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KUALA LUMPUR (March 19): Eco World International Bhd (EWI) said today that it has completed stage 1 acquisitions of six sites in the UK for GBP63.76…

BEIJING/SINGAPORE (March 19): Alibaba Group Holding Ltd said it will invest an extra US$2 billion in Southeast Asian e-commerce firm Lazada Group and tapped a…

KUALA LUMPUR (March 19): YTL Power International Bhd is acquiring Dutch company Bel Air Den Haag Beheer BV, which owns the 306-room Mariott The Hague,…

CYBERJAYA (March 19): The move by Barisan Nasional (BN) to announce its candidates for the 14th General Election (GE14) is timely to avoid any element…

KUALA LUMPUR (March 19): A lawyer representing Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor today lodged a police report claiming defamation over a YouTube video allegedly linking the…

HONG KONG (March 19): Tan Sri Tony Fernandes’ AirAsia Bhd is in talks with a potential partner to open an airline serving Myanmar, in a…

KUALA LUMPUR (March 19): The FBM KLCI closed 1.55 points or 0.1% higher as share trade volume across Bursa Malaysia fell below two billion. The…

KUALA LUMPUR (March 19): Malaysian Resources Corp Bhd (MRCB) is selling a 1.866-acre piece of land in Jalan Kia Peng here to the Social Security…

KUALA LUMPUR (March 19): Malaysia’s vehicle sales dropped 4.42% or 1,877 units to 40,578 units in February, compared with 42,455 units a year ago, driven…

February data included a decline in monthly housing permits and starts, and also retail sales. Industrial production and capacity utilization grew strongly. Consumer and producer prices increased at a rate slightly above normal. Consumer sentiment as measured by the University of Michigan rose sharply.

          Comparative advantage is central to the idea of international trade.  It states that a country will produce more of product X if the country’s opportunity cost for the extra unit of production is lower than other choices.  The easiest example is derived from the different standard of living between a […]

              On March 8, Deputy Bank of Canada governor Timothy Lane gave a speech titled, “Canada’s Economic Expansion: A Progress Report.”  To provide the required background, Canada had a mild recession a few years ago, caused by OPEC’s opening the production spigot which drove down oil prices.  Most of Canada was moderately touched; the […]