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World Economic Forum: Jordan in $12bn investment drive
May 22nd, 2015
Dead Sea // Jordan plans to unveil a multibillion-dollar programme of foreign investment and create thousands of new jobs in the country at the World Economic Forum on the Middle East and North Africa. King Abdullah will formally open the ...
OPEC Struggling To Keep Up The Pace In Oil Price War
May 21st, 2015
Some market watchers, such as Cornerstone Analytics (CA), have consistently stated that the underestimation of demand, coupled with over-estimation of supply, will mask the growing call on OPEC oil in the second half of this year. CA recently noted ...
Japan shares set fresh 15-year high, dollar holds gains after Fed minutes
May 21st, 2015
Japanese shares hit a new 15-year high on Thursday on hopes that its long-moribund economy was finally coming to life, but weak China factory activity capped stock market gains in much of the rest of Asia. The dollar held ...
Is The Whole World Slowing Down?
April 6th, 2015
The stats just keep getting stranger and, if you’re a policymaker or an investor, scarier. According to a (now widely publicized) McKinsey & Co study, instead of deleveraging after the debt-induced crisis of 2008-2009, the world borrowed another $57 trillion. ...
Samaras Says He’d Join Alliance to Keep Greece in Euro
April 2nd, 2015
As Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras struggles to secure a financial bailout to stay in the euro, his chief rival said he’s open to offering a political rescue. Opposition leader Antonis Samaras, who was ousted by Tsipras in January ...
Predicting the Future With Russia’s Economic Nostradamus, Mikhail Dmitriyev
March 19th, 2015
Mikhail Dmitriyev, president of the New Economic Growth consultancy, is often described as “Russia’s top brain.” He studied in Leningrad in the ’80s and took part in economics discussion clubs with the people who transformed Russia into a market economy, including Anatoly Chubais, the architect of Russia’s privatization ...
China Economic Data Weaker Than Expected
March 11th, 2015
Growth in China’s investment, retail sales and factory output all missed forecasts in January and February and fell to multi-year lows, leaving investors with little doubt that the economy is still losing steam and in need of further support ...
China lowers 2015 growth target to around 7%
March 5th, 2015
China targeted economic growth of approximately 7 percent in 2015, lower than the goal of around 7.5 percent in 2014, according to a government work report delivered by Premier Li Keqiang at the parliament’s annual session Thursday. The growth ...
Markets closed as US celebrate Martin Luther King Day
January 19th, 2015
Friday was marked by growing quotes on international stock markets. The Michigan consumer sentiment index in January outstripped forecasts and suddenly reached 98.2 points, renewing its 11-year maximum. All the other American macro-economic data also appeared to be positive. ...
Global Oil: Production, Politics, Price and Pain
December 23rd, 2014
The drop of oil prices in the past six months is all over the headlines with all sorts of opinions about how this is good or bad for economies around the world, consumers and corporations. Like everything there are ...
