With no party having gained sufficient seats in the upper house of the Italian legislature, analysts warned on February 25, 2013 of a “hu...

According to The Huffington Post, “ Oil prices took a nosedive [on May 5, 2011] in a historic selloff, erasing weeks of gains and indicatin...

Although the various investors in the financial markets doubtlessly pay great attention to important political events, such as were a state...

As the U.S. economy slogged through a recession following the credit crisis in 2008 and the E.U. was weighed down by the ballast of auste...

On the day the Catalan parliament voted in favor of “Catexit” from Spain, the IBEX-35 stock-market index dropped 1.4 percent while the Stox...

The Saudi government sought to confiscate cash and other assets worth as much as $800 billion in ostensibly cracking down on corruption in ...

Lest it be thought that trade—indeed, economics— was the foremost consideration in the British decision to secede from the E.U., the state’...

The impact on business of political uncertainty in countries that are seized by revolution can be substantial—so much so in fact that CE...

The world’s financial sector may be excessively sensitive to increasing uncertainty associated with major changes—that is, changes that imp...

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Finland became a state in the European Union in 1995 and adopted the euro at its birth in 1999. In terms of population, the state is betw...

Political risk assessment is a nasty business in that the future has a stubborn habit of not wanting to be too predictable. Even though tom...