… it is an affluent audience that is able to buy. People still shop the newspaper. There is an old adage: Do not leave your audience before it leaves. While the print audience may be smaller than it was, it is still very large and very powerful. Q …

A basic component of the broader North American corporate agenda is to convince us that we are consumers, not citizens, and eliminating any notion of commerce free days or spaces is completely entwined with that. From selling the naming rights of …

Much more likely that the vast majority would comprise migrant workers returning home for a break with the type of consumer goods that unskilled and semi-skilled migrant workers come back with. This would confirm that KP is a manpower exporting economy …

Abroad, attention to chronic diseases and health care is exploding among governments and affluent consumers in emerging markets like China, India, Brazil and Russia, and global health care corporations are stampeding into these markets.

But for now, at least, it is a war that US energy consumers can afford, and it will contribute to America's ongoing decarbonisation. The deeper challenge for the president and his allies … around the world in relatively easy-to-access deposits. While …

Because all that discretionary spending — the chic apartment, frequent travel and restaurant meals, consumer electronics, fancy clothes and cars — crowds out the saving that will enable you to be rich someday. I often hear complaints from young …

And why not, with consumer spending soaring in this investment-grade, increasingly affluent economy? “Boracay is where tourists can really let their hair down in a party atmosphere. Those who want something different from the more typical, meditative …

In South-East Asia and the Middle East, more affluent, urban-based consumers are likely to shop at a supermarket and would be satisfied with boxed meat, whereas rural consumers require their meat to be freshly slaughtered. Australia currently exports …

Before the start of the 100th edition of the Tour de France on Saturday, cycling has been boosted by news that US consumer electronics company Belkin will sponsor the former Rabobank team until 2015. The Dutch bank pulled out last year when cycling was …