Author: AFPID: 1571111594406287500Tue, 2019-10-15 03:16GENEVA: The Libra Association, created by Facebook to launch its new cryptocurrency, has announced its 21 founding members after defections by previous supporters including Visa and Mastercar…
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Author: Mon, 2019-10-14 22:17TOKYO: Under-pressure start-up WeWork is considering two huge bailout plans including a cash injection that could see Japanese investment titan SoftBank take control of the firm, according to reports.The office-shari…
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Author: Mon, 2019-10-14 22:02STOCKHOLM: US-based economists Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer won the 2019 Nobel Economics Prize on Monday for work fighting poverty that has helped millions of children by favoring practical steps o…
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Author: ReutersID: 1571054125229923700Mon, 2019-10-14 11:49BERLIN: German flight attendants’ union UFO is calling for a five-hour strike on Sunday at German flag carrier Lufthansa, UFO said on Monday, in an escalating row over workers’ pay.…
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Mon, 2019-10-14 13:11RIYADH: Russian and Chinese investors are keen to be involved in the international element of the forthcoming initial public offering of Saudi Aramco, a Russian business leader told Arab News on Monday.“I would say that so…
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Author: ReutersID: 1571036752548772300Mon, 2019-10-14 07:01DUBAI: Emirates doubts it will receive any of the 115 Boeing 777-9s it has ordered next year, its president said on Monday, as the US planemaker grapples with challenges in building the j…
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Author: ReutersID: 1571025187088436200Mon, 2019-10-14 03:47BEIJING: China’s exports fell at a faster pace in September while imports contracted for a fifth straight month, pointing to further weakness in the economy and underlining the need for…
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Author: AFPID: 1571025104598432700Mon, 2019-10-14 03:42SINGAPORE: Singapore eased monetary policy for the first time in more than three years on Monday as the US-China trade war bites, while the export-reliant economy narrowly avoided recession i…
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Author: Mon, 2019-10-14 05:19KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia’s Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said his government will monitor the trade situation with India, which is reported to be considering trade curbs on the Southeast Asian nation over his critici…
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Sun, 2019-10-13 22:00LAS VEGAS: Forget oil, the 21st century’s economy will be all about data — it is something we have heard a lot since the turn of the decade.As Brian Householder, CEO of the Hitachi Vantara group, said at the Hitachi NEXT…
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The UAE's DMCC takes home the top prize in fDi’s Global Free Zones of the Year for a fifth consecutive year. 
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As formerly volatile parts of Africa become more attractive, ongoing sanctions mean the need for foreign investors to know exactly who they are dealing with has never been greater.
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Five African countries are defying a generally gloomy global economy, with Ghana, for example, attracting an IMF forecast of almost 9% growth.
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Investment into the Middle East region by US-based companies showed a notable increase between the beginning fo 2016 and the end of 2018. 
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Ethiopia has approved its first foreign finance licence as part of prime minister Abiy Ahmed’s continuing economic reform agenda. 
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China’s second most populous city, Shanghai, tops Unctad’s LSCI ranking of the world’s best-connected ports for the ninth consecutive year. 
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Canada has traditionally been the major investor in Namibia's mining sector, but interest has dried up in recent years. Who will fill the gap?
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Hopes are high that the liberalisation of Namibia's energy market will attract foreign investment, though opportunities remain in the country's agriculture and garment manufacturing sectors. 
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The global fashion industry is a major consumer of resources and cause of pollution. As companies pledge to clean up, will governments come on board? 
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Country-specific data is widely available for companies to decide where to put their investment. Robert Ginsburg, president of RBG Global, explains how this data should be used. 
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Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures encourages companies to put a cost on risks from global warming
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One-time ‘bond king’ recommends dividend-paying stocks over negative-yielding debt
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Vote to stop funding projects would extend clampdown on fossil fuel use
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Millennials are largest voting bloc but many are disillusioned with prime minister
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What WeWork, Peloton and Uber could learn from a survivor of the internet bubble
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Brussels eyes further extension after UK’s latest proposals fall short
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Moderates worry radical tactics will harm support as police allege first use of a bomb
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Study shows 90 per cent of family fortunes are depleted by the third generation
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Unitymedia deal shifts UK group’s focus but pressure is on to make strategy work
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Steep rise this year could mean more expensive bacon in Spain, Germany and Poland
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Millions of Russian tourists will no longer be soaking up the sun in Turkey and supermarkets across Russia will soon stop carrying Turkish produce after economic relations between the two countries further deteriorated on Monday. Russia prevented 1,2…
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Russia continued to ratchet up sanctions against Turkey Monday, announcing a ban on the import of Turkish fruits and vegetables, the Wall Street Journal reported. As sharp words are exchanged between the two trading partners, other countries are alre…
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World leaders convene in France on Monday for the latest global conference on climate change, called COP21, in an attempt to forge the first legally binding climate agreement amid increasing urgency. Yet officials from some countries are worried that…
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Turkey on Saturday issued a travel warning to its citizens, asking them to avoid all non-urgent travel to Russia, as diplomatic tension between the two countries escalates over the downing of a Russian jet by Turkey earlier this week.The Turkish…
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UPDATED 9:45 a.m. EST: Russia will suspend visa-free travel agreement with Turkey, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Friday. The action takes effect Jan. 1, the BBC reported.
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Russia threatened economic retaliation against Turkey on Thursday and said it was still awaiting a reasonable explanation for the shooting down of its warplane, but Turkey dismissed the threats as "emotional" and "unfitting".In an escalating war of…
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (Reuters) -- Speculation that Saudi Arabia could devalue its currency may owe more to a poor public-relations effort by Saudi authorities than to the economic pressures on the kingdom. Riyadh has the tools available to pro…
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One particular sentence spoken by the Russian foreign minister Tuesday has Turkish officials feeling particularly uneasy: “We do not recommend that our citizens travel to Turkey for tourism or any other reason,” Sergey Lavrov said. He was in So…
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Saudi Arabia and Angola both beat out Russia as the largest crude oil suppliers to China in October, Bloomberg reported Monday. The huge China market is one arena where the world’s suppliers continue to compete for share amid a global oil glut, a…
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European leaders are planning to crack down on the use of bitcoin, prepaid credit cards and other methods of anonymous payment in response to the Paris attacks last week, Reuters reported Thursday. It's part of a crisis plan that aims to dismantle…
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MILLIONS OF SHIAS will walk to the holy city of Karbala this month, ending the annual mourning period for Hussein, grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, who was killed 14 centuries ago. But Iraqi pilgrims will also wail for the 110 people, all Shia, whom…
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WHEN KENYA announced in June that it would issue new 1,000 shilling ($10) notes and destroy the old ones to fight corruption, many predicted chaos. India’s efforts to do the same by “demonetising” rupees in 2016 led to riots, deaths and a dent…
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ON OCTOBER 7TH Anastácio Matavele left a training session for election observers in Xai-Xai, the capital of Gaza province in southern Mozambique. Matavele, an experienced observer, was chased in his car by men allegedly belonging to a specialist pol…
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LIGHT-FINGERED tyrants are looking back wistfully. In past decades they could stash their illicit wealth in the West. Friendly lawyers, banks and middlemen were on hand to park the loot. Sani Abacha, the military dictator who ran Nigeria in the 1990s…
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AFTER YEARS of threats, it took Turkey mere days to strike. On October 9th the Turkish armed forces began bombing parts of north-east Syria. Controlled by a Kurdish-led militia, the region had been an American protectorate until just days before, wh…
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A HUGE JET of flame bursting from the Kaombo Norte oil platform lights up the sea some 260km (160 miles) off the coast of Angola. The processing platform, part of a $16bn project that takes oil from wells drilled under nearly 2km of water, ought to…
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“HOW IS DEMOCRACY?” asks Bashir Ahmed Hashi, smiling broadly, as he bounds out of his jeep towards the gates of Jigjiga prison. Entering the courtyard, the commissioner is greeted by a loud cheer. Excitable inmates jostle to shake his hand and pa…
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IN THE LOBBY of a Beirut bank, three customers stuff wads of $100 bills into plastic bags. Each note has its serial number recorded on a receipt, as local law requires. One man’s receipt was so long it trailed on the ground as he left the branch. S…
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DRIVERS CALLED it the “highway through hell”. Attacks on the road linking Baghdad to Amman occurred so often in 2014 that truckers were paid three times the normal rate to haul goods along the artery. Gangs and militias were a constant threat. Th…
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THE FIRST ten days of the Jewish new year, between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, are known as the days of atonement. It is a time in which observant Jews take stock of their sins in the preceding year. That Israel’s attorney-general, Avichai Mandel…
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He resorts to sanctions as the harm from withdrawal builds.
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The candidate wants to join with Big Tech to suppress her opposition.
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Congress has the power to manage territories as it wants.
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The attorney general gives a speech on secularism, and the left goes bananas.
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Beijing’s schemes imperil American companies and national security. It’ll take a huge effort to stop them.
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Syria’s refugee flows, violence and instability have pushed us to the limit of our tolerance.
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Immigration and growth would help more than addressing the winners’ ‘manageable questions.’
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The Syria withdrawal worried allies, divided the GOP, and made his job a lot harder.
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They make it seem like deep thinking is going on, but it isn’t.
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Do CNN and NBC still want to defend the family business model?
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