The security printing market is changing fast. Over the past decade, economies worldwide have gone from swift to sluggish, and from atonic to energetic. With every shift, the demand in currency printing is affected. Security printers from the Western world are figuring out how to make sure the few profitable clients the world has left […]
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Wilson Bennett Says PBOC – China’s Economy To Pick Up In 2nd Half
Wilson Bennett: China’s central bank has forecast an uptick in the country’s economic fortunes in the 2nd half of 2015. According to Wilson Bennett, stabilizing home prices and stronger foreign demand for Chinese goods will help drive an uptick in the world’s second biggest economy in the 2nd half of 2015. So say economists at […]
Business Lending on the Rise for US Banks
After a long drought of high interest rates and choosy lending criteria, banks are beginning to open their doors a little wider to the business community. For the first time in 20 years, banks are lending as often, if not more, for businesses as they do for residential mortgages. According to the Federal Deposit Insurance […]
Union International Reports BoJ Keeps Stimulus Unchanged
Union International: Inflation headed in the “wrong” direction wasn’t enough to spur the Bank of Japan to boost stimulus. Union International: The Bank of Japan has ignored analysts’ and economists’ calls for a boost inits already huge quantitative easing program despite inflation numbers heading in the opposite direction to the policymakers’ targets. The central bank […]
Union International: ECB QE Far From Done Deal
Union International: Investors may be jumping the gun by pricing the first official round of quantitative easing from the ECB into markets. Union International: With investors seemingly convinced that European Central Bank President Mario Draghi is finally set to unleash full-blown quantitative easing imminently, some are warning that the unprecedented move is far from “a […]
Growth of a Nation, Decline of a World
The sharp fall in oil prices raises concerns among some members of the Monetary Policy Committee of the Federal Reserve. A call to take whichever indication one wishes, but see thatthe revival of America is real was Obama’s launch in late December of last year, speaking about economic growth in the United States. While the […]