[escenic_image id="554927"]If a really close friend advises buying shares in a company without offering any other details, a good investor would unearth them somehow, no matter who that friend is…
[escenic_image id="555217"]The current financial crisis described by Alan Greenspan as ‘once in a century credit tsunami’ has shaken the very foundations of the capitalist financial system. An urge…
[escenic_image id="555016"]In war and in business there is such a thing as a tactical retreat: a strategic pullback in the lull before the storm. And Bagdad’s apparent concession to Kurds in regards…
[escenic_image id="556294"]Manifestations of the global economic crisis began to unfold in early October 2007 and since then the crisis has been affecting the economies of most countries of the world…
[escenic_image id="555299"]Nations should think of this recession as a backdraft (if you missed the 1991 movie starring Robert De Niro, that occurs when a fire sucks up all the oxygen until…
[escenic_image id="555316"]Gulf stock markets suffered severe losses during 2008 with a loss average of 45%, against the backdrop of the global economic crisis and its repercussions in the countries…
[escenic_image id="555345"]Do not be fooled by the recent surge in share prices. The depths and breadth of the current recession is as yet unfathomable for even the shrewdest of economists and…
[escenic_image id="555038"]With the clear intention to prevent the reproduction of the last century’s economic debacle, the leaders of the 20 richest world economies met in London on April 2, 2009 in…
[escenic_image id="556077"]The theory of decoupling was discredited last fall when China followed the rest of the world into the recession’s abyss. But hold on. Writing in Newsweek magazine this week…
The depiction of a land-grabbing colonialist power turning on its weaker neighbour feels aimed at Israel, its advocates say. Yet supporters of Palestine should be up in arms, too.
US envoy to Syria Tom Barrack used his latest visit to Beirut to deliver what was, in effect, an ultimatum to the Lebanese government, though he took care not to present it as such
The moves by France, the UK and other Western states appear to be more about appeasing domestic critics with symbolic gestures rather than a genuine attempt to change Israel's behaviour