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Global trade growth is not picking up

LONDON | World trade volumes –for both goods and services– have risen by less than global GDP over the past four years. This is an unprecedented outcome in post WW2 history, UBS analysts point out.


Yellen

FED keeps the door open in July

LONDON | Barclays | The US dollar strengthened after the FOMC left the door open for a September move, although it did not provide any strong signal for the timing of the first hike.


Oil and gas companies

Oil and gas: The struggle to stay relevant

July 24, 2015 | UBS | Sector performance since crude began to slide again has, unsurprisingly, been poor: EU integrateds are down 11% since the May peak, underperforming the wider market by 11%, and the US peers down 10%.  


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Et tu Singapore? Another central bank suffocates the economy?

July 22, 2015 | By Benjamin Cole via Marcus NunesHistorinhas | Singapore is every economist’s favorite nation, for its often free-market or price-sensitive approach to government. And the city-state has boomed for generations, verifying economists are right. But now, reports The Economist in its July 18 issue, Singapore’s productivity is dying on the vine, much like that of the United States, or Europe.