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Rough sailing
Asia focus, Published on 22/02/2016
» The outlook for the shipping industry, which has been sailing through rough waters over the past eight years, remains fragile in 2016 with extreme volatility amid a sluggish world economy, with excess vessel supply weighing on market performance.
Steering a prudent course
Asia focus, Nareerat Wiriyapong, Published on 22/02/2016
» Expecting that 2016 will be even harder than last year, Precious Shipping Plc (PSL) is prepared financially with no need for additional fundraising to survive the growing challenges faced by the global shipping industry, its top executive says.
Knowledge for the masses
Asia focus, Published on 22/02/2016
» The names of three leading universities -- Stanford, Oxford and Yale -- grace the curriculum vitae of Richard Levin. He has degrees from all three and from 1974 to 2013 he taught economics at Yale and was president of the august university for 20 years, from 1993 to 2013. The soft-spoken Dr Levin is a quintessential academic with pedigree and a career that very few can match.
Shooting stars
Asia focus, Narendra Kaushik, Published on 22/02/2016
» Led by a pair of elderly housewives, hundreds of girls in a region of northern India notorious for honour killings and bias against girl children have thrown off their veils and picked up the gun.
Patience yields results
Business, Darana Chudasri, Published on 22/02/2016
» Investors are chasing high-yield investments to generate income in a world where interest rates are at near zero or even in negative territory. Although the US Federal Reserve made its first rate rise in nearly a decade in December, the next lift-off is fairly certain to come later than the Fed's policy rate call in March.
Fund Managers: For the long run, being passive pays
Business, Published on 22/02/2016
» Among the politically active class, it seems two questions are uppermost in their minds: How did we get to this point? And what is the army for? My editor has often reminded me that this is an investment column and not a political column so I will let the prime minister answer the aforementioned questions.
Being a boss: are you managing or leading?
Arinya Talerngsri, Published on 22/02/2016
» One of the most critical and valuable traits of being someone's boss is the ability to reflect on your own behaviour and performance and learn from it. This article will let you do just that by sharing some indicators to help you distinguish whether you are a manager or a leader.
Asian stocks advance as China climbs
Bloomberg News, Published on 22/02/2016
» SYDNEY — Asian stocks rose, reversing earlier losses as Chinese stocks climbed to their highest in almost a month and oil rebounded above $30 a barrel, lifting energy shares.
IEA sees oil market rebalancing in 2017
Reuters, Published on 22/02/2016
» Oil markets will begin to rebalance in 2017 thanks to falling US production but that decline will prove short-lived as efficiency gains will push US output to new records by the beginning of the next decade.