World economy
Subbarao calls for mechanisms to enforce global financial discipline
10 May 2011
While countries could be persuaded to abandon policies that create negative spillovers for other countries, designing such deals and getting countries to agree to them, however, will remain a major challenge.
Trade must deliver more to LDCs: Lamy
09 May 2011
The least developed countries account for a fifth of the members of the World Trade Organisation, but they still account for just 1 per cent of world trade.
Euro nations divided on more funds for Greece
09 May 2011
Europe's debt crisis is back to square one after a year with EU nations back to addressing the problem of saving the malfunctioning Greek state, which is running out of money
UK car sales continue downward spiral
07 May 2011
Iranian power struggle intensifies
07 May 2011
China seeks to allay US fears on yuan
06 May 2011
Crude bounces back after record slump
06 May 2011
After slumping to $106 a barrel on Thursday – the biggest weekly decline in a year - oil climbed back in New York.
US should open doors to Chinese investment: report
04 May 2011
At $2.3 billion, China's share of investments in the US is less than that of smaller countries such as Mexico, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Brazil and India even as US companies have invested about $50 billion in China.
China's manufacturing growth slowed in April
02 May 2011
Foreign investment in China surges 33 per cent
19 Apr 2011
Irish banks dowgraded to junk staus by Moody’s
19 Apr 2011
China struggles to tame inflation
18 Apr 2011
China’s central bank yesterday raised the cash reserve ratio for banks to 20.5 per cent
Oil to boil again on Middle East unrest: Survey
16 Apr 2011
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