Gold: not the safe haven it was once considered to be.
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The best answer for dealing with a volatile market is to do nothing.
‘Heave away boys …’
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With the economic dashboard flashing red, here’s the route to safety.
Bribe or tip?
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Companies complain that the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act creates an uneven playing field when doing business abroad in places corruption flourishes. Are they right?
China’s sharemarket troubles hang over Western bourses.
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Market “hiccups” are painful for western markets, but a good sign of the internationalisation of Renminbi.
The influx of refugees into Europe has put pressure on the structures of the eurozone itself.
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Troubles in the eurozone can be viewed as a continuing fallout to the 2008 global crisis.
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Do innovations like PayPal, Square, Apple Pay and Bitcoin spell the end of cash? How different countries are adopting new forms of financial tech.
But for how long?
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How tax authorities decide to treat virtual currencies like bitcoin may determine whether they thrive or die.
Raspberry pi: a computer that’s smaller than a $5 bill and cheaper than one to buy.
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The ability to create faster, better and cheaper solutions using minimal resources is poised to drive global growth in 2016 and beyond.
Traders reacted to the news.
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The Fed lifted its target interest rate for the first time in nearly a decade, which was hardly a surprise. What happens next may still stump us.
Traders will be paying close attention to the Fed’s decision on interest rates.
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Why the US is set to raise its interest rates this week for the first time since the financial crisis.
Our response to terrorism.
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The root cause of our vulnerability is the structure of the global economy: highly interconnected, complex and filled with turbulence.
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The two-year BEPS project is just a band-aid for a deeply flawed system.
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China’s slowdown will cast a long shadow for global economic growth from the Americas to Australia.
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Why stock markets across the world have plunged into the red.
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A dedicated group of forward-looking experts have crunched the numbers on human progress. There’s good news, and there’s bad news.
Australia can expect expansion in sectors such as tourism, the health and financial services sectors, banking and securities.
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Mining, along with agriculture, will continue to be key parts of the Australian economy – but new growth is expected in the services sector.
What goes up must come down: Australia’s economy is in for a wild ride ahead.
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Now is not the time for complacency. Australia must be on the front foot if it wants to make the most of what economists are calling the “new normal.”
Large movements in relative prices will create winners and losers this year, the IMF has said.
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A new IMF report predicts a crackdown on cheap credit in China will help reduce China’s real GDP growth rate from 7.4% last year to 6.8% this year and further weaken demand for Australian commodities.
Apple’s global network control has helped it achieve bumper profits.
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The latest round of quarterly results have recently come out and the likes of Apple and Boeing have announced bumper profits. Others such as Sainsbury’s and Samsung have not fared so well. So what is it…
A trade spat between India and the US was the most serious threat to the WTO in years.
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Despite sluggishness in the world economy, global trade reached an astonishing US$23 trillion last year. The World Trade Organization has been the primary guarantor of this extraordinary growth in global…