CYPRUS: Investment funds assets drop 2%

The total assets of the Cyprus investment funds (CIFs) have decreased by 2% to EUR 2.908 bln in September, compared with EUR 2.963 bln in June, according to the investment funds quarterly

US economy readying for December liftoff

. By Oren Laurent President, Banc De Binary Current global conditions have created an atmosphere conducive to a Fed rate hike in December. However, the vice-chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank, Stanley

Wicksell and capital misallocation

. Marcuard’s Market update by GaveKal Dragonomics Accepted opinion among investors is that, when it eventually comes, the Federal Reserve’s first interest rate increase in almost nine and a half years will

DOING BUSINESS: Singapore is the best country

 * Cyprus improves in ‘Doing Business’ report, mainly on much-needed reforms *   Singapore is once again the best country for doing business, with a swift and transparent judicial system, just 150

Is Angela Merkel on the way out?

. By Dr. Jim Leontiades Cyprus International Institute of Management Henry Kissinger’s question some years ago, “If I want to talk to Europe who do I call?” today has an answer. It

The limits of Xi Jinping’s grand plan

. Marcuard’s Market update by GaveKal Dragonomics As China’s growth slowdown deepens, making even the government’s reduced growth target of 6.5% a year for the rest of this decade look less and