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Steep Sell-Off Spreads Fear to Wall Street
October 16th, 2014
Dizzied by the turmoil, Wall Street experts agreed on one thing: The jarring day showed that fear had finally returned to markets that had become disconcertingly complacent. Waves of nervous selling buffeted the stock market in the United States ...
Multiple companies to launch on Qatar Exchange
October 16th, 2014
Multiple companies are preparing to launch initial public offers on the Qatar Exchange in the coming months, the CEO of the bourse has reported. Rashid bin Ali Al Mansoori told the exchange was working with the companies to complete ...
China’s inflation rate slows to near five-year low
October 15th, 2014
The inflation rate in China slowed more than expected in September to a near five-year low, adding to concerns that global growth is cooling. China’s inflation rate slowed more than expected in September to a near five-year low, adding ...
Calculating the Grim Economic Costs of Ebola Outbreak
October 14th, 2014
The topic everyone on Wall Street is discussing urgently but quietly isn’t the volatile global stock market. It is Ebola. While thousands of health care workers seek to control the deadly virus in West Africa, and the Centers for ...
Five reasons oil prices are dropping
October 14th, 2014
As oil prices continue to fall, analysts and producers are trying to wrap their heads around the reasons and identify a floor price. Even though crude benchmarks like Brent and WTI keep dropping, the cost of finding oil continues ...
The Age of Vulnerability
October 13th, 2014
Two new studies show, once again, the magnitude of the inequality problem plaguing the United States. The first, the US Census Bureau’s annual income and poverty report, shows that, despite the economy’s supposed recovery from the Great Recession, ordinary ...
Stocks, oil flounder on growth anxiety, China data little help
October 13th, 2014
Asian stocks stumbled to seven-month lows on Monday, while crude oil prices were pinned near a four-year trough as promising trade numbers out of China failed to cheer a market still worried about faltering global growth. “European equities look ...
Modi seeks to revive India’s ‘zombie factories’, not abandon them
October 13th, 2014
The strange tale of British India Corporation is an example of how political patronage and India’s strict labor laws keep publicly owned companies going long after they are insolvent. Now Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who campaigned in this year’s ...
I.M.F. warns of Global Financial Risk
October 13th, 2014
Policy makers at a meeting of the International Monetary Fund said that high debt in China and a lack of spending in Europe, among other factors, could provoke a market convulsion. A more immediate concern drew the attention of ...
Financial Education for Entrepreneurs: How to get it right?
October 10th, 2014
Financial education needs a coordinated and integrated approach and to be taught as early as possible. More and better synergies among all players in the financial environment – but not only- are needed, but it is also important to ...