The currency markets saw plenty of action this week, with the US dollar volatile over speculation about who would take over as US treasury secretary, writes Tom Tragett, editor of ForexProfitAlert.co.uk. At the start of …
Now forgive me for being a sceptic, but isn’t the downtrodden consumer being squeezed on all sides? Salary expectations are being pegged back by the threat of off-shoring jobs to lower-wage countries (such as India …
Improbable as it may sound, says Marc Gunther on CNNMoney.com, the latest addition to the McDonald’s menu is a 15-minute exercise DVD. The initiative is an effort “to get out in front of escalating social …
After first-quarter results showing a 19% fall in subscribers, against forecasts of a 4% increase, investors might want to write off DirecTV (DTV, $17.46) as just a “promising underperformer”, says Jack Hough on SmartMoney.com. They …
The Financial Times on the 9th September 1993, almost 15-years ago, published an article by Kevin Done, headlined ‘Lopez preaches gospel of third industrial revolution’. Jose Ignacio Lopez de Arriortua at that time had recently …
The slowdown in growth rates is an expression of macroeconomic stabilisation. Turkey’s real GDP increased by 4.8% year on year in the first quarter of this year, slowing from 9.0% in 2004 and an average …