While the massive and decisive victory for United Kingdom Prime Minister Boris Johnson has set an absolutely clear path for him to implement his version of Brexit, businesses continue to face the uncertainties of the impending exit of the UK… Read More ›
Day: December 13, 2019
Scientists Urge Government To Set ‘Peak Meat’ By 2030 To Address Climate Change
Scientists have warned that addressing climate change would require the peaking of production of livestock within the next decade. Scientists have already identified animal agriculture to be an important and fast-growing source of global greenhouse gas emissions and therefore scientists… Read More ›
Secure Trade Deals Fast, Businesses Urge Boris Johnson After His Victory
The soon to be sworn in Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Boris Johnson has been urged by multiple business groups and companies to start preparing for negotiations of terms and conditions for reaching trade agreements with the European Union… Read More ›
Trade War Weighs On Japan Business Sentiment In Q4, Its Worst In 7 Years
According to a survey by Japan’s central bank, the business sentiment of the big manufacturers of Japan have touched a seven year low during the fourth quarter of the current year as the slowing demand for Japanese products for the… Read More ›
China yet to respond to U.S. conditions for Phase 1 trade deal
According to U.S. sources, the United States is ready to suspend some tariffs provided China is willing to commit to purchasing more U.S. goods. As per a source briefed on the status of bilateral negotiations between Washington and Beijing, the… Read More ›
Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund, GIC to acquire logistics real estate in Europe for $1 billion
On Friday, Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund, GIC stated, it had signed a deal to acquire a logistics real estate portfolio from Apollo Global Management’s affiliates for about $1 billion (950 million euros). “The portfolio comprises of 28 logistics assets across… Read More ›
Deutsche, Citi, and ANZ may have violated cartel laws in Australia
On Friday, in a local court a magistrate presiding over a case which is yet to go to trial, was presented with a four-word handwritten note by a JPMorgan Chase & Co banker which was presented by Australian prosecutors as… Read More ›
British elections sees rise of nationalists in Northern Ireland and Scotland
On Friday, with Democratic Unionist Party deputy leader Nigel Dodds losing his seat in the British parliament has increases the likelihood of Northern Ireland electing more Irish nationalists than pro-British unionists for the first time since 1921. As a result,… Read More ›