• Vietnam Myanmar

    A new shared journey

    Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Vietnam and Thailand (CLMVT) are being urged to embark on a new journey of mutual trade, using more technology to link trade information, jointly developing regional products, and tackling non-tariff barriers.

  • Portogallo

    Nortenhos são os que mais querem viajar

    Residentes no Porto e Norte lideram nas intenções de fazer férias fora de casa neste verão. Gasto médio por pessoa será de 425euro.

  • Colombia

    Desde Colombia, Mauricio Macri pronosticó nuevas inversiones por US$ 4000 millones

     

  • India Pakistan

    Stocks and stones

    IN JULY 2008 outraged investors in Karachi, Pakistan’s commercial capital, pelted the local stock exchange with stones after a plunge in share prices. In Lahore investors blocked the road to the city’s exchange with burning tyres. In Islamabad a mob set fire to share certificates. The panicked exchanges simply prohibited ...

  • USA

    Diving into the mire

    WHEN Wells Fargo’s competitors were spending fortunes building up big investment-banking operations in the 1980s and 1990s, the bank’s chief executive at the time, Richard Kovacevich, refused to follow suit, joking that the business would be a good one to get into were it not for all the people who ...

  • Cina India

    A governor with a view

    You cut the deficit, I’ll cut rates RAGHURAM RAJAN need not even leave his office atop the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) tower in Mumbai to gauge two factors central to India’s prosperity. Looking down, the ships sailing to nearby docks provide clues as to the buoyancy of foreign trade: the ...

  • USA

    A history of violence

    WITH awful, numbing regularity Americans use high-powered, high-capacity firearms to carry out mass shootings. And with awful regularity, efforts to reform America’s gun laws in the wake of such tragedies fail. (Indeed, a recent paper published by the Harvard Business School found that a mass shooting leads to a 75% ...

  • USA

    No business like show business

    Bastard, orphan, hero, scholar “HAMILTON”, a hip-hop musical about one of America’s founding fathers and the architect of its financial system, is an unlikely smash. Lin-Manuel Miranda’s creation has been the hottest ticket on Broadway since the show started in July last year. On June 12th it won 11 Tony awards, ...

  • Turchia

    Turkish businessman calls for normalized ties with Israel

    Normalizing diplomatic relations with Israel would help bolster the trade volume between Turkey and Israel, according to the chairman of the Turkish-Israeli Business Council at Turkey’s Foreign Economic Relations Board (DEİK)

  • Turchia Iran

    Turkey aims to triple trade with Iran: Minister

    Turkey aims to triple trade with Iran to $30 billion as quickly as possible after the lifting of economic sanctions made banking transactions with the country easier, Turkish Customs and Trade Minister Bülent Tüfenkçi said in an interview