Recent Posts

A whiff of rotten eggs may augur oil shock

What’s the most important element in global commodity markets right now? Carbon? Copper? Gold? Wrong on all three counts. Sulfur — the yellow, infernal substance that gives rotten eggs their smell and hardens the rubber in car tires — is quietly roiling the energy industry. The disruptions could reshape everything from Australian coal, to the diesel and gasoline in your ...

Read More »

The Fed was ‘America first’ long before Trump

Donald Trump has to decide what he wants. Rising interest rates, which he says he doesn’t like, are a reflection of a strong economy. He loves to take credit for the latter and frequently boasts about how great things are since he came to office. One begets the other. America isn’t being penalised for doing well, as Trump complained in ...

Read More »

DP World-NIIF venture acquires 90% stake in Indian logistics firm

DUBAI / WAM Hindustan Infralog Private Limited (HIPL), a joint venture between DP World and National Investment and Infrastructure Fund (NIIF) announced that the transaction to acquire 90 percent stake in Continental Warehousing Corporation (Nhava Seva) Ltd (CWCNSL), in India has now closed. CWCNSL’s founders, the Reddy family, will retain the remaining 10 percent shareholding and will remain involved in ...

Read More »
Send this to a friend