by bizadmin | Jul 11, 2012 | Europe, Featured, Investment, News, South Africa, United Kingdom, USA
Washington – On his first day as president of the World Bank Group, Jim Yong Kim stressed the role of the 188-member organisation in helping address global growth risks and providing development assistance. The World Bank has an economic and moral imperative to...
by bizadmin | Jun 22, 2012 | Europe, Featured, Investment, News, USA
New research by two American experts has demolished the key belief of efficient market theory, which several generations of students were taught as the foundation of their investment skills, that high reward is the consequence of accepting greater risk. Their study of...
by bizadmin | Jun 14, 2012 | Featured, News, USA
ING Bank announced today that it has entered into a Settlement Agreement with U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) and Deferred Prosecution Agreements with the Department of Justice, the United States Attorney’s Office...
by bizadmin | May 30, 2012 | Featured, News, South Africa
Pretoria – South Africa’s economic outlook remains modest, says the Reserve Bank in its Monetary Policy Review (MPR). “The economic outlook for South Africa remains modest with a gradual recovery in domestic demand and supply expected, barring further...
by bizadmin | Apr 17, 2012 | Featured, News
Pretoria – Newly appointed World Bank president Dr Jim Yong Kim will seek a new alignment of the World Bank group with a rapidly changing world. The bank announced on Monday that it had selected the Korean-American global health expert to become its next...
by bizadmin | Apr 14, 2012 | China, Featured, News
China is slowing. Now the second-largest economy, the East Asian giant has to ease its pace to keep from stumbling in its quest for prosperity. The National Bureau for Statistics released numbers today showing annual GDP growth in Q1 2012 of 8.1%, a continuation of...
