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Estonia
Shipping’s globalisation woes
For sign of how the tectonic plates of the global economy are shifting, look at the Baltic Dry Index
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Francia
Diplomatie culinaire
Les saveurs méditerranéennes s’invitent à FèsPoints: Un festival d’art culinaire organisé en partenariat avec ...
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Cina
China gets $126.3bn FDI in 2015
Beijing: Foreign direct investment into China accelerated in 2015 as cash poured into the country's service sector, official data showed yesterday, despite slowing expansion in the world's second-largest economy.
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India
Govt firm on BS VI by 2020; extremely challenging says auto industry
The government today stood firm on its decision to implement BS VI by 2020 despite the auto industry calling it an 'extremely challenging' task to move up to the stricter emission norms in just four years.
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India
FTA between India and EU will benefit both sides: Germany
The proposed free trade agreement (FTA) between India and the European Union (EU) will benefit both sides and create jobs, trade opportunities as well as facilitate investments, a senior German official said here.
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India
10.5% salary rise expected across industries in 2016: Survey
Salaries are likely to increase by 10.5 per cent across levels and industries this year mainly due to optimistic economic outlook, a survey has said.
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Giappone
Renault searched in emissions probe, says no signs of defeat device
French carmaker Renault said fraud investigators had inspected three of its sites in an emissions probe, news that wiped billions off its market value in an echo of the scandal engulfing German rival Volkswagen. Renault said investigations to date had found “no evidence of a defeat device equipping Renault vehicles”, ...
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Cina Indonesia
Fight or flight
THE past six months have been hard on the reputations of China’s economic managers. Their attempts to bring troublesome stockmarkets to heel border on slapstick. The uncertain handling of the country’s exchange rate, on the other hand, is no laughing matter. Unexpected wobbles in the value of China’s currency roil ...
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Estonia
Picnic for the bears
GLOOM seems to have descended at the start of 2016. Equity markets have had the worst start to the year in at least two decades. The great and the good have queued up to warn of the dangers ahead. George Soros, a fund manager, said the Chinese financial environment reminded him ...
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Armenia Georgia (Country)
From Russia with love
DEBT crises, capital flight and corruption are all familiar problems for poor countries trying to finance their development. A bulwark, say some, is remittances: money sent home by migrants, worth $580 billion in 2014. Unlike portfolio flows, which tend to flee at the first sign of trouble, remittances usually increase ...