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New Tivoli bids to compete with big industry names
In the early 1960s, SsangYong Motors was the only Korean automobile manufacturer focusing on off-road vehicles with the assembly of Jeeps for the US army. Since the turn of the decade, and through becoming a subsidiary of the Indian conglomerate...
#HelpThemRead charity drive by Remax & Friends
Earlier this month, the Remax & Friends Foundation launched a charity drive to purchase reading equipment for more than 67 visually impaired children, thus enabling them to read. The drive is being supported by the President’s Trust and the National...
Competition dynamics of the mobile telephony sector
The Maltese mobile telephony sector has made significant strides over the past years, especially in bringing new products to the market and in rolling out infrastructure to supply improved mobile broadband services on a nationwide scale. Rising...
Advantages, disadvantages of the increasing use of nominee accounts
The European finance industry underwent a big revolution in the past decade, with the apex being reached earlier this year with the introduction of the MiFID II Directive. These changes have left financial institutions with a more challenging task at...
Receding trade fears propel stocks to six-month peak
The US dollar rebounded and world shares hit a more than six-month high yesterday after China’s moves to boost domestic consumption bolstered a rally driven by investor bets the latest US-Sino trade salvoes were unlikely to dent global growth. The US...
The economics of self-responsibility
In Malta, like in most countries in the rest of the world, we tend to blame society, culture, the fact that we are a small country, institutions such as the Catholic Church or the Law Courts, the government and whoever else we can think of, for any...
Strengthening institutional links leading to trade growth between Malta and India
Welcoming guests to the Malta-India Business Forum, Frank V. Farrugia, president of the Malta Chamber of Commerce, Enterprise and Industry, said that cooperation between Malta and India was translating into a better exploitation of Malta’s geographical...
Stocks climb as trade concerns ease, dollar slips
World stock markets rallied yesterday, while the US dollar slipped, amid expectations that fresh US and Chinese tariffs on reciprocal imports will be less harsh than feared. Still, investors remained cautious about the next steps in the US-Sino trade...
Remedial paths for the Brazilian economy
In one sentence, the Brazilian economy seems to be suffering from lack of productivity yet an excessive public sector. On the one hand, the run-of-the-mill performance of productivity in Brazil in recent decades has limited its GDP growth potential. On...
The largest capitalised company on the MSE
Both indices calculated by the Malta Stock Exchange (MSE), the MSE Equity Price Index and the MSE Total Return Index, are weighted by the market capitalisation of each of the various constituents of the indices, namely all the companies whose equities...
World stocks bat aside trade war fears
Global equities rallied for a second straight day yesterday while safe-haven assets such as US bonds and the Japanese yen slipped to multi-week lows as investors bet the escalating US-China trade spat would inflict less damage than feared. The...
Shipping movements - September 20, 2018
The following ships are expected in Malta: The SC Mara from Suez Canal to Tanger Med, the APL Gwangyang from Genoa to Beirut (both CMA CGM Malta Agency Ltd), the Maersk Laberinto from Malaga to Genoa (Thomas Smith & Co. Ltd), the MV Eurocargo Malta...
Various equities trade higher
The MSE Equity Price Index climbed 0.84% to 4,346.228 points as various equities ended the day in positive territory while only Mapfre Middlesea trended lower. Meanwhile, trading in GO continued to dominate activity as it accounted for nearly 60% of...
Farsons cautiously optimistic of steady growth
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US-China trade war steps up a notch
Following Donald Trump’s newest round of tariffs on Chinese imports, whereby the US has imposed duties on more than half of all Chinese imports, Beijing retaliated by slapping new tariffs on $60bn worth of American goods, while scolding the US...
New regulatory regime for insurance distributors
With the D-Day of October 1, 2018 fast approaching, now is the time for distributors of insurance products to take stock of the situation in order to ensure that they are equipped to deal with the new obligations being imposed upon them by the EU’s...
Brussels Airport named overall winner at World Routes 2018 Marketing Awards
The annual World Routes Marketing Awards recently took place at the China Import and Export Fair in Guangzhou. Nominated and judged by airlines, the ceremony is highly regarded in the aviation industry for recognising the outstanding marketing services...