Macroeconomics

Mounting geopolitical risks dampen the growth outlook for the Middle East countries despite higher oil prices and strong global growth. The intensified political instability in Saudi Arabia with the large scale operation by the Crown Prince to curb corruption led to oil price hitting over two-year high. The economy is expected to stabilize in 2018,...

Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) are expected to witness positive growth in Q4 2017. Public spending is anticipated to pick up in 2017. For 2017, Brazil and Russia are expected to register positive growth rates of 0.17% and 0.43% respectively, thereby recovering from the decline in 2016. Rebounding export has been the key drive...

Improvement in the global economic outlook helped to strengthen growth across BRICS nations. Brazil and Russia have registered positive economic growth in Q2 2017, rebounding from negative growth in Q1 2017. Brazil’s manufacturing sector recovered slowly in Q2 2017, registering a growth of 0.6% which is higher than the growth of 0.28% registered ...

Increasingly, ubiquitous connectivity and innovation in applications are generating explosive growth for IoT devices globally. While China and Asia-Pacific continue to dominate the market, IoT applications and revenue growth in North America and Latin America drive the innovation in IoT. This study estimates the total number of IoT devices that are...

The year 2016 has been a turnaround year for North America with the new American President having protectionist rhetoric and agenda for revisit of free trade deals. Even though the promised fiscal stimulus in terms of tax cuts favoring the corporates is not likely to come into effect in 2017, there exists a wide range of uncertainty possibilities s...

APAC accounted for around 50% of the global PreCast market followed by Europe , North America and Rest of the world. The Kingdoms major cities are building in huge towers, malls, hotels , office building and halls based out of precast concrete and its products. To boost the real estate and to propel the precast market the KSA government has late...

The economic performance of the Western Europe in the beginning of 2016 could be characterized by moderately improved growth supported by rise in disposable income, better job growth, and low inflation. Germany and Spain are on a solid recovery path and leading the Eurozone growth in 2016. Political uncertainties are being created not only on the U...

Western European economies are on a moderate economic recovery amid the impending risks of Britain’s exit from the European Union. While the consequences are under much debate, this unprecedented economic phenomenon will lead to severe short term volatility throughout the region.

Uncertainty looms over Western Europe with Brexit becoming a reality. While Britain will face prolonged economic volatility, other Western European economies will also face uncertainty in trade, banking regulations, and currency depreciation. However, despite uncertainty, strong economies such as Germany are banking on steady domestic demand and m...