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COVID-19-driven demand for consumer electronics sent tin prices soaring, leading miners in the world’s largest tin-exporting country to head offshore.
Norwegian Air says it’s hopeful over a rebound as Europe reopens, while Lufthansa says its cash flow has now turned positive again.
Injecting underground the CO2 from coal-driven electricity generation is a controversial solution for South Africa’s greenhouse gas challenge.
Limits placed on bank dividends had a considerable effect on 2020 payouts, but a latest global estimate is for an 8.5% “underlying rebound” in 2021.
Five major African economies are forecasting growth rates this year above 4%, data shows.
The number of the 2Africa project’s cable ‘landings’ has increased to 35 in 26 countries, improving internet connectivity into and around Africa.
Elite tier passengers, who accounted for 30% of international revenue pre-pandemic, are being given status extensions of at least two years.
The government has a target of 220,000 electric vehicles by 2030 and plans to cover 25% of the purchase price of any Russian-made electric car.
The $174 billion worth of M&A deals announced this year in Australia is an all-time high and around six times the value of the same period in 2020.
Leaders in the public sector share lessons in performance measurement and discuss opportunities to help rebuild the global economy post-pandemic.
Insurer says the global insurance industry is poised to recover more quickly and forcefully from the pandemic than it did after the 2008 financial crisis.
UK office space provider says its occupancy in London had started to pick up from pandemic lows.
A study ranks the UK as the world’s fifth most attractive destination for M&A activity; fintech attracts significant investment and renewable energy is a potential source of FDI growth.
The violence and looting caused the Wall Street bank to downgrade its full-year growth prediction from 4.9% to 4.5%.
Finance ministers for the G7 reached an agreement on Saturday supporting a global minimum tax rate of at least 15%. Here’s how it would work and what might happen next.
China has moved to shorten its vegetable supply chains by using tech-enabled greenhouse complexes built in megacity outskirts.
US finance decision-makers are mainly positive for the coming year for their businesses and the domestic economy, according to a quarterly survey.
An independent report said the US-proposed minimum global effective tax rate of 15% would bring in an additional €50 billion of tax for the EU.
Disruptions to global supply chains including the Suez blockage have accelerated digitisation of freight tracking on startup-developed platforms.
Investment by private equity firms in the global plastic packaging sector is slowing — as a result of ESG risk.
