OECD-established corporate tax deal could impact thousands of local jobs
In the last decade, the Internet of Things (IoT) has evolved from an emerging technology to one of the world’s most in-demand tech verticals. IoT as a technology has been maturing over the past few years and seems poised for continued growth in Malta.
SMEs from Germany are repeatedly venturing into internationalisation – for example, by buying or selling goods abroad, opening foreign branches or setting up operations in other countries. There are numerous factors for these measures, first and...
Beware the risks of stagflation and its economic effects
US Federal Reserve (Fed) policymakers expressed greater concern about the spike in US inflation at their meeting earlier this month and raised the possibility of ending bond purchases sooner than they planned if high prices persisted. Most officials at...
Extended sales and COVID-19 have dampened usual Black Friday shopping frenzy
The COMECE (Catholic Church in the European Union) Secretariat recently published a paper entitled ‘A Financial System Serving the Common Good in Times of Systemic Change’. The need to reform the international financial system has been on the agenda...
There is guarded optimism, but it all depends on how the pandemic pans out
Shortage of paper cups, bags and boxes as demand far outstrips supply
Appointed by Trump, he will continue overseeing the economy's recovery
Rival suppliers battle over a lucrative hospital procurement contract
Kristian Zarb Adami on an industry that is rising despite a late start
Unemployment in October dropped by 1,860 from the same month in 2020 to reach 1,254, the National Statistics Office said on Monday. Unemployment decreased across all age groups for both men and women. The number of persons with a disability who were...
ITA needs to be financially viable amid low-cost airlines
Credit rating agency confirms Malta’s ‘A+’ score, maintains its stable outlook
Eurozone inflation rose to 4.1 per cent in October from 3.4 per cent in September, broadly in line with the estimate published on October 29. This is the highest rate since July 2008. Excluding energy, food, alcohol and tobacco, core inflation advanced...
World's 3rd largest economy shrinks 0.8% in the three months to September
Last week, I came across this statement made by a Spaniard and reported in a section of the UK press. “If health and education are a social service in Spain, why not housing?”. This same statement can be made about Malta as well. Why should housing not...
A global shortage in microchips reveals just how fragile our global economy is
Food is what is mostly pushing prices up
What began as a one-day event is gradually being spread across November
Gradual change would let system shift to low carbon with less disruption
The US Labour Department reported that US consumer prices increased by more than expected during October, lifting the annual rate of price growth to its highest level in over 30 years. The consumer price index jumped by 0.9 per cent in October, well...
The modern start-up culture has turned into a harmful fashion. Alarmingly, it produces up to 80 per cent of doomed cases. Over two-thirds of the entrepreneurs failing at their first business get largely broke, traumatised and, in many countries, even...
China on Thursday held a subdued version of its annual "Single's Day" shopping spree, shorn of the usual boasting on sales volume as the country's chastened e-commerce sector kept a lower profile amid a government crackdown on platforms such as those...
Chamber of Commerce fears oversupply and low occupancy
0.7% fall in exports from Europe’s top economy in September
Online lecture held recently by the China Cultural Centre in Malta
The way we discuss the budget needs to change.
In a widely expected move, the US Federal Reserve announced last Wednesday that it will start rolling back its unprecedented COVID-19 stimulus programme later this month. This marks the Fed’s first major pull-back since the programme was launched in...
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