Cash is more important than profits

Businesses are so hell bent on trying to maximise their profits that they very often neglect what keeps their very business alive: cash.

Businesses are so hell bent on trying to maximise their...

Testing the link of unemployment to GDP growth
Market Commentary: Standard and Poor's 500 Index reaches record levels
Market Commetary: Summit in Belarus to bring EU, Ukraine and Russia to negotiating table
Market Commentary: Draghi gives hope that ECB will protect against Japanese-style deflation
Unlikely bedfellows: mines running on solar and wind power

Running a mine on renewables, often in combination with fossil fuels, offers...

Running a mine on renewables, often in combination with...

Market Commentary: Argentina pays foreign-currency bonds, Apple closes at all-time high

The Stoxx Europe 600 Index rallied 1.8 percent in the past two days as concern over the conflict between Ukraine and Russia subsided. The index gained 3.3...

The Stoxx Europe 600 Index rallied 1.8 percent in the past...

Market Commentary: Geopolitical escalation increases market volatility

Geopolitical risk and the euro-zone recovery or deflationary scenario are expected to continue to set the tone for the remainder of the month, as people return...

Geopolitical risk and the euro-zone recovery or...

Market Commentary: Growth in three biggest Euro area economies slows
Passing banks through the ECB wringer

It is pertinent to question why the Midas touch displayed by banks persisted for a number of years during which they have succeeded to report superior profits...

It is pertinent to question why the Midas touch displayed...

Market Commentary: US job openings number highest since 2001
Market Commentary: Chinese stock weaker overnight, emerging markets rally