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10.04.2025 | A global commodity sell-off is flashing warning signals for the world economy | The S&P GSCI index, which tracks global commodities across the energy, metals and agriculture sectors, shows that prices have declined over 8% since April 2, when U.S. President Donald Trump announced a slew of “reciprocal” tariffs.
“Th... |
04.04.2025 | Japan PM says Trump tariffs a 'national crisis' | TOKYO: US President Donald Trump's tariffs on Japanese goods are a "national crisis", Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said on Friday (Apr 4) ahead of cross-party talks on mitigating the impact on the heavily export-dependent economy... |
12.03.2025 | What US retreat means for South Africa’s energy transition | Climate programmes targeting about US$45-billion (R825-billion) in funding for emerging economies won’t be derailed by America’s decision to withdraw, according to analysts.
The US decision to exit from a leading role in Just Energy Transit... |
29.11.2024 | Oil prices rise over accusations of breaches to Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire | Oil prices rise over accusations of breaches to Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire
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16.11.2024 | Naira fails to hold N1,650/$ support line in official market | The Nigerian currency hit a multi-weekly low this week, demonstrating that CBN’s intervention and attractive fixed-income yields have not stopped the naira’s decline.
The Nigerian currency lost the N1,650/$ support line at the last trading ... |
31.10.2024 | South Africa's Energy Renaissance: A New Dawn for Eskom and the Economy | South Africa stands at a crossroads. For years, the nation has battled crippling power outages, a situation that turned daily life into a game of chance. Businesses shuttered, homes grew dark, and the economy stumbled. But now, a flicker of... |
28.10.2024 | How Eskom went from zero to unlikely hero | Aslina Wines, an independent winemaker located among the rolling vineyards of Stellenbosch, counts a large generator among its most valuable inventory. It relied on the machine to stay up and running during the worst of South Africa’s power... |
19.09.2024 | CNA Explains: What does a Fed rate cut mean for you in Singapore? | Listen to this article
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15.08.2024 | The Rise of Wealth in North Asia: A New Era of Investment and Transformation | In the bustling streets of Hong Kong and the dynamic markets of Shanghai, a new chapter is unfolding. The region is witnessing a surge in wealth, investment, and transformation. At the forefront of this change is Alvarez & Marsal (A&... |
14.08.2024 | Клуб сверхбогатых людей Индии процветает: куда инвестируют самые богатые люди страны | По данным консалтинговой компании Knight Frank, в ближайшие несколько лет в Индии будет наблюдаться самый быстрый рост числа состоятельных людей во всем мире, сообщает CNBC. В начале этого года финансовый центр Индии, Мумбаи, обогнал Пекин ... |
04.08.2023 | Debt is America’s golden goose. Fitch can’t kill it | On August 1, credit rating agency Fitch downgraded the United States from its highest triple AAA rating to AA+. Two of the three leading ratings agencies now rate the US at their second highest tier – Standard and Poor’s previously downgrad... |
27.04.2023 | Research Shows How AIIB-Amundi Climate Change Investment Framework Can Guide Investors | Concentrated efforts needed toward climate adaptation planning and implementation: Companies and Climate Change Report
BEIJING and LONDON, April 27, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), Amundi and Climate Bo... |
13.09.2022 | Fitch Group adding capital-markets fintech dv01 to its fold | Fitch Group, the parent of bond-rating firm Fitch Ratings, is acquiring a majority ownership stake in capital-markets fintech company dv01 — which provides data and analytics services to the structured-finance market.
Terms of the deal were... |
28.03.2022 | Booming ride-hailing sector to boost vehicle sales | While vehicle sales in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) are expected to continue on a downward spiral this year, the burgeoning ride-hailing industry in the region offers automakers and car dealers an opportunity to develop a new sales market.
This... |
11.03.2022 | Offering homestyle African cuisine, Kune is changing the face of Kenya’s food delivery sector | Nairobi is witnessing an explosion of last-mile food and grocery delivery. For employees in offices and families at home, ordering a meal has become commonplace.
One issue, however, is lack of choice. “People have been ordering fast food be... |
27.01.2022 | Tavares EU CO2 Critique Finds Support, But Environmentalists Disagree | Carlos Tavares, chief executive officer of Stellantis. Photographer: Cyril Marcilhacy/Bloomberg © 2021 Bloomberg Finance LP |
18.01.2022 | Transasia Minerals Ltd announces plans to develop a nickel processing facility in Indonesia with Artha Bumi Mining group by 2024 | The USD 2 billion facility will produce ferronickel and EV battery grade nickel sulphate
JAKARTA, INDONESIA – Media OutReach – 19 January 2022 – Transasia Minerals Ltd, an international mining company headquartered in Jakarta, Indonesia, to... |
03.11.2021 | Egypt’s Breadfast wants to build ‘Gopuff for Africa and Middle East’, gets $26M backing | The market for food and grocery delivery across Africa and the Middle East is worth nearly $1 trillion. And Egypt, buoyed by a young and growing population, is a big market across both regions.
Investors are beginning to back their picks to... |
08.09.2021 | Digitization seeds opportunities for Eastern Africa's rural farmers | By Everlyne Situma
BUNGOMA, Kenya-I have always loved farming. My passion comes from growing up in rural western Kenya, where I braved chilly Saturday mornings to till a small piece of land that my family owned. It was near a stream, and we... |
19.08.2021 | Vietnam's Electronics Industry Appeals to Foreign Investors | August 19, 2021 5 min read
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Vietnam’s electronics industry is still growing despite the negative impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. In recent years, Vietnam has implemented some tr... |
02.05.2020 | 4 Fintechs in Myanmar to Watch | When it comes to fintech, Myanmar has a lot of catching up to do. With a little over a dozen companies compared to about 150 in Vietnam, and over 490 in Singapore, the Burmese fintech sector still trails far behind the rest of Asia. But wit... |
04.09.2019 | Brazil’s Agrosmart raises $5.8m Series A for digital tool serving Coca-Cola & Cargill | “We are going global together with our partners in the market, however this round still focuses mostly in Latin America where we already started operations,” Mariana Vasconcelos, CEO & founder of São Paulo-based digital agtech startup A... |
06.06.2019 | Tariffs on Mexico could hit medtech hard | The medical device industry is bracing for a potential multi-million-dollar fallout from a proposed tariff on all products coming into the United States from Mexico.
The StarTribune of Minneapolis reports that the cost of these devices coul... |
13.12.2018 | Fitch Solutions rates Australia’s encryption laws a negative | Efforts to staunch a technology industry backlash over new encryption busting laws given to Australian security agencies have been dealt a body blow after the macro-research arm of global agency Fitch issued a sectoral warning of an “overal... |
- | African economies set for uneven post-coronavirus growth, says Fitch Solutions | Tom Collins
October 6th 2020 •
Africa •
Finance & Services
Growth will be uneven across sub-Saharan Africa in 2021 as countries pursue a wide variety of Covid-19 mitigation strategies amid global economic disruption.
Some sub-Saharan Af... |
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