Tradenews

EC Praises Hungary’s Economic Policy yet Soft-pedals on Early Adoption of the Euro [25 Feb 2009]  
The European Commission’s President Jose Manuel Barroso commended the Prime Minister of Hungary, Ferenc Gyurcsany while he received him in Brussels, the headquarters of the EU for his government’s pol  ...More
Tags: european commission     economic crisis     hungary    
Chinese Begin to Fish in the US Housing Market [26 Feb 2009]  
Several Chinese travel companies are embarked on a new mission, taking their Chinese clients for home shopping in the US. Sliding prices of the houses in the US are attracting many cash-rich Chinese i  ...More
Tags: chinese     US     china     economic crisis    
Iran and Serbia Move towards FTA [09 Mar 2009]  
During a meeting with the Iranian delegation headed by Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki, the Deputy Prime Minister of Serbia, Mladjan Dinkic stated that both countries had good and stable bilateral  ...More
Tags: economic     trade     serbian exports    
Iran Offers Solution for Japan to Overcome Economic Turbulence [05 Jun 2009]  
During the last week’s joint seminar by Iranian and Japanese chambers of commerce held in Tokyo, the chairman of Iran’s Chamber of Commerce, Industries, and Mines, Mohammad Nahavandian said that his c  ...More
Tags: Iran     Japan     Economic news    
Geithner Trip to Guarantee Investment Safety to the Mid-East [13 Jul 2009]  
The US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner in his two-day visit to the Middle East is likely to make serious effort to allay his country’s largest investor region’s fears over the US dollar’s volatili  ...More
Tags: investment     economic news    
Spain Continues to Be Haunted by Bankruptcy Bogey [06 Aug 2009]  
The Spanish companies and individuals filing bankruptcy or insolvency suits in the first two quarters of 2009 had already overtaken the total number of declarations of the previous year, reported the  ...More
Tags: Spain     bankruptcy     economic crisis    
Economists Differ on US Economic Recovery [05 Jan 2010]  
Nobel laureates Paul Krugman and Joseph Stiglitz along with economics professor Martin Feldstein of Harvard University sounded the alarm at the annual meeting of the American Economic Association in A  ...More
Tags: economy    economic recovery    Boston    US    Europe    
S-Korea Plans 2nd Capital City with Incentives to Investors [05 Jan 2010]  
The changed plans for Sejong city, located about 130kms south of Seoul, from administrative township to a science-business one will take off after a nod from the parliament with incentives for all est  ...More
Tags: S-Korea    PMO    FEZ     free economic zone    Sejong    
Ireland Steers towards Middle East to Expand Economic Ambit [02 Nov 2010]  
According to sources, a week-long trip by a high profile Irish trade delegation to Saudi Arabia and the UAE is expected to expand proximity to the Middle East in bilateral trade to politics. The dele  ...More
Tags: economic ambit     irish trade    
India, Japan sign FTA for 10 years [16 Feb 2011]  
Japan and India signed Wednesday a bilateral free trade agreement that would abolish duties on more than 90 percent of trade for 10 years.

Japanese Foreign Minister Seiji Maehara and Indian Com  ...More
Tags: economic cooperation    trade and investment    Japanese exports    
World Bank chief urges new role in Middle East [24 Mar 2011]  
The World Bank is rethinking its role in the Middle East and North Africa to tackle economic and social problems that sparked political unrest. The poverty-fighting institution needs to find some way  ...More
Tags: Robert Zoellick    World Bank conference    IMF     neo-liberal economic policies