• What is Graphene?

      19/08/2016
    Widely regarded as the “wonder material” of the 21st century, graphene’s beginnings are modest. The 2D material was first produced in 2004, when two professors at the University of Manchester used Scotch tape to peel flakes of graphene off a chunk of graphite.  
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  • Who Would Win a Currency War? No One

      17/08/2016
    It's been a year since a sudden, 1.9 percent decline in the Chinese yuan rattled global markets and prompted fears of a global currency war. China has mostly soothed nerves by moderating the renminbi's swoon since then. But what should really put minds to rest is the knowledge that no one -- not even China, which arguably did power its rise, at least in part, on the back of an artificially depressed yuan -- could win a true currency war today.  
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  • Dollar turns defense into attack ahead of Fed minutes

      17/08/2016
    Revived bets on U.S. interest rate rises this year saw the dollar turn defense into attack on Wednesday and halted a red-hot run for oil prices and emerging markets.  
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  • Vietnam’s economy to grow 6% this year

      17/08/2016
    In its global research, foreign-owned Standard Chartered Bank (Viet Nam) expects Vietnam's economic growth to reach 6 percent in 2016 and 6.6 percent in 2017.  
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  • ASEAN expects China, Brexit to slow economic growth in 2016

      16/08/2016
    Economic growth in ASEAN countries was expected to dip to 4.5 percent in 2016 from 4.7 percent last year due to China's slowdown and uncertainties related to Britain's vote to leave the European Union, the member states said in a statement.  
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