Macroeconomics

Oil prices might see some signs of stabilization given the discussions between Saudi Arabia and Russia in February 2016 to freeze crude oil production. Most of the oil exporting economies in the Middle East and African region, barring Qatar and United Arab Emirates due to their well-diversified economy, ended 2015 with abysmal economic fundamentals...

With improvements in data acquisition and computing power, artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming more of a reality each day. Companies are constantly developing self-evolving machine learning approaches and hardware enhancements to support AI applications. This study explores new innovations in machine learning and computing that will enable the...

Frost & Sullivan experts get together to present an executive briefing on the new wave of emerging markets with a special focus on Nigeria and Kenya. Africa is expected to remain among the fastest-growing regions globally and local content policies (LCPs) appear to be increasingly shaping industry. Nigeria has implemented LCPs across oil and gas, a...

Economic conditions in the Eurozone economy are set to improve in Q4 2015 driven by robust domestic demand, as private consumption is improving. The uncertainty cloud regarding Greece has settled to some extent on agreeing to a tentative bailout agreement to address its debt crisis. Exports are also reviving, prompted by a weaker Euro. Low oil pric...

Eurozone economy remains resilient with the anticipation of a steady domestic demand driven economic growth in Q4 2015 and Q1 2016. An expansionary monetary policy backed by low oil prices and a weaker Euro are expected to be the growth drivers of the region. Key industries like manufacturing and services will continue to perform well as suggested ...

In Q1 2015, the region picked up growth, owing to favorable conditions like low-oil prices, improving Eurozone economy, and global economic conditions. However, it gradually started subsiding from Q2 2015, as ongoing crisis in Ukraine, contraction in Russia, weak performance of the external sector coupled with soft growth rates in Hungary and Polan...

Depressed investor confidence and the on-going deadlock in Ukraine remain major hindrances to growth for Emerging Europe for the rest of 2015. Encouraging factors such as improved private consumption, increasing industrial production, and exports are expected to expedite the growth momentum for the Czech Republic and Poland. However, the contractio...

The growth outlook of Q2 2015 for Emerging Middle East and African remains strong undeterred by the shrinkage in oil revenue. Declining oil prices aggravate the essence of diversification and thus, non-oil sectors like agriculture, banking, finance and tourism are anticipated to play a substantial role in the progress of the economy in H2 2015. Rap...

The Western European countries were recovering gradually in Q1 2015 mainly driven by a stronger domestic demand and an improvement in private consumption. A favorable combination of subdued global oil prices, a weak Euro and European Central Bank’s aggressive trillion-Euro monetary stimulus is poised to drive the growth of the Western European ec...