Aligning Values with Value: The Business Guide to ESG Investing
In a world where corporate responsibility is no longer a choice but a necessity, businesses are seeking ways to align their profit-making strategies with...
New payments infrastructure a priority for BRICS
Building an effective independent settlement and payment infrastructure is a priority in the financial track of BRICS, Roman Babushkin, minister-counsellor and deputy chief of...
US-EU: Big Trouble Coming – BRICS and Oil
As of late Tuesday evening, August 8, 2023, countries expressing their intent to join BRICS account for 60% of known global oil/gas reserves. At...
FT: Tens of billions are the losses of Western business in Russia
European companies have suffered at least €100bn in direct losses from their operations in Russia since last year, according to analysis by the Financial...
Asia Times: The difficult reality for the US is economic dependence on China
On the one hand, U.S. policy aims to constrain China’s economic, political, and military development because it has now become the United States’ chief...
Fitch downgrades US rating
Fitch Ratings downgraded its US debt rating from the highest AAA rating to AA+, citing “a steady deterioration in standards of governance,” CNN informed.
The...
France Looks to Block US Purchase of Velan’s Nuclear Business
Velan is due to be bought by Flowserve as part of bigger deal, but French-backed fund is expected to take over Segault SAS soon,...
America’s sanctions madness – many restrictions and a little use
America’s love of sanctions will be its downfall, stresses ‘Foreign Policy’. In the past two decades sanctions have become the go-to foreign-policy tool of...
International law against confiscating Russian state assets frozen by the West
United States and Europe could breach and set a dangerous precedent, experts say. The United States are even ready to change their laws.
The United...
The era of open commerce is over: Who will dominate the deglobalised world?
Belt and Road is China’s version of globalization. Belt and Road came at the end of a distinct period in modern economic history –...