World economy

Moody’s warns Brexit to hit entire European economy

19 May 2016

US Senate’s 9/11 bill against Saudi Arabia set for Obama veto

18 May 2016

Beijing blasts US report on China Sea operations

16 May 2016

CIA spy’s input led to Nelson Mandela’s 28-year imprisonment

16 May 2016

US says India ready to be in Nuclear Suppliers Group, China objects

14 May 2016

China is harping on an earlier, but now irrelevant, demand that members of the group should have signed the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT)

China economic data raises fresh doubts over recovery

14 May 2016

G7 to tackle global steel glut at Japan summit

14 May 2016

Oil glut to continue this year, may ease next year: OPEC

14 May 2016

Lower non-OPEC output has been made up by increased output from OPEC countries, including Iran, but falling non-OPEC production should lead to a stronger market next year

Eurozone growth estimate revised down to 0.5%

13 May 2016

Graft sucks $2 trillion a year out of world economy : IMF

13 May 2016

Queen’s gaffe: China blames ‘barbarians’ in British media

13 May 2016

Study finds the middle class disappearing in major US cities

12 May 2016

The American middle class has been shrinking due to rising income inequality driven by factors including globalisation, outsourcing of jobs and advances in technology

Rajan calls for rethink on developed world’s monetary expansionism

12 May 2016

RBI governor Raghuram Rajan has called on his counterparts in the developed world to own up responsibility for shaking up the global financial system through their expansionary monetary policies

Panama Papers reveal 2,000 Indian links so far

11 May 2016

GOP begins bowing to the inevitable as Trump wins 2 more

11 May 2016

German ‘jihadist’ kills 1 in knife attack

10 May 2016

EU central to success of Scotch: SWA chief

09 May 2016

Economists call for new global rules to report firms’ taxable activities country-wise

09 May 2016

Greek MPs adopt tough new austerity measures to secure €86 bn EU bailout

09 May 2016

The reforms voted yesterday would cut Greece’s highest pension payouts, merge several pension funds, increase contributions and increase the tax burden of those with medium and high incomes

Export demand keeps German factory production buoyant

09 May 2016

While domestic orders fell and orders from euro zone countries edged up by 1.1 per cent, bookings from countries outside the currency bloc soared 6.2 per cent

Big names squirm as Panama Papers set to go public today

09 May 2016

The ICIJ, which has access to the so-called Panama Papers, will reveal names and information on 200,000 offshore entities set up by wealthy individuals around the world, even as implicated law firm Mossack Fonseca seeks to block the move

Liberty Reserve co-founder sentenced to 20 years in prison

07 May 2016

Person behind Panama Papers offers to aid law agencies

07 May 2016

‘John Doe’, the anonymous source behind the huge leak of documents known as the Panama Papers, has offered to aid law enforcement officials in tracking money laundering on condition that he is given immunity