Standard & Poor confident on China’s growth

Nov 23, 2015 15:20 pm UTC| Insights & Views

While most remains concerned over weakness in China and many analysts calling for further weakness in the economy, rating agency Standard Poor is broadly confident over Chinas growth engine. The rating agency expects...

Saudi Arabia signals cooperation, doubts persist

Nov 23, 2015 13:53 pm UTC| Insights & Views

Saudi Arabia, finally may be ready to cooperate to bring balance to oil market. In a report released by Saudi Cabinet says that Saudi Arabia is willing to cooperate with OPEC and non-OPEC producers. OPEC members are...

Europe Fallout Series

Paris attacks bring Russia back into the fold

Nov 23, 2015 13:44 pm UTC| Insights & Views

Christopher Read, Professor in Twentieth-Century European History, University of Warwick The full international consequences of Friday 13 November in Paris will take some time to work out but already dramatic changes...

Europe Fallout Series

How does a city mourn?

Nov 23, 2015 13:19 pm UTC| Insights & Views

Gavin Brent Sullivan, Reader in Identity and Resilience In Communities and Organisations, Coventry University The emotional trauma of the November 13 attack in Paris reaches far beyond those whose lives were directly...

Zero-based budgeting: everything old is new again

Nov 23, 2015 13:14 pm UTC| Insights & Views

Cynthia Firey Eakin, Associate Professor of Accounting, University of the Pacific If Im elected president… Im going to institute zero-based budgeting, which assesses every program every year, and eliminates those...

Iran and Venezuela mounting more pressure on crude’s bearish trend

Nov 23, 2015 12:08 pm UTC| Insights & Views

Oil prices are beginning the new week of trading with significant losses. Brent has fallen by 2% to $43.7 per barrel, while WTI has even shed more than 3% to reach $40.6 per barrel. Thus the rise in the WTI price following...

Currency War Series

Hawkish Liikanen turns dovish ahead of ECB December meeting

Nov 23, 2015 11:07 am UTC| Insights & Views Central Banks

European Central Banks (ECB), governing council member and Governor of Finnish Central Bank Erkki Liikanen seem to have transformed himself as a dove heading into much awaited December meeting next week. Finnish...