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The Sri Lanka Institute of Marketing (SLIM) together with the Bucks University featured the 2012 award winners from Singapore of global business associations and chief marketing officers under the theme ‘Is The Party Over?’ at Galadari Hotel, where a select audience of 200 business and marketers attended the event. Some of the key points discussed ...
- Honoured for driving marketing in Sri Lanka (Category: Business)
- New tea industry model: By default? (Category: Business)
- Focus on the magic than logic (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka can be a top 30 country by 2015 (Category: Business)
Reuters: Indian Finance Minister P. Chidambaram sought on Monday to allay investor worries about an economy growing at its weakest pace in almost a decade by pledging to address their concerns over taxes, public finances and interest rates. In his first comments since becoming finance minister on July 31, Chidambaram said it was important to ...
- Indian Finance Minister urges officials not to hound taxpayers (Category: Business)
- Surprise industrial slump adds to India’s economic woes (Category: Business)
- India’s growth will be weaker than expected (Category: Business)
- May revise India growth forecast for 2011-12 to 6.5%: Moody’s (Category: Business)
LONDON (Reuters): Britain’s economy shrank far more than expected in the second quarter, battered by everything from an extra public holiday to government spending cuts and the neighbouring euro zone crisis. Finance minister George Osborne said figures released on Wednesday showed Britain had “deep-rooted economic problems,” adding that the slump in the second quarter was ...
- Indonesia’s tourism sector to focus on emerging markets (Category: Business)
- Growth is better than expected – CB (Category: Business)
- Growth gloom (Category: Business)
- Global 2012 rubber output forecast revised up: ANRPC (Category: Business)
By Shamil Samsul Mueen 1. Introduction The global financial crisis has raised imperative issues concerning the stability and reliability of existing financial systems. This has driven an extensive global re-examination on the competence of the existing financial architecture and the search
- HNB launches Al-Najah Islamic banking unit (Category: Business)
- Islamic finance: Challenges and opportunities (Category: Business)
- Islamic banking and finance advisory services to assist financial institutions (Category: Business)
Reuters: Loose global monetary conditions are stoking credit and asset price booms in some emerging markets that could lead to a new financial crisis, the Bank for International Settlements warned on Sunday. Such a boom-and-bust cycle might have severe global repercussions, not least due
- Bubble Fears (Category: Business)
- Demands on bank assets pose “vicious cycle” danger (Category: Business)
- Rebalancing (Category: Business)
- Islamic markets seen leading global trade volumes (Category: Business)
BEIJING (Reuters): Fresh fears over the global economy could unravel the benefit of cheaper oil prices and keep a lid on financial forecasts for the airline industry when its chiefs gather in China for their annual summit. An eight percent drop in oil prices this year has delivered a quick fix to an industry severely ...
- Mobius bets on further oil price increases (Category: Business)
- Global shipping downturn worse than 2008-China (Category: Business)
- Aviation industry leaders to meet in Beijing on Monday (Category: Business)
- Freight rate price war not an option: Maersk CEO (Category: Business)
SINGAPORE (Reuters): Asia’s economic growth probably troughed in the first quarter but a bounce-back may be muted, a Reuters poll showed. Although the fear factor has faded over Europe’s debt crisis and a slowing U.S. economy, both will still be a drag on growth rates in the region. Respondents in a quarterly survey of over ...
- China can easily boost consumtion to strengthen its economy: IMF (Category: Business)
- Asia growth to slow in 2012, no China crash seen (Category: Business)
- Airbus sees China, Asia as recession buffer (Category: Business)
- ‘Pessimism’ over Asia-Pacific growth: survey (Category: Business)
Citizens should make a noise The Central Bank’s former Assistant Governor and its long-time Director of Statistics, Dr. Anila Dias Bandaranaike, at a recently held exporters’ forum, expressed the view that the business community should make it their business to discuss, debate and deliver their views on economic policies being formulated by the country’s policy ...
- Flexible exchange rates and impact on exporters (Category: Business)
- Economic management and the way forward (Category: Business)
- A monetary constitution to add on to the legal constitution? (Category: Business)
NEW DELHI (Reuters): India’s businesses, already facing high interest rates and a global economic slowdown, worry that the finance ministry will ask them to shoulder a bigger tax burden in the budget set for release on Friday to trim the fiscal deficit. After a drubbing in recent state elections, the government has little room to ...
- Obama unveils big spending election-year budget (Category: Business)
- Growth to slow down in 2012 –Central Bank (Category: Breaking News)
- India says fiscal deficit target will be hard to meet (Category: Business)
- IMF welcomes Sri Lanka’s reforms announced in the budget (Category: Breaking News)
Reuters: The Congress party’s drubbing in assembly elections proved beyond doubt that its populist politics failed to resonate with voters, and yet investors and consumers alike are bracing for more of the same from the besieged ruling party. Hemmed in by maverick allies and the fallout from a slew of corruption scandals, the Congress party-led ...
- Indian Govt. suspends foreign supermarket entry after backlash (Category: Business)
- Rahul Gandhi may succeed as Congress chief in weeks — report (Category: Business)
- India chooses President, reforms seen on agenda (Category: Business)
- Ailing matriarch Sonia puts Gandhi dynasty at crossroads (Category: Business)
Reuters: Leading economies told Europe it must put up extra money to fight its debt crisis if it wants more help from the rest of the world, piling pressure on Germany to drop its opposition to a bigger European bailout fund. Euro zone countries pledged on Sunday, at a meeting of finance leaders from the ...
- G20 moves to line up huge rescue deal for April (Category: Business)
- G20 pushes for extra steps from Europe on crisis (Category: Business)
- IMF seeks more funds; G20 to discuss (Category: Business)
- Euro zone crisis set to dominate G20 meeting in Paris (Category: Business)
Following is the address delivered by Senior Minister for International Monetary Cooperation Dr. Sarath Amunugama at the fourth South Asia Economic Summit (SAES IV) Plenary Session: In the aftermath of the global economic crisis, there has been a noticeable shift in economic clout, moving from the USA and the debt-plagued countries of the Eurozone, to ...
- Asia Pacific trade and investment (Category: Business)
- Developing Asia’s growth to moderate amid global uncertainty, says ADB (Category: Business)
- Challenging times for Asia Pacific (Category: Business)
- Achieving economic goals amidst global challenges (Category: Business)
LONDON (Reuters): European stocks were flat on Friday, losing early steam ahead of mid-day U.S. employment data but the euro clung to gains from a two-cent rally after euro zone policymakers moved to shore up struggling banks to fend off a financial crisis. Aggressive liquidity measures unveiled
- Market Jitters (Category: Business)
- Regulator warns banking union could split Europe (Category: Business)
- European stocks rise ahead of ECB meeting (Category: Business)
- Global stocks retreat after Swiss move; euro jumps (Category: Business)
Financial stability risks have risen sharply in recent months, as slower economic growth, market turbulence in Europe, and the credit downgrade of the United States have weighed on the global financial system, according to new analysis by the IMF. Financial markets have begun to question the ability of policymakers to command broad political support for ...
- Financial stability risks have increased substantially (Category: Business)
- IMF marks down global growth forecast, sees risk on rise (Category: Business)
- Credit boom stokes risks in emerging markets – BIS (Category: Business)
- Global economic outlook slowly improving but remains fragile (Category: Business)
Reuters) – If history is any guide, another oil-induced recession may be just around the corner, at least for the United States and some of the other developed economies. Every time that the cost of oil relative to global economic output has hit current levels — and that’s even after sharp falls in spot prices ...
- Asia’s economic growth slipping into neutral (Category: Business)
- Asian stocks up on Europe optimism, credit (Category: Business)
- US growth easing after strong 4th quarter: Fed Chief Bernanke (Category: Business)
- Morgan Stanley says prefers gold, silver in 2012 as economy slows (Category: Business)
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