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Global Investment Banks Stumbling in China01 Jun 2011

June 1, For many international investment banks the A-share market is an appetizing prospect, but they are realizing that it is not that easy to bite in to as domestic companies prove effective competitors. China led the world in initi [...]

Posted On : Jun, 01 2011 | Comments : 0

Sensex hits 17,000 on +ve global cues; banks, metals up

The Sensex started the first day of the week on a positive note led by positive global cues and turned back above the 17,000 mark in the early trade. The Nifty was also trading above the 5,000 mark. Metal, realty, banking and auto stocks we [...]

Posted On : Nov, 16 2009 | Comments : 0

Is global money good for Asia?

THE world has certainly changed when two friends, one from the United States and one from Britain, suddenly sent me an email to ask what I thought of People’s Bank of China Governor Zhou Xiaochuan’s call for a global currency. [...]

Posted On : May, 09 2009 | Comments : 0

Global Airline Passenger Traffic Slumped 10 Percent in Febru...

Global airline passenger traffic fell 10 percent last month, the steepest decline since the recession began, led by a plunge in long-haul travel. The decline, gathering pace from a 5.6 percent fall in year-on-year traffic in January, includ [...]

Posted On : Mar, 27 2009 | Comments : 0

Global Financial Assets Lost $50 Trillion Last Year, ADB Say...

The value of global financial assets including stocks, bonds and currencies probably fell by more than $50 trillion in 2008, equivalent to a year of world gross domestic product, according to an Asian Development Bank report. Asia excludi [...]

Posted On : Mar, 09 2009 | Comments : 0

Major Challenges Remain for Global Food Security

While much of the publicity surrounding the global recession has focused on people losing their jobs or retirement savings, the nightmare is even more immediate for hundreds of millions of others who live at the edge of survival. They go t [...]

Posted On : Mar, 07 2009 | Comments : 0

Is China Playing Puppet Master to the Global Markets?

This morning, the UK Telegraph published an article titled "China Threatens ‘nuclear option? of dollar sales. This has received more than the usual press because shifts in Chinese Policy are typically announced through government [...]

Posted On : Aug, 13 2007 | Comments : 0

Global warming could hit Southwest hard

Global warming will permanently change the climate of the American Southwest, making it so much hotter and drier that Dust Bowl-scale droughts will become common, a new climate report concludes. Sign up for: Globe Headlines e-mail | [...]

Posted On : Apr, 06 2007 | Comments : 0

Uncertainties plague global gas industry

DOHA • Growing nationalism in major gas producing countries, lack of progress on key pipeline projects in Asia and uncertainties surrounding gas-handling and internal transmission issues in China and India overall paint a disturbing pi [...]