Economics

"Always take a sweater with you. The best feature of our weather is the air conditioning” – one local businessman gives advice to foreigners coming to Singapore. The first Prime…

The new Holding Alphabet, which includes Google from October 2, 2015, has unveiled the financial results. The corporation’s income, in which, in addition to Google, entered Google Ventures, Google Capital,…

The outflow of capital in China remains a big problem. Many economists point out that there is no confidence in official data, and all other calculations and can not be…

Seven years passed after the peak of the financial crisis, yet the major European banks continue to behave as though they are still in the midst of the financial storm.…

The Central Bank of Ireland will start at the end of the month the process of withdrawal coins of 1 and 2 eurocents from circulation. Starting from October 28, all…

Greek banks Eurobank Ergasias SA and Alpha Bank AE have discussed with creditors the opportunity to exchange their bonds for shares, Bloomberg said citing sources familiar with the situation. The…

Emerging markets are facing not just a market "defeat"; this is the third wave of the global financial crisis, believes Goldman Sachs.

For the first time since the global financial crisis, China’s economic growth is expected to fall below 7 percent as reported in the third quarter performance of the country’s economy

British firm Stanley Gibbons, the world's oldest dealer of stamps and the only such company listed on the London Stock Exchange, this week warned of an expected reduction of the…

Cutting government spending because of the low oil prices, Saudi Arabia has refused procurement of new furniture and cars for officials.

For the past 70 years, the dollar has had superpower in the financial and monetary system of the world. Despite numerous talks about the rise of the yuan and the…

The US, Japan and the 10 countries of the Pacific coast reached a final agreement on a treaty on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (Trans-Pacific Partnership, TPP)on Monday in Atlanta, Georgia, writes…

After five years hectic and negotiations, the Trans-Pacific Partnership was finally finalized and an agreement reached between the countries. In what is evidently the largest trade deal in two decades,

According to The Financial Times, Italy is pressing charges against the rating agencies S&P and Fitch on the fact that they have caused undue damage in the country in 2011…

Prices in premium segment of the London real estate market decreased by 0.4% in the third quarter, according to the estate agency Savills Plc.

The gross value of financial assets of the world's population in 2014 increased by 7.1% and reached a new record - 135.7 trillion euros against 126.8 trillion euros a year…

A poll conducted on 29 economists by news agency Reuters claimed that the official manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) of China for September is forecast to inch down to 49.6

A report from the McKinsey Global Institute states that getting more women into the workforce could give the global economy a significant boost apart from conforming to the moral and

Despite gloomy economic forecasts and a slowdown in global economic activity, the U.S. economy has expanded steadily thanks to steady consumer spending, helped by cheap gas prices and slightly higher…

Global warming continues to be one of the most important topics discussed, although the danger has not yet been fully proved. However, after about 200 years, the melting of permafrost…

A year after the US Treasury started actions against US companies transactions that allow escaping the US tax jurisdiction (tax inversion), local experts see no tangible results. Many US companies…

Everyone is alarmed with the new word ‘diversification’ in Tilbury (one of the three largest container ports in the UK). Less space is allocated to traditional container transportation. Instead, the…

Consumers in Iran are reportedly holding off on purchases of domestic goods and waiting for foreign brands and products to arrive as the country reached a nuclear deal that will

The French Commission for the Information Technology and Human Rights (Commission nationale de l'informatique et des libertes, CNIL), the main body of the country in the field of protection of…

The term "invisible hand" descended from Adam Smith. It means the market mechanism of the economy self-regulation.

The average asking price of UK homes was up by 0.9% to reach £294,834 in the month of September noting a record high for the industry. This was noted in

Investors in real estate market are new supporters of the European Central Bank’s quantitative easing (QE), the experts say.

It is no news that low oil prices have a negative impact on Canadian operators working in the oil sands. However, despite the rather gloomy outlook, production at the field…

Beijing could use his case to expedite the verification of insider trading and further tighten the regulation of the market.

The main part of the gas will be supplied in the form of LNG through Spain.

Goldman Sachs cut its forecast for Brent and WTI crude through 2016 on the expectation that the glut will persist on Opec production growth, resilient non-Opec supply and slowing demand

The agency points to difficulties in carrying out reforms and corruption scandal with Petrobras.

In an environment where the global crude oil prices have more than halved over the last one year, the oil and gas production from Britain’s waters is set to increase

The world could save more than $22 trillion by 2050 if governments in various countries try and expand the public transport system, stress on the building and the use of

There is simply no reasons to fall in the gloomy predictions about the prospects for China's economy, believes the chief economist of the Asian Development Bank Shang Jin Wei.