The AfCFTA is set to be implemented at the same time as the globe tackles post-Covid-19 recovery. Deeping continental integration can help to boost economies, particularly if stemming illicit financial flows is prioritised
A grim outlook for the US economy from the Federal Reserve and signs of a slowing in China and Germany has sent world stocks tumbling.
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/ 6 September 2011
Wall Street braced for losses on Tuesday after world stock markets took a beating over fears that the US economy was heading back into recession.
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/ 30 November 2008
We are in a new era of state capitalism where the regulator is also the investor, writes Kevin Davie.
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/ 23 October 2008
The financial crisis affords us an opportunity to rethink our catastrophic ecological trajectory. George Monbiot reports.
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/ 22 October 2008
To get a handle on these problems, start on the financial side and two big "facts" about banking and money.
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/ 16 October 2008
It is also buying a Danish online classifieds site, dba.dk, and a vehicles website, bilbasen.dk, for $390-million.
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/ 15 October 2008
The global slowdown could affect mining, writes Lynley Donnelly.
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/ 15 October 2008
Huge estimated losses released by the IMF strengthen calls for urgent policy changes to restore confidence in the financial sector.
As the global markets have gone into meltdown, South Africa is relatively isolated — but only relatively.
The world’s financial markets remain at the eye of a perfect economic storm. The architects of this almighty financial sell-off? The banks themselves.
The time has come for people to stop buying monthly bus and train tickets and rather put their money in gold.
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/ 26 September 2008
Meltdown Monday and the astonishing four days that followed saved British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, but were of no help to Thabo Mbeki.
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/ 19 September 2008
Who’s to blame? Indebted Americans? Alan Greenspan? Slack credit rating agencies? Greedy and overpaid chief executives?
Share prices dropped sharply on the world’s financial markets early last week amid fears that the year-long credit crunch is entering a dangerous new