Over the past three decades, international and commercial negotiation theory has been driven by a prevailing premise: the pursuit of efficiency through market integration.
Economics
After two days of talks in Beijing, the European Union and China have reached an agreement that could reduce Chinese exports of hybrid and plug-in hybrid cars by more than half over the next four years, preventing the arrival of several million vehicles.
A pipeline that became one of the defining symbols of Europe’s rupture with Russia may yet become one of the instruments through which Washington and Moscow attempt to construct the peace that follows it.
Three sources with knowledge of the discussions have told The Diplomatic Affairs that Romanian President Nicușor Dan asked JP Morgan in New York this week to open a financing line for the Romanian state and was turned down.
In a reception without precedent in more than a decade, President Trump personally greeted Xi Jinping at a military base outside Washington, and hours later the two governments agreed to extend their fragile trade truce into January.
European banking mergers and acquisitions (M&A) are back. Market volatility triggered by US tariff actions has threatened the global M&A recovery
Donald Trump is getting his hands on Venezuelan oil and announcing a mega-deal to take control of over 65 billion barrels of Caracas’ crude oil, “the largest deal in world history,” as he himself calls it in Truth.
Riyadh has placed transfers to the Emirates under the kind of scrutiny reserved for jurisdictions considered dangerous for illicit money flows.
Markets, Birol told Bloomberg, are “nervous” and gripped by “great uncertainty” as attacks from both sides escalate, threatening shipments of oil and more.
Inflation is one of the biggest economic problems a country can face. It’s the phenomenon whereby consumers, and therefore families, lose purchasing power in the various expenses they face.