Consulting company EY said that Chinese investment in European companies almost tripled in 2016, growing to $ 85.8 billion. Germany has received especially generous cash flow as investments in the country were almost 24 higher ($ 12.6 billion) than in 2015. According to experts, Germany has become...

Adapting blockchain technology could reduce operating costs for the banks and investments firms, take over some back-office management, while the failure on the front of wide-spread acceptance of the technology, will reap no benefit. An Accenture report stated that the technology of Blockchain...

Ever since the rally in global stocks and dollar following Donald Trump's victory in the U.S. elections, gold prices have been under pressure. And reflected in the recovery of gold prices is the scaling back of optimism that emerged shortly after the U.S. elections, says a report from UBS.  ...

With a better-than-expected set of growth figures for the fourth quarter, the British economy showed no signs of losing momentum at the end of 2016.   Preliminary figures by the Office for National Statistics showed on Thursday morning that the U.K.'s gross domestic product rose 0.6 percent...

According to the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), for the first time in the history of the country, the United States has been demoted from a full democracy to a flawed democracy.   The firm uses a number of indices to identify how democratic a country is. Such indices are marked on the...

Even as U.S. protectionism threatens to hurt trade across the region and dent external demand, in a positive sign for the export-reliant economy, Japan's exports rose for the first time in 15 months in December on strong sales of electronics and car parts.   Compared with a 1.2 percent...

At the meeting of 26 January Eurogroup is going discuss Greece’s progress on its way to economic recovery. At the meeting, the ministers will talk over all possible risks that may hinder the country to repay the bailout loan. Greece's current debt amounts to € 320 billion. This is almost twice...

The farmers and agricultural trade unions of the U.S. are facing “new threats” as President Trump signs out of the deal, while others see China taking its place in the deal. The U.S. President Trump’s step of quitting the TTP deal, which erstwhile provided the U.S. farmers a market of “$62...

Experts’ opinion asks both China and the U.S. to maintain “positive trade relations” for avoiding troubles. Musing over the issues of “protectionist” along with the “anti-China stance” of President Trump, the People's Daily, which is an “overseas edition of the state”, reported that the trade...