World economy

UK's super-fast broadband promise debunked as too little too late

22 Mar 2010

US: 'Kashmir key to Pakistan's long-term security'

By Rajiv Singh | 22 Mar 2010

The startling revelation that the Obama administration is all set to consider conferring a nuclear deal, similar to the Indo-US one, on arch-proliferator Pakistan holds ominous portents for the region, writes Rajiv Singh.

UK’s CBI forecasts slow and sluggish economic recovery

22 Mar 2010

US Congress clears landmark health care reform bill

22 Mar 2010

The US health care reform bill cleared all hurdles yesterday as the House of Representatives passed the legislation, on a tight, party-line vote, handing President Barack Obama a historic victory

India Bangladesh resume talks on river waters after five year hiatus

20 Mar 2010

European exports to China for 2009 up at record high

19 Mar 2010

Exports to China from the Euro-area rose 4 per cent in 2009 even as those to the US and the UK, the euro area’s biggest trade partners, declined by about 20 per cent.

EU trade commissioner takes on US, China

19 Mar 2010

EU trade commissioner Karel De Gucht has accused Washington of nursing a protectionist agenda and stalling the Doha talks and reiterated concerns about China manipulating its currency.

Yuan free float won’t correct trade imbalances: UNCTAD

18 Mar 2010

UN agency UNCTAD has joined the fray in the rising debate over yuan appreciation by asserting that a free floating yuan will not resolve global trade imbalances and that multilateral response was needed.

Older workers to outstrip freshers in European labour markets in 2010

15 Mar 2010

India-Africa summit to discuss 145 projects worth $9 billion

12 Mar 2010

Delegations from 34 African countries would converge at the 6th CII-Exim Bank Conclave on India-Africa Project Partnership being organised in New Delhi during 15 -16 March 2010.

Yuan firms up slightly as Obama urges revaluation

12 Mar 2010

The People's Bank of China set the yuan's central parity rate slightly higher against the US dollar even as president Obama fired a fresh salvo asking China to heed international calls to revalue its currency.

US monthly deficit at record 220.9 billion in February

11 Mar 2010

Mexico's Carlos Slim is world's richest: Forbes

11 Mar 2010

Mexico's Carlos Slim has nudged Bill Gates and Warren Buffett to take the top slot in the Forbes list of world's richest, which has India's Mukesh Ambani and Lakshmi Mittal among the top ten.

EU mulls curbs on derivative contracts to rescue troubled economies

10 Mar 2010

UK, France, Spain ratings at risk, warns Fitch

10 Mar 2010

US will stand by Greece to resolve crisis: Obama

10 Mar 2010

Brazil to impose trade sanctions against US in cotton subsidy dispute

09 Mar 2010

Yuan appreciation: Currency speculation on the rise

09 Mar 2010

Beijing’s dogged refusal to alter the exchange rate of its currency may already be inviting the first ripples of speculative action in the currency markets.

India, US to sign framework trade, investment pact on 17 March

09 Mar 2010

India and the United States will sign a framework trade agreement to facilitate increased flow of trade and investment between the two countries, especially in the high-tech areas

Governments crack glass ceiling better than private sector

08 Mar 2010

China to adjust monetary policy, says central bank governor

08 Mar 2010

Singapore's wealth fund GIC loses $5.1 billion in UBS investment

08 Mar 2010

By converting UBS notes into ordinary shares that gives it a 6.6-per cent stake, GIC  reported a paper los of about 45 per cent of its original $11 billion investment on current share prices

China wants yuan in SDR basket by 2015: report

06 Mar 2010

Terrorist attack alert in Strait of Malacca

06 Mar 2010

The governments of Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia have said they are beefing up security in the Strait of Malacca after receiving warnings of possible terrorist attacks on oil tankers.

Richard Quest’s Profitable Moment from Atlanta, Georgia

05 Mar 2010

The US is currently doing the economic equivalent of dancing two steps forward…one step back, writes CNN's London correspondent Richard Quest in an exclusive column to domain-b