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The world’s biggest Trade Agreement (TPP) is concluded, which is the next trade deal you need to know
October 15th, 2015
RCEP: The next trade deal you need to know about The conclusion of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement last week could speed up talks on its lesser-known Asia-wide equivalent, trade analysts say. Negotiators working on the Regional Comprehensive ...
Brent Trades Near One-Week Low as China’s Crude Imports Decline
September 8th, 2015
China’s crude imports drop 13.4% from record in July Russia said to rule out cooperating with OPEC to cut supply Brent crude traded near the lowest price in more than a week as a slide in China’s oil ...
Bookkeepers Worldwide will be educated by Sage under Global Partnership
August 3rd, 2015
Sage Announces Global Partnership with the Institute of Certified Bookkeepers to Educate, Empower and Inspire Bookkeepers Worldwide Sage, a leading provider of business management software and services to Small & Medium Businesses, announces that it is joining forces with ...
WTO members seal trillion-dollar IT trade deal
July 24th, 2015
World Trade Organization (WTO) members finalized a deal on Friday to cut tariffs on $1 trillion worth of information technology products in a boost for producers of goods ranging from video games to medical equipment. The agreement to update ...
EU, US trade negotiators get an earful from critics
April 24th, 2015
Opponents of controversial US-EU trade talks came out swinging at a public comment period Thursday, arguing the emerging agreement was a bad deal for consumers and the environment. Critics of the proposed Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) included ...
Bitcoin finds a place among the world’s elite
January 22nd, 2015
More famous for being a renegade alternative to a world currency, bitcoin has managed to find a more prominent role among the global elite at the World Economic Forum in Davos. The Alpine resort plays host to a slew ...
World Economic Outlook (WEO) UPDATE
January 20th, 2015
Cross Currents Global growth will receive a boost from lower oil prices, which reflect to an important extent higher supply. But this boost is projected to be more than offset by negative factors, including investment weakness as adjustment ...
World Bank: Bitcoin is not a “Ponzi Scheme”
November 19th, 2014
Ponzi scheme: A fraudulent investment operation where the operator, an individual or organization, pays returns to its investors from new capital paid to the operators by new investors, rather than from profit earned by the operator. Many of the ...
US-China press forward on expanding high-tech trade agreement
November 11th, 2014
President Obama said Monday night that the U.S. and China are nearing a final agreement on expanding a major technology pact. Obama said that the world’s two largest economies would work toward including a broader scope of goods covered ...
WTO rules for U.S. in India trade dispute
October 15th, 2014
A World Trade Organization ruling Tuesday could help U.S. farmers increase exports to India. India violated numerous trade rules when it banned imports of American poultry, meat, eggs and live pigs, the World Trade Organization ruled Tuesday in a ...
