The current economic developments, the opportunities and challenges facing the business environment and the experience of investors active here were the focal point of an event organised by the Finance Ministry with the support of the Presidency of the Republic of Cyprus and the Cyprus Investment Promotion Agency (CIPA). The investment outlook session –
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Leading recruitment agency, GRS Recruitment, will be exhibiting for the sixth consecutive year at the iFX International Expo next week, where thousands of visitors will make a beeline to find out about job prospects in the lucrative forex industry. The event, taking place from May 23 to 25, will be held at the Palais
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As widely reported over this past weekend, a large-scale “Ransomware” cyber attack was executed on Friday that has impacted a large number of businesses and users through the “WannaCry” or “WannaCrypt” virus. Because this attack targets the Microsoft Windows operating system, John Raven, President of hosting solutions provider Newtek Technology Solutions, said that scheduled
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By Jameel Ahmad, VP Market Research at FXTM If investors were looking for a reason to sell the Pound at its recent elevated levels, they found encouragement this week when the Bank of England (BoE) downgraded on Thursday its growth forecast for the UK economy in 2017. Although a growth downgrade from 2% to 1.9%
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. Marcuard's Market update by GaveKal Dragonomics By Anatole Kaletsky With the populist, anti-EU tide now clearly reversing, first in Holland, then on Sunday night in France and finally in September’s German elections, investors can put to rest their worries about a breakup of the euro or the European Union and focus instead on the
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. The most important message coming out of the French elections on Sunday is undoubtedly that Emmanuel Macron simply demolished the conventional political establishment, while dinosaurs on the right chose to support nationalist Marine Le Pen, simply out of spite, and the hard-line left resorted to their tactics of long-gone days, by declaring strikes.
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. • The election of centrist Emmanuel Macron in the presidential elections is likely to bolster France’s creditworthiness. If Macron can implement his agenda of tight fiscal policy and structural reforms, this would support fiscal and debt sustainability. • However, to achieve its policy objectives En Marche! will need to build a coalition with sufficient
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. By Dr Olga Kandinskaia Having spent 20-plus years in business education, I am too familiar with the existing gap between the academic educational content and companies’ needs. In the highly dynamic business environment of today, it is a challenge for academics to keep pace with the latest trends. And that’s why leading business schools
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. By Dr Andrestinos N. Papadopoulos, a.h. An event of major importance was the signing ceremony in Nicosia on April 5 for the exploration and production contract for offshore Block 10 between Qatar Petroleum, ExxonMobil and the Cyprus government. Before the ceremony, President Nicos Anastasiades received the president and CEO of Qatar Petroleum, Saad Sherida
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Exploration plans by oil and gas majors Total and ENI will go ahead as palnned, with the French company expected to start drilling in July and the Italians by the end of the year or early 2018, Energy Minister Yiorgos Lakkotrypis told a closed-door meeting of the House Energy and Trade committee. He said
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