Just hold on: Five questions for the ECB
The European Central Bank meets on Thursday to take stock of how the euro zone economy is faring a month…
G7 government debt: the next market hot spot?
Huge debt piles among the world’s biggest economies are starting to unnerve financial markets again, as elections cloud the fiscal…
Euro zone households seek loans again after two years – ECB
Euro zone households are applying for loans in growing numbers for the first time in two years as they grow…
Structure more important than growth rate of trade
The national foreign trade data for the first half of the year, released on Friday, show the total value of…
Azerbaijan says January-June oil exports via BTC pipeline up 3.8% y/y
Oil exports via the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline which runs from Azerbaijan through Georgia to Turkey were up 3.8% year-on-year in…
US retailers receive a summer boost
Retailers beat expectations in June The June US retail sales report is certainly stronger than expected although headline sales on…
Trans-Pac rate stall raises questions about staying power of H1 volume surge
Key to those questions is whether the first-half volume growth was primarily a result of robust underlying demand or rather…
Journal of Commerce Rankings: Kerry consolidates top NVO position
The overall market share of the top 25 non-vessel-operating common carriers in the eastbound trans-Pacific rose 0.8% year over year…
Service additions in trans-Pacific drive big boost in July deployed capacity
Carriers over the past two months have launched or reinstated seven services from Asia to Los Angeles-Long Beach, and three…
Russian pipeline gas exports to EU up 24% y/y in Jan-June, gas group says
Russian natural gas exports via pipelines to the European Union countries have jumped by 24% in the first half of…