. Many small businesses around the world, especially in Turkey and the Middle East, plan to boost investment and hiring, a survey showed on Wednesday, at a time when the global outlook
. The landscape for UK mortgage lenders will continue to be very fluid, Moody's Investors Service said in a new special comment. This will be against a backdrop of continued uncertainty over
Changes in regulation affect too Based on recent announcements in the UK budget, Moody's anticipates cuts in rent subsidies for tenants and in direct capital subsidies for English housing associations (HAs), Moody's
. Gov’t under fire over corporate tax hike plans to plug deficit Will MPs throw out the bill? The government has come under fire from all professional bodies over its plans to
. By Jeremy Gaunt, European Investment Correspondent (Reuters) With the global economy slowing, interest rates about as low as they can go, governments getting austere and banks being investigated for stress, it
. BY DR ALAN WARING “Those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad”, an ancient Greek saying goes. Judging by the growing eccentricities in the Cyprus property market, there
. By Dr Alan Waring Having highlighted in Part 1 the activities of rogue developers and lawyers in the inglorious Title Deeds/fraud mess in Cyprus, what about others in the cast of
. Has any one of our esteemed politicians and endless abundance of economists calculated the cost draft dodgers have on the economy? Had they bothered, the conclusion would be simple – it
Spending on automation spurs productivity To get an idea of how some U.S. textile mills can compete with developing-world rivals who pay far lower wages, roll a bowling ball down one of
. The supply-demand imbalance remains a key driver of the continued negative outlook for the property industry in the Arabian Gulf, Moody's Investors Service said in a new Industry Outlook. "The supply-demand
