Emerging Market Crisis Series

Budget shows treasury is desperately short of ideas to fix South Africa's economic woes

Mar 01, 2020 13:09 pm UTC| Insights & Views Economy

At the core of this years budget proposals from South Africas national treasury is the admission that national debt is no longer expected to stabilise. In previous years, bar one brief exception, budgets and medium-term...

The growing impact of coronavirus on the global economy

Mar 01, 2020 13:08 pm UTC| Insights & Views Economy

As of February 2020, the number of people infected with the coronavirus Covid-19 has surpassed 80,000, with nearly 2,700 deaths. Efforts to contain the outbreak have led to full or partial quarantines of several Chinese...

Could coronavirus really trigger a recession?

Mar 01, 2020 12:58 pm UTC| Insights & Views Economy

Fears are growing that the new coronavirus will infect the U.S. economy. A major U.S. stock market index posted its biggest two-day drop on record, erasing all the gains from the previous two months; companies including...

Global Geopolitics Series

Sanctions, a failing economy and coronavirus may cause Iran to change its involvement in Syria

Mar 01, 2020 12:54 pm UTC| Insights & Views Economy

Irans emergence as a hot zone for the coronavirus further complicates that countrys relationships with its neighbours at a time when its economy is sliding deeper into recession. US President Donald Trumps maximum...

Sustainable start-ups should consider corporate venture capital first

Mar 01, 2020 12:29 pm UTC| Insights & Views Economy

Urgent issues like the climate crisis, environmental degradation threatening millions of species, social inequality and other challenges mean that the global economy needs to immediately transform itself to become...

One million Britons will be on zero-hour contracts by end of 2020

Mar 01, 2020 12:28 pm UTC| Insights & Views Economy

A first glance at the latest commentary from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) on the UK labour market in the last quarter of 2019, and everything looks rosy: employment is up 1%, unemployment is down 5.4% on the...

U.S. Treasuries surge ahead of PCE and personal spending indices, FOMC member Bullard's speech

Feb 28, 2020 12:48 pm UTC| Commentary Economy

The U.S. Treasuries surged during Fridays evening session ahead of the countrys personal consumption expenditure and personal spending index for the month of January, scheduled to be released today by 13:30GMT. Also,...