. Is there or isn’t there a youth unemployment crisis? By Oren Laurent President, Banc De Binary Blogging for Reuters, Zachary Karabell has dismissed the recent headlines about a global youth unemployment crisis and argues that young people are making a rational choice to hold out for their ideal job. So are the warnings from

. Xi’s China flexes its muscles Marcuard's Market update by GaveKal Research Having celebrated Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s bold economic reform agenda, we must now take stock of a less appealing element of the new regime: a more determined and muscular effort to throw China’s weight around Asia. Beijing’s declaration on Saturday of a new

. SMEs drive Australia economy By Oren Laurent President, Banc De Binary American Express launched its Shop Small campaign across Australia this month to promote small businesses and encourage customers to support their local communities. In today’s world of mega-markets and chain stores, can small businesses really still make a valuable contribution to developed economies?

The Risk Watch Column The Troika’s title deeds demands The Risk Watch Column By Dr Alan Waring The Title Deeds Scandal has dogged the Cyprus property market for years and remains unresolved. This column has been obliged to return to this suppurating issue many times over the past nine years to air not only the

. The past few days we have enjoyed a relative lull in petty political bickering by immature party leaders, perhaps out of respect to the man who has shown levels of political grandeur and individual humility, at a time when ambition, selfishness and greed seem to have overtaken all else. Even the civil servants’ trade

. What are the best options for Cypriot and East Med gas exports? Taking the best case for the gas price and the lowest possible cost is not a scenario any seasoned investor will accept By Adam Lomas, Castor & Partners The discovery of gas and the potential for more discoveries in the eastern Mediterranean

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON BRITISH IDEALISM INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON BRITISH IDEALISM Strengthening the intellectual ties between Cyprus and Oxford Dr. Stamatoula Panagakou of the University of Cyprus and Dr. W. J. Mander of the University of Oxford recently co-organised an international conference on ‘British Idealism and the Concept of the Self’ at Harris Manchester College, Oxford.

. By George Papanicolaou In view of the political decision to permit the operation of casinos in Cyprus, a decision which I agree with, I will state a few important points of the UK law (Gambling Act 2005) that the Cyprus government should take into account in the development of casino legislation. The following provisions

. By Dr Andrestinos Papadopoulos After meeting with UN Special Advisor Alexander Downer in New York on November 1, the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon issued a statement which created a negative climate in Cyprus. He called on the two sides to set a date for a meeting between the Turkish Cypriot and Greek Cypriot

. They came, they saw (they conquered) and left. But just as they opened the Pandora’s Box of all the ills of Cyprus, stacked up over the years, the Troikans were scared of dealing with the trade unions. How else can anyone explain the fact that despite the forceful merger of Popular Laiki into Bank