Growth Boost to Uneven Global Economy
November 17th, 2014
Group of 20 leaders agreed to take measures that would boost their economies by a collective $2 trillion by 2018 as they battle patchy growth and the threat of a European recession. Citing risks from financial markets and geopolitical ...
China Stocks Fall on Last Day Before Link Start as Brokers Drop
November 14th, 2014
Chinese stocks fell on the last trading day before the start of the trading link between Hong Kong and Shanghai amid concern recent rallies were excessive. China Communications Construction Co. (601800) and ChinaCAMC Engineering Co. led declines for industrial companies with losses of more than 3 ...
ECB could pump €1tn into eurozone in fresh round of quantitative easing
November 7th, 2014
The European Central Bank is ready to pump up to €1tn (£782bn) of fresh stimulus into the flagging eurozone economy to ward off a dangerous deflationary spiral, Mario Draghi has signalled. Draghi, the ECB’s president, said on Thursday that ...
The Economy Of The Largest Superpower On The Planet Is Collapsing Right Now
November 6th, 2014
How do you fix a superpower with exploding levels of debt, that has a rapidly aging population, that consumes far more wealth than it produces, and that has scores of zombie banks that could collapse at any moment. You ...
Credit Suisse Profit More Than Doubles as Trading Rises
October 23rd, 2014
Credit Suisse Group AG (CSGN), Switzerland’s second-biggest bank, reported an increase in third-quarter profit driven by a surge in revenue at the investment bank, while earnings in other businesses fell. The group’s net income jumped to 1.03 billion Swiss ...
Australia 200 – Trying to Rally Up From 5200
October 8th, 2014
Australia 200 for Wednesday, October 8, 2014 Since the beginning of September the Australia 200 Index has declined strongly from its multi-year high after running into resistance around 5650 back to enter its previously established trading range between 5400 ...
Western sanctions against Russia cut Europe’s throat
October 8th, 2014
Sanctions against Russia have not led to the isolation of the country, even if the West tried to alienate Russia from western markets of capital and technologies. Instead, the sanctions strengthened the ties between Russia and China. Russia will ...
CySec: Risks Associated with Investing in Contingent Convertible Instruments
October 3rd, 2014
The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC) has published an announcement regarding the supervised entities, the stakeholders and the investing public to the statement published by the European Securities Markets Authority (ESMA) titled Potential Risks Associated with Investing in Contingent ...
Contributing Authors
October 2nd, 2014
Dr Alan Waring Dr Alan Waring has 35 years’ experience in risk management. His several books include Managing Risk (1998), co-authored with Prof Ian Glendon, Practical Systems Thinking (1996) and Corporate Risk and Governance published in May 2013. He has presented numerous conference and ...
