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Companies complain that the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act creates an uneven playing field when doing business abroad in places corruption flourishes. Are they right?
Market “hiccups” are painful for western markets, but a good sign of the internationalisation of Renminbi.
Troubles in the eurozone can be viewed as a continuing fallout to the 2008 global crisis.
Do innovations like PayPal, Square, Apple Pay and Bitcoin spell the end of cash? How different countries are adopting new forms of financial tech.
How tax authorities decide to treat virtual currencies like bitcoin may determine whether they thrive or die.
The ability to create faster, better and cheaper solutions using minimal resources is poised to drive global growth in 2016 and beyond.
The Fed lifted its target interest rate for the first time in nearly a decade, which was hardly a surprise. What happens next may still stump us.
Why the US is set to raise its interest rates this week for the first time since the financial crisis.
The root cause of our vulnerability is the structure of the global economy: highly interconnected, complex and filled with turbulence.
The two-year BEPS project is just a band-aid for a deeply flawed system.
China’s slowdown will cast a long shadow for global economic growth from the Americas to Australia.
Why stock markets across the world have plunged into the red.
A dedicated group of forward-looking experts have crunched the numbers on human progress. There’s good news, and there’s bad news.
Mining, along with agriculture, will continue to be key parts of the Australian economy – but new growth is expected in the services sector.
Now is not the time for complacency. Australia must be on the front foot if it wants to make the most of what economists are calling the “new normal.”
A new IMF report predicts a crackdown on cheap credit in China will help reduce China’s real GDP growth rate from 7.4% last year to 6.8% this year and further weaken demand for Australian commodities.
The latest round of quarterly results have recently come out and the likes of Apple and Boeing have announced bumper profits. Others such as Sainsbury’s and Samsung have not fared so well. So what is it…
Despite sluggishness in the world economy, global trade reached an astonishing US$23 trillion last year. The World Trade Organization has been the primary guarantor of this extraordinary growth in global…
The subprime crisis and the subsequent failure of Lehman Brothers came as such a shock – and the repercussions were so severe that when the time came to mount a response, policy makers were as surprised…
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