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...
Following four years of working on the research project to develop community-based tourism and local tourism planning in Malta (‘Developing tourism in Malta and Gozo through its people and culture – meet the locals’), Julian Zarb was awarded a...
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...
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...
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...
Maltco Lotteries have launched a new game, Superstar, with the first inaugural draw taking place on Friday, October 5. Superstar is a unique numerical game of chance featuring a double matrix form, in which players can play by choosing at least five...
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...
Overall positive picture for Chancellor
Competitors concerned about impact on their own sectors
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...
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...
A healthier diet based on artificially synthesised foods and improvements in medical care will see life expectancy rise over the next four decades. According to Eurostat data, this will see the number of 60+ persons double from the current 11 per cent...
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...
3.7% growth forecast for 2018
Growth will slow to 2% by end of 2019
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...
Commissioner had flagged user rules
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...
EIT InnoEnergy, Europe’s sustainable energy engine supported by the EIT, has announced the cut-off date for applications to its 2018 investment round for supporting revolutionary, cleantech and sustainable energy innovations. Maltese innovators looking...
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...
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...
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...
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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...
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...
The future is uncertain and crystal-ball predictions are only the stuff of fairy tales. But in business circles, some companies are capable of identifying future trends with strong potential and then riding them to success. One such company is Business...
Economic Trends show a mixed picture
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...
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