South Africa has few short-term tools to boost growth

Ratings agency Moody's yesterday downgraded leading utilities Eskom and Telkom, along with...

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QE3 will boost US housing, banks more than job market

The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) on September 13 announced bold new monetary policy...

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Turkey's GDP grew by only 3.1% in the first half of 2012, according to official provisional data,...

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The 'troika' of the IMF, European Commission and ECB publishes in mid-October its assessment of...

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Real returns on risk-free assets are zero or negative, and equity market volatility is an...

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The deteriorating situation in the euro-area and, especially, the increasingly visible slowdown...

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The ECB governing council meets on Thursday amid speculation that it will announce new measures...

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The critical factors affecting the global economy this year -- chiefly the euro-area crisis and...

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The outlook for the US political economy during the fourth quarter and early next year revolves...

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Three years after a banking sector bail out and commencement of reforms by the Central Bank of...

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