The eurozone’s dominant service sector expanded much slower than expected in December but its manufacturing sector, which led a large part of the economic recovery, grew faster than thought, surveys show. Worryingly for policymakers, a large part of the strength was on the back of a very positive performance in Germany and a supportive France,…
Portugal is under pressure to seek a European bailout due to concerns Lisbon’s debt woes could drag down Spain and trigger an even greater crisis. The Financial Times Deutschland said some states wanted Portugal to seek aid in order to avoid Spain, the fifth largest EU economy, from having to follow suit. “If Portugal were…
Western energy firms are poised to strike deals in Turkmenistan as the Central Asian state opens up its lucrative oil and gas reserves after years of isolation. Chevron Corp, Total and TXOil Ltd, a company chaired by a younger brother of former US president George W. Bush, are among those pursuing deals in the desert…
After two days of talks, the G20 has ended up at the lowest common denominator. An agreement to develop “indicative guidelines” to help identify large current account imbalances that risk destabilising the global economy was the bare minimum expected of the leaders of the world’s 20 major economies. By giving finance ministers the task of…
China cannot continue to resist upward market pressure on its yuan currency without facing higher inflation and rising asset prices, US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said recently. Geithner, in an interview with CNBC television on the sidelines of a Group of 20 leaders summit, said he believed there had been progress on China currency issues…
While the fate of those deals rests primarily with President Obama, US business leaders say trade is one area of potential compromise between the White House and Republicans in 2011. “Trade has been at the back of the bus for last two years and I think there’s a real opportunity for trade to be in…
Miner Xstrata, the world’s biggest integrated zinc producer, will spend A$274m ($246m) to boost output at its George Fisher mine in Australia by nearly 30 percent by 2013. Xstrata said in a statement it had got approvals from the state government of Queensland to proceed with the expansion of the mine at the group’s Mt….
Six years ago the Central American Region and Dominican Republic signed the Free Trade Agreement with the US (DR-CAFTA). The treaty has eliminated commercial barriers and taxes for the introduction of certain products, which certainly has brought further economic development for the participant countries. Despite the international financial crisis there has been a considerable increment…
Kettani Law Firm (KLF) is a major Moroccan business law firm founded in 1971 by Professor Azzedine Kettani who was admitted to practice as a lawyer in 1968 and is approved by the High Court of Justice of the Kingdom of Morocco. He was joined in 1992 – after internships in France and the US…
In the past, the registration of a branch of an English company in Austria encountered significant legal resistance and was often rejected by the courts. The cause of this resistance was more often than not a lack of understanding of the Austrian courts of the legal structure of English companies and the inability of the…
