• USA

    Turning the screw

    AS IF being investigated by seven countries wasn’t enough, 1MDB is also flirting with default. Government gumshoes in Switzerland, America and elsewhere are said to be close to mapping the full money trail in a suspected multi-billion-dollar scam centred on the heavily indebted Malaysian state investment fund. As their probes ...

  • Francia

    Trending: blending

    What blended finance hath wrought MEETING the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals will require additional investments of $2.5 trillion a year in things like health care and education for the world’s poorest people, according to UNCTAD, a UN agency. A further $13.5 trillion is needed by 2030 to implement the Paris ...

  • Cina

    Romance of the three quarters

    “THE empire, long divided, must unite; long united, must divide.” This famous opening from “Romance of the Three Kingdoms”, a classic Chinese novel, refers to the inevitable ebb and flow of dynasties over the centuries. The same principle, in less dramatic fashion, applies to the ups and downs of the ...

  • Iran

    The over-promised land

    IT WAS billed as a once-in-a-generation opportunity. Iran is the “biggest new market to re-enter the global economy in decades”, British trade officials said in January, predicting more than $1 trillion of investment over ten years. “Iran is a new region to conquer,” said an imperial-minded boss of a French ...

  • USA

    Blood sports

    Harried Holmes “TRUST me. If the results are not there we would hear,” said Nimesh Jhaveri, a divisional vice-president at Walgreens, the largest pharmacy chain in America, when asked last June about the accuracy of revolutionary blood tests it was offering in some of its stores. A few months later the ...

  • Giappone

    Smoke signals

    TOBACCO companies specialise in contradiction. They herald the decline of smoking among youngsters, for example, then flaunt their sales to callow puffers. The most skilled contortionist in the industry may be Philip Morris International, the world’s biggest tobacco firm. To date, any good news for shareholders has been bad news ...

  • USA Nigeria

    Turning the tanker

    THE radio in the office of José Antonio González is tuned to one of the American classical-music stations that he loves. The sounds may be relaxing, but the firm Mr González has led since February—Pemex, Mexico’s state-owned oil company—is in crisis. On April 13th the Mexican government was forced to ...

  • USA

    G.M. Profits More Than Double

    General Motors' first quarter profit more than doubled as all of its business units posted improved numbers including record pretax earnings in North America.

  • Tunisia

    Tunisia: missione del Sottosegretario agli Esteri Vincenzo Amendola

    Il Sottosegretario agli Esteri, Vincenzo Amendola, ha oggi effettuato una missione in Tunisia, dove ha incontrato il Ministro dello Sviluppo, degli Investimenti e della Cooperazione Internazionale, Yassine Brahim; e quello dell’Energia e delle Miniere, Mongi Marzouk.  Nel corso della visita,...

  • Marocco

    Affaire CNSS

    «C’est parce qu’ils ont réformé la CNSS que ces gens-là sont au banc des accusés». La défense donne le ton d’une plaidoirie qui marque un chapitre important d’un procès-fleuve. Ce jour-là, le 19 avril 2016, Rafiq Haddaoui joue son destin à la Cour d’appel de Casablanca. L’ex-directeur général de ...