The United Kingdom (UK) has become globally renowned for its ability to cultivate innovation across established and emerging sectors. Leveraging its position as an international capital for commerce and finance
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Brands help organizations differentiate themselves in the minds of customers. They enable organizations to get traction on new products easily by building on their brands’ images, which typically should convey the high level of quality to which customers are accustomed.
With world gross domestic product growth expected to be around 3.3 percent in 2017, little better than the 2016 level of 3.1 percent, and inflation coming back at a moderate pace in the United States, the United Kingdom and the Eurozone, will the commercial real-estate market attract investors?
In a context in which interest rates are low in developed countries, treasurers are facing the delicate issue of optimizing their treasury placements. Near-zero or negative interest-rate policies have created a situation in which no inflation growth has been produced, and spending and investment have not grown as expected.
The number of new oil and gas discoveries made over the last few years has declined. And fears of oil shortages are regularly returning—reminiscent of previous alarms about the planet’s shrinking black-gold reserves. On several occasions, the International Energy Agency (IEA) also issued alerts about slowdowns in investment.
On February 22, 2017, the World Trade Organization (WTO) announced the end of a long story with the agreement on trade facilitation, concluded in 2013, finally able to enter into force. Criticized for its paralysis for years, finally the agreement has been ratified by a two-thirds majority of member states;