[escenic_image id="5587211"]On 29 June 2010 Taiwan and mainland China signed a historic bilateral agreement that paves the way for closer economic cross-Strait ties. The Economic Co-operation…

[escenic_image id="5584039"]It’s all but official. Some of the world’s biggest oil producers grouped in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) face higher future energy costs now that cheap natural gas…

[escenic_image id="5579402"]The year is 1988. The Soviet Union lives on and the Berlin Wall has not yet fallen. Two years before, the great historian Paul Kennedy published a book (The Rise and Fall…

[escenic_image id="5522874"]When Group of 20 leaders met in London in April last year in the teeth of the global economic crisis, they displayed impressive common purpose, pledging rapid and…

[escenic_image id="5567722"]The Middle East has emerged from the recent global economic crisis in better shape than most other regions. It successfully maintained positive economic output throughout…

[escenic_image id="5562312"]A conspicuous if not shocking feature of today’s world is its unambiguously upside-down state. While various industrialized countries find themselves on the verge of…

[escenic_image id="5557825"]Return on Equity (RoE) is one of the most well used metrics employed by listed companies and investors as a method of communicating whether there is a “reasonable rate of…

[escenic_image id="5557809"]In a global economy still inching its way out of a recession, Greece’s recent debt crisis has imbued trade floors with a fresh wave of uncertainty. Even with a $1 trillion…

[escenic_image id="5550355"]“The Balkan region produces more history than it can consume.” Even though one may find Winston Churchill’s famous observation unpalatable by today’s code of political…

[escenic_image id="5526390"]The EU does not quite match the American sense of mission. Even when the European heads of state give their history-laden speeches, they do not cast Brussels as the…