Reckless leadership
The crashing of a passenger aircraft carrying hundreds of human beings is a tragedy that impacts the lives of thousands of the victims' survivors. Malaysian Airlines' flight MH17 tragedy was…
Russian food embargo a big blow for EU producers: industry
Russia's embargo against food from the European Union will affect 10 percent of the EU's food exports and may cause a crisis of glut in Europe, industry experts said on…
Watch what markets don’t do as world politics turns nasty
Like so much in the investment world of late, it's what financial markets are not doing right now that is most intriguing. Over the course of the past month, conflicts,…
View Point: The myth of media neutrality
The death and destruction Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip are enduring is hard to watch even on TV screens. Blood soaked bodies of children, men and women of all…
Destroyed jet, sanctions to drive more money to Latam, Asia
The downing of a Malaysian passenger jet over eastern Ukraine on Thursday is likely to keep fixed income investors shunning Russia, and eastern Europe more broadly, in favour of other…
About-face for ECB’s Draghi as he seeks to jolt eurozone into life
Prodding governments to do more to boost demand and hinting at European Central Bank action to go along with it marks a major shift in ECB chief Mario Draghi's euro…
Promise of more keeps investors hooked on Asia’s frothy markets
Calling the top in financial markets is never easy. Asian stock and bond markets may appear frothy at their near-record levels after a multi-year rally, but global investors are still…
Falling gas prices threaten LNG export projects
A sharp fall in European and Asian gas prices this year will put liquefied natural gas (LNG) export projects world-wide under heavy cost pressure, and even kill some off, as…
An EU agenda: keeping British in, Russians out, Germans down
The first secretary-general of Nato, Lord Ismay, once said the Western defence alliance was created "to keep the Americans in, the Russians out and the Germans down". The task facing…
Enemy at the gate
WHILE Pakistan’s squabbling politicians have paralysed the nation’s capital in a naked power struggle, the emerging threat to the country from across the border has been almost completely ignored. The…
