All GLG News Analyses Filed Under: Economics

1. China's economic growth, through its demand for minerals, can pinch competitors at the high end of technology as well as the level of assembly and manufacture that relies on cheap labor. 2. Japan seeks to maintain competitiveness in flat panel displays and precision fabrication by ensuring adequate...

Since we are only 1/3 of the way into the correction - timing wise at least; people aren't stupid and they are waiting for most of the foreclosed property holders (read banks) and desperate sellers to lower prices. Since the market for loans has gotten tougher plus some buyers have lost their homes,...

A good economy should be described in terms of sustainability To make a point in economics,  one needs measurements

The latest readings on some of the U.S. “ economic indicators” is presented, in certain quarters, as continuing signs of weakness. The main arguments being “ Sales of newly built homes over the summer were weaker than previously estimated” , “September manufacturing was subdued”, “Business inventories...

China and Latin America are similar in many ways a few decades ago but over the years China overtake Latin America in many aspects such as technology, export and infrastructure, these all caused by China has the long history of culture and business skill.

By shrinking government, professionalizing monetary policy, floating currencies and freeing capital markets, the money entering the region is staying put. The eight of ten unfinished reforms in the original Washington Consensus represent the to-do list for Latin America if it is to raise its competitiveness...

Just as the American baby boomers did when they took control of the job market in the USA, the last high-fertility generation in Latin America will transform social norms and increase household wealth as they enter the most productive stages of their lives. While China continues to be draw investment...

Singapore as a multi culture and multi lingua country is the pioneer in looking for new markets.  After investing in China and India and now  turn to Latin America, which are most resourceful countries in the world now in term of raw materials, lands and man power.

Class-action law suits alleging tying arrangements between cable programmers and cable operators fail to acknowledge that cable operators are also subject to the same lack of choice that consumers allege in their suits.  Given the growing alternatives for distribution...

The current suspension and clouded prospects for the Doha Round of international trade talks were the result of an overly ambitious agenda that goes to the core of national sovereignty, and of procedures that impeded the functioning and eroded confidence in the WTO process. Should the talks fail and...