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Canada
Free-trade pacts: Americas big bet
Sacred rice, and a trade treaty, in his hands JAPAN TRIED TO negotiate the first trans-Pacific trade agreement exactly 400 years ago. It sent a robed samurai, Hasekura Tsunenaga, to Europe via Acapulco to request the right to trade directly with New Spain (todays Mexico). Among other things, he needed permission ...
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Polonia
Foreign-currency loans in central Europe: Forint exchange
AT THE time it seemed to make sense. Interest rates were much lower in Switzerland than in central Europe before the financial crisis, so millions of Hungarians, Poles, Romanians and Croats borrowed in Swiss francs to buy houses at home. But in 2008 the forint, zloty and other central European ...
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Canada
Americas economy: The lonely locomotive
THERE is a spring in Americas step these days. A revision released this week raised annualised economic growth in the third quarter to 3.9%; it has averaged more than 4% in the past two quarters. The irrepressible stockmarket keeps hitting new highs, the most recent on November 26th. Job growth ...
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Brasile
New Brazil finance minister sets targets
Appointment of no-nonsense economist expected to stabilise economy
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Abu Dhabi Tourism & Culture Authority plans its largest overseas promotion campaign
Authority to take road show to 34 cities
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Russia
Russias Sberbank hit by weak economy, Ukraine crisis
Analysts see high provisions in Q4
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Australia
Australia mulls tighter foreign property investment rules
Chinese investment is a sensitive issue in Australia where rural politicians have argued against selling valuable farm and mineral land to foreigners
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India
India seeks investments from Arab region in infra sector
India today sought investments from both public and private sector companies in the Arab region in areas such as infrastructure and railways to further boost economic ties between the regions.
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India
India can be a $5 trillion economy in 10-12 years: Jayant Sinha
India's GDP growth, after registering a sub-5% rate in two financial years, grew 5.7% in the first quarter of FY15
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India
Govt investigating black money in Swiss banks entering India via gold import
This year, India has imported 27.7% of the gold exported by Switzerland; in Jan, this was only 15%