While Analysts Argue Its Outlook For Growth, Emerging Markets Are Outperforming Developed Markets

Analysts have conflicting views about the emerging market’s (EM) growth outlook despite the fact that this sector has continued to grow faster than developed markets and produced higher returns this year. According to a UBS report, compared to developed markets 2.25 percent, the gross domestic product growth is around 4.5 percent year on year for…

Market Correction Likely Won’t Happen Because So Many Investors Are Expecting it, Says Goldman

Primarily because investors are so worried that one might be coming, there’s little chance of a stock market slide anytime soon essentially, according to a Goldman Sachs analysis. Forming its base on, at least in some part, because it’s been so long since one has occurred, correction calls have abounded lately. It has been 19…

Oxford, Home To One Of The World’s Best Universities, Wants To Lead Way In Electric Vehicle Charging

A project that is claimed to be the “first on-street charging pilot of its size in the world”, a program to install around 100 electric vehicle charging stations in Oxford is underway. With the plan to roll out the charging stations on residential streets in order to “help people go electric”, Oxford City Council said…

The Europeans Prove That Vacation Can Make You More Productive

Taking extra long holidays during summer is ne reputation that Europeans have. Leaving businesses closed or operating on summer hours, the term “fellesferie” refers to two or three weeks of vacation time workers collectively take in July in Norway. construction holidays called “bouwvak” for several weeks is taken by employees in the building industry in…

Changes To Financial Rules Should Be ‘Modest’ As They Have Made Economy Stronger: Yellen

In what was her fullest defense yet of the regulations enacted after the Great Recession, Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said that without impeding economic growth and any changes to these rules should remain modest, reforms put in place after the 2007 to 2009 crisis have strengthened the financial system. “The balance of research suggests…

Central Bankers May Be Concerned By The Death Of An Economic Model At Jackson Hole

Analysts think the death of a major economic concept could dominate discussions as central bankers gather at the annual Jackson Hole symposium on Friday. It shows that inflation and unemployment have a stable and inverse relationship and is known as Phillips curve, an economic concept developed by New Zealand economist William Phillips. However, this inverse…

Harvard Research Says That On Issues Of Climate Concerns Exxon Duped Public

According to Harvard University researchers writing in a peer-reviewed journal, even as Exxon Mobil Corp.’s own scientists determined man-made global warming was real and a serious threat, it spent the last 40 years undermining public concern over climate change. “Exxon Mobil contributed to advancing climate science — by way of its scientists’ academic publications —…

Index Says World Living Standards Improved For The First Time In 10 Years

According to report released by the Economist Intelligence Unit on Wednesday, global livability is finally showing some telltale signs of an improvement after 10 years of back-to-back slumps. But, continuing to threaten world living standards is the continued threat of terrorism that includes several high-profile attacks in Europe, said a EIU statement on the report. The…