Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) among existing companies may lead to anti-competitive practices. Regulation of combinations, M&A in common parlance, is a subject matter of enforcement for the Competition Commission of India (CCI) under the provisions...
The Markit group that provides many of the PMI surveys noted with today’s reports that the eurozone outlook has “darkened dramatically.” This makes for a poor backdrop for the ECB, which meets next week. However,...
Tensions between the world’s two largest economies over trade issues have dominated the agenda in recent weeks. Trade in goods and services is important. China is the top market for US goods exports in 2017....
Investors are having a fit. For the first two months after the early March Italian elections, investors could hardly care less. Italy’s premium over Germany to borrow money for a decade fell to a two-year...
So far the US, China, Euro Area, France, Italy, Spain and the UK have reported the first cut of Q1 GDP growth and all are either the same as for Q4 or lower and some...
There are ostensibly three main political forces in Italy. The Five Star Movement is seen as a populist party who’s agenda appears unique blend of right/left issues. From the March elections, it emerged as the...
Aristotle is a famous philosopher. He had an even better known pupil – Alexander. But Alexander did not get much time to study, for his father Philip was assassinated when he was 16 in 340...
The economic theories of Karl Marx, born 200 years ago, became unchallengeable doctrine in many countries for much of the 20th century. We take a look at which of his ideas were right — and...
On the domestic front, Mr Trump’s undoubted major achievement has been to push ‘yuge’ tax cuts though a Republican Congress without conceding savings on federal spending. This certainly boosted equity prices and it seems many...
The euro made a marginal new low early in European turnover and held barely above the spike low on March 1 to $1.2155. So far, today is the first session since January 11 that the...
Through Republican and Democrat Administrations, no US president has found that a foreign country’s activities have risen to the level that can be considered manipulation for nearly a quarter of a century. Initially, the law...
Previously super-enthusiastic retail investors don’t like what they’ve been seeing in the stock market since January. That’s clear from TD Ameritrade’s Investor Movement Index, which dropped another 12% in March, after having plunged 23% in February,...