US office vacancy rates fall in Q4
The vacancy rate in the fourth quarter declined to 15.4%...
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Investors may soon find Iraq interesting
According to World Bank, economy is expected to grow by 7.2% despite the hurdles...
UK troubled by inflation and weak pound
How inflation and a weak pound are beginning to take hold of the UK economy...
Italy to push for ties with Iran
Remains undaunted by Trump’s election as US president IFM Correspondent November 24, 2016: In a rebuttal to US president-elect Donald Trump, Italy’s industry minister pledged to support business deals with Iran potentially worth billions of dollars. Iran re-joined the global business scene in January this year after the US decided to lift sanctions on the...
Italy to push for ties with Iran
Remains undaunted by Trump’s election as US president IFM Correspondent November 24, 2016: In a rebuttal to US president-elect Donald Trump, Italy’s industry minister pledged to support business deals with Iran potentially worth billions of dollars. Iran re-joined the global business scene in January this year after the US decided to lift sanctions on the...
Employment grows in the US
Businesses added 175,000 jobs to the US economy in October IFM Correspondent November 4, 2016: US employers hired more workers in October and also hiked the wages of existing workers. Businesses added 175,000 jobs to the US economy in October and 156,000 jobs in September, while the unemployment rate ticked up to 5%. “The expected...
Singapore’s economy to stay sluggish in 2017
Growth in 2017 expected to be only slightly higher than this year, just above 2% IFM Correspondent October 31, 2016: Singapore’s central bank, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), said that the country’s small, trade-dependent economy is going through a cyclical downturn that has lasted longer than expected and is not expected to pick up...
Next US president may have to deal with recession
WSJ survey reveals odds of a recession within next 12 months is about 21% IFM Correspondent October 24, 2016: Only a few weeks is left before the US chooses its 45th president. Historically, every US president elected till date has faced a recession or a recession-like scenario. A Wall Street Journal survey in June of...
Brexit: So far so good for the UK
Among other things, it is more price competitive in global markets, thanks to the depreciation of the pound Suparna Goswami Bhattacharya September 26, 2016: Though talks of the adverse after-effects of Brexit have been going on for a while, things have not been as bad for the country as was predicted, at least for now....
Brazil takes a $27 billion hit
That’s the cost of the Petrobras scandal to the world’s seventh largest economy Kamilia Lahrichi April 8, 2015: The Petrobras oil scandal, which sparked massive protests across Brazil against the government’s corruption and the economic slowdown, has cost $27.1 billion to the GDP of the world’s seventh largest economy, according to an April 2015 study...