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Retail groups should cooperate to expand

Good partners can create added value, writes Levent Eyuboglu, CEO of Turkmall

Can retail and shopping malls grow in such a world? Debt crisis, democracy rights…Is there a place where our business may continue to grow? My answer is yes. The opportunities and the markets are out there and they are not waiting, they are just moving ...

How to trade like a banker

Individual traders often feel under-privileged compared with senior traders and financial institutions, but there is a way to access the same market knowledge and competitive resources

New individual traders often feel lost and clueless after they spend a few days trading in the foreign exchange market. Specifically, if you are new to the world of forex, you often feel under-privileged compared with senior traders and financial institut...

The high price of natural disasters

Even with the economic bounce provided post-reconstruction, the impact of natural disasters on GDP is lasting and significant, as Japan well knows

If countries could choose their natural disasters, most would prefer floods over earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. That’s because floods, being easier to predict, generally wreak less social and economic havoc. But sometimes nations are unlucky enough...

Monetising volatility

As the world continues to be rocked by the European sovereign debt crisis, it is no surprise that many traders are expressing caution. But opportunities remain, writes Alpari (UK)’s James Hughes

It may be the case that markets hate uncertainty, but the average trader can thrive from the volatility created. It seems that this uncertainty has been the major point that has pushed many to the phones of their brokers asking for that most unusual of se...

BOVESPA highlights sustainability agenda

Stock exchanges have an important role to play in the awareness, promotion, and implementation of best corporate practices

Change is not easy. Whether personal or professional, change entails leaving your comfort zone and exposing yourself to new situations in which the learning experience can be beneficial. New situations require new solutions. They challenge us and put us t...

Gold surges to record high amid growth concern


The bullion on Friday reached an all time high with a 1.6 percent rise to $1,853.2 an ounce in the midst of resurgent fears about …


The bullion on Friday reached an all time high with a 1.6 percent rise to $1,853.2 an ounce in the midst of resurgent fears about global economic growth. 
 
US and EU equity markets plunged as investors reached towards the seeming ...

Water technology advances

Tan Sri Rozali Ismail, founder and Executive Chairman of Malaysian water company Puncak Niaga, tells Jane Bordenave about the opportunities for investment and innovation in his sector and beyond

Puncak Niaga is the leading provider of integrated water, wastewater and environmental solutions in Malaysia. The company was founded in 1997 and that year became the first of its kind to be fully listed on the Malaysian stock exchange, the Main Board of ...

The unwavering value of precious metals

The growth of precious metals is far from over, says Svetoslav Georgiev

Gold and silver have undoubtedly been the focus of investors over the recent months. The price of gold increased by more than 27 percent in a year, and silver has gone from less than $20 an ounce in September 2010 to more than $49 in April 2011, an increa...

Carbonomics: The growth of a long term market

The buying and selling of carbon credits between businesses has given rise to a rapid growth market, writes Lyndon Driver

The 1997 Kyoto Protocol set in place targets for the reduction of CO2 emissions by participating countries by the year 2012. Following this, Europe developed a system whereby individual companies within each participating country have been allocated emiss...

Fancy flotations

Recent private equity-sponsored IPOs look good for the industry, says Kirk Radke. He spoke to Selwyn Parker

In the break-out from the financial crisis, one of the much-debated issues has been whether the kind of private equity-sponsored initial public offerings seen before 2008 would ever make a comeback. Although nobody’s predicting the imminent return o...

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Zimbabwe

234.1% of GDP, pariah of debt markets, but with hopes for a healthy twelve months ahead

Japan

197.5%, hard-hit by the tsunami, and reeling from the internal corruption allegations

Greece

142.8%, possibly heading for default, and considered one of many eurozone bad boys

Lebanon

133.8%, deceptively, has a strong banking sector, but little more in an ailing economy

Iceland

126%, hopelessly indebted banks and very little light at the end of a long and gloomy tunnel

Italy

119% of GDP, in need of reform, paying over 7% for its debt thanks to technocratic leadership

Singapore

106%, to many an idyllic investment destination, a great borrower, repayer, and long term option

Belgium

101%, no government for most of 2011 didn’t help a weak economy in dire need of stimulus

Egypt

90%, high but it’s recovering from a long and protracted revolution and aiming high

European Union

82%, stronger countries like Germany are contaminated by the weakest. It could go on…