A soaring success? Or a crash landing?

Martyn Cornell

If there is any industry that acts for the world economy like a canary in a coal mine, then it would be the airline sector. When the going gets tough, both leisure and business travellers cut back, and airlines see bookings, and profits, fall. Martyn Cornell finds out more

Analysts believe that premium business travel, in particular, will be cut sharply this year because of the chaos in world financial markets and a possible recession in the US.

In addition, t...

How secondary markets benefit corporate financiers

Sophie Douglas highlights the benefits to corporate financiers of joining a secondary market network...

Sharing and networking

Founded in 1954 the Association for Corporate Growth (ACG), to quote the famous advertising slogan, ...

Closing the circle

Innovative risk management strategies are on the rise...

Defining sustainability value

Cheryl Hicks, World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) asks, 'Are we seeing increa...

The cultural revolution

How has the internet broken down barriers and is it always for the greater good?...

VDRs taking over from PDRs in M&A transactions

Since the Millennium, the business world's way of thinking seems to have been characterised to a lar...

The time is now

Susan Meisinger, President and CEO, Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), writes for Corpora...

EU achievement with carbon trading

January 2008 marked the end of the first trading period for the European Union's emissions trading s...

Top 25 desirable FDI locations

Interest among corporate executives for investments in the Middle East is at an all-time high accord...

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