As Trudeau pitches ‘progressive’ trade, will India be open for business? Prime Minister Justin Trudeau heads to India this Friday for a week-long trip that, much like his recent stops in China and Vietnam, is expected to focus heavily on trade. Canadian officials have been laying the groundwork for a free-trade agreement with the world’s

Canada, 10 Pacific-region nations, finalize sweeping trade pact Canada has joined 10 other Pacific region countries in a sweeping new trade deal, one that Ottawa touts as a progressive step forward but critics warn puts the country’s auto sector at risk. The revised Trans-Pacific trade deal, called the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership,

Europe’s economy: Three pathways to rebuilding trust and sustaining momentum Europe has an opportunity to ensure that growth and well-being continue in the long term, and to strengthen trust in its institutions. Europe is bouncing back after a “lost” decade. Business and citizen optimism has returned and eurozone GDP in 2017 expanded at its fastest

Clean Energy Investment Rose to $333.5B in 2017, Research Shows New clean energy investment worldwide rose by 3 percent last year to $333.5 billion from a year earlier, driven by a surge in solar photovoltaic (PV) installations, research showed on Tuesday. The figure is below 2015’s record amount of $360.3 billion, Bloomberg New Energy Finance

The Force Is With Clean Energy: 10 Predictions for 2018 It’s January, so that means it’s time for BNEF to look forward in time – and try to predict what 2018 will hold for the clean transition in energy and transport. Luckily, there is a new Star Wars film out, and I have tracked down

7 cryptocurrencies to watch in 2018 if you’re on the hunt for the next bitcoin Whatever the cynics out there want to call bitcoin, its BTCUSD, +6.64%   insane rally continues to befuddle the haters and enrich the crypto faithful. Fear of missing out can have a powerful — and dangerous — influence on financial

Trump tax cut to make India subsidiaries of US firms less competitive President Donald Trump’s US tax bill, signed into law on Friday, is set to hit the competitiveness of US firms’ Indian subsidiaries and encourage flow of capital from these units to their parents. The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act is set to make

Breaking Down the New U.S. Corporate Tax Law Mihir Desai, a professor of finance at Harvard Business School, breaks down the brand-new US tax law. He says it will affect everything from how corporate assets are financed to how business are structured. He predicts many individuals will lower their tax burdens by setting themselves up

India is a migration superpower. Here’s why India has a long history of migration. More than a century ago, large numbers of Indian migrants – many of them involuntary ones – moved to Africa, the Caribbean and within the Indian subcontinent itself. Some of the top destinations of Indian migrants in more recent decades include

Exclusive: Selling Saudi Arabia’s grain mills proves a grind for investors An unwieldy sale process and onerous ownership rules are discouraging some potential investors from bidding for Saudi Arabia’s state-owned grain mills, sources close to the firms say, in a potential snag for the kingdom’s economic reforms. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman wants to modernize