Rum would be used by Cuba to pay off its Soviet-era debt.   Using rum and pharmaceuticals instead of money, a debt of $270 million is planned to be paid to the Czech Republic by the cash-strapped island nation.   The Czech finance ministry stressed that it would like at least part of...

With the aim of avoiding the "national disaster" of a "hard Brexit", Scotland will publish proposals very soon for how it can remain in the European single market after Britain leaves the European Union, the Scottish government said very recently.   In order to kick off two years of exit...

While launches during the third quarter slumped to lows not seen since the first quarter of 2009, according to data from Hedge Fund Research (HFR), hedge fund liquidations in 2016 are on track to hit the highest number since the financial crisis.   The total amount of funds under management...

Investment bank Goldman Sachs wrote in a note on Friday that an extension of this year's price rally in base metals and bulk commodities in China into next year will depend on these five important factors. The bank also listed the five factors.   Property demand...

Analysts are observing significant increase in bond yields around the world, similar to that happened during the global financial crisis. This trend is making companies in Asia and Latin America the most vulnerable, since their debt burden has significantly increased during the last decade. This is...

It would not be until the second half of next year that it won’t result in demand exceeding supply, while speeding up the re-balancing of the global oil market, OPEC said its agreement to cut production.   OPEC said in its monthly report on Wednesday that the reduction of global inventories...

British Prime Minister Theresa May leaves no hope to achieve the most favorable conditions for "divorce" with the European Union. London would like to simultaneously maintain access to the single market and to strengthen national control over migration. However, German Chancellor Angela Merkel is...

Adrian Mowat, JPMorgan's chief Asian and emerging market strategist is of the opinion that investors should look to counter-intuitive investments in China and Russia to play on the possibility of a trade war under President-elect Donald Trump.   "We could be spending the first half of 2017...