(Credit: Fang Xia Nuo/iStock by Getty Images) December 2, 2024/IMFBlog By Vitor Gaspar, Carlos Gonçalves, and Marcos Poplawski-Ribeiro Global debt decreased about one percentage point to 237 percent GDP. The values for 2023 are now available from the just released IMF’s Global Debt Database. Global private debt fell by 2.8 percentage points […]

Image Credit: AEC December 2, 2024 By NJ Ayuk, Executive Chairman, African Energy Chamber. For more than a year, the African Energy Chamber (AEC) has been pushing back against steadily building pressure to halt new foreign investments in Africa’s oil and gas industry. To prevent catastrophic climate change, environmental organizations, […]

November 29, 2024/Oilprice.com Michael Kern Editor, Oilprice.com It’s been a relatively calm week for oil prices despite plenty of developments on both the geopolitical and fundamental front, but prices might just begin to climb next week. Thanksgiving has disrupted a highly eventful week that saw OPEC+ ramp up its shuttle […]