The country’s businesses are currently facing three major challenges: law and order and security concerns, contractionary monetary policy and associated economic trends, and energy supply disruptions, ...

With much of the media focusing on the plans and objectives being articulated by Trump and his many prospective appointees, I fear that many of us are being distracted from what may be the most ...

Such a steep rise in food inflation cannot be explained by demand side forces. Diagnosing the reasons behind it is made hard ...

Sentiment among South African manufacturers snapped back to contractionary territory in November as weak domestic demand ...

The seasonally adjusted Absa Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) declined by 4.5 points in November, reverting back to contractionary territory at 48.1 index points. The company says this points to some ...

Stuck within a Euro straitjacket, France cannot engage in monetary policy loosening or currency depreciation to stimulate its ...

The Iowa Leading Indicators Index increased to 105.8 in October from 105.4 in September. When seen together, a six-month ...

The cost of alumina now accounts for more than half of the cost of making aluminium, compared with a usual level of between ...

The US economy is far from recession. Economic growth remains robust, driven by strength in the services economy, along with ...

The U.S. manufacturing sector showed signs of improvement in November, yet it failed to avoid another month of contractionary ...

Labor’s hopes of a pre-election rate cut have been buoyed after Reserve Bank governor Michele Bullock said she was more ...