Chinese exports slow but GDP growth remains on track says HSBC
Donna Kwok, an economist at HSBC in Hong Kong, talks the outlook for China’s economy and central bank monetary policy.
China’s manufacturing unexpectedly expanded last month on increased new orders, suggesting the world’s third largest…
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16th eurozone summit in two years fails to agree on Greek debt deal
European leaders left their 16th summit in two years last night without the deal on the Greek debt crisis promised for this week. The Greek negotiations completely overshadowed the event where 25 nations agreed to…
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Is Europe losing patience with Greece or Greece with Europe?
The interminably long Greek debt crisis seems to be finally coming to a head this week and will be a defining moment for 2012. If international banks can swallow the painful medicine of debt and…
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Not the Davos economic forum live from Dubai!
Not invited to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland last week ArabianMoney editor and publisher Peter Cooper joined Sandra Mergulhão from MyDubaiMyCity.com to discuss some of the main issues from an Arabian point of…
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No it’s not different this time warns Professor Ken Rogoff
Professor Ken Rogoff warned that things are not going to be any different this time and that business leaders are underestimating the impact of the eurozone crisis in an interview last week in Davos with…
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Dow ends week down 0.5% despite a surprise from the Fed
Even another 18 months of low interest rates from the Fed could not prevent the Dow Jones closing 0.5 per cent down last week, while the S&P 500 just scraped a 0.1 per cent gain.…
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IMF chief not ‘terribly positive’ about Greek debt outlook
International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde discusses Greece’s progress on structural overhauls and the role of the IMF in avoiding a default.
She admitted to being not ‘terribly positive’ about the outlook, and spoke…
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Niall Ferguson and Stephen King from HSBC discuss US and eurozone economic policy in Davos
Niall Ferguson, a history professor at Harvard University and a Bloomberg Television contributing editor, discusses the US economy, the outlook for Barack Obama to win a second term as president and Europe’s sovereign-debt crisis.
Stephen…
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How long can the Fed pump up the US bond bubble? Time to shift into hard assets?
The most obvious bubble in the global financial system is the US bond market and by far the biggest today. Holding interest rates until late 2014 as the Fed announced yesterday should hold it stable…
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Soros tells Davos forum eurozone and Iranian crises bad news for the Arab Spring
Billionaire investor and philanthropist George Soros has warned that the eurozone economic crisis poses a ‘big danger’ to the direction of the Arab Spring protests, revolutions and civil wars that started suddenly a year ago…
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