And, just like you could always point out the new freshmen in a high school, you can usually spot the gym newbies, too: Matchy-matchy from their hats to their sneakers – perhaps the crease marks still intact from the Christmas boxes they were folded up …

Gone are the days where high–end beauty services are inextricably tethered to the doctor's office or aesthetician. Beauty professionals now offer a level of expertise (and highly active ingredients and equipment only licensed experts are allowed to use …

How China decides to approach the tension it faces between sustaining rapid economic growth and amassing a major debt burden represents the key global issue facing the world today, says hedge fund legend George Soros, chairman of Soros Fund …

Christmas sales in the United States and European Union – crucial markets for Hong Kong firms – improved last year, raising hopes that the city's export-oriented businesses will get a further boost this year as the global economic recovery gathers pace.

The global economy had another difficult year in 2013. The advanced economies' below-trend growth continued, with output rising at an average annual rate of about 1%, while many emerging markets experienced a slowdown to below-trend 4.8% growth.

BMI has warned of the risk of a substantial currency devaluation, which would have an impact on the affordability of IT products and services. Although local PC, TV and mobile phone production in Tierra del Fuego state has expanded rapidly, most of the …

However, according to Skorikov, there is a third scenario – devaluation: "When there is a devaluation, the cost of labor falls heavily, many industries are starting to become competitive, the economy of supply begins to produce again cheap goods that …

We anticipate that the commercial sector (14.4% of real GDP in 2012) will continue to provide little support to headline growth in the coming months, due in part to relatively weak import demand from Venezuela, which is an important destination for …

This discrepancy enables major European corporations, particularly German industrial corporations to be very competitive, because they outsource part of their production to countries like Bulgaria, Romania or to other Central and Eastern European …