By John Richardson IT IS TIME for crisis planning, I am afraid, as a result of the World Health Organisation’s warning that the “window of opportunity” for preventing a global pandemic is narrowing. The risks have increased substantially over the last few days with major outbreaks of COVID-19 in Italy and South Korea. A disease […]
Asian Chemical Connections
South Korea’s Demographic Challenges
By John Richardson SOUTH Korea serves as another example of how demographics are reshaping Asian economic prospects. “By 2018, 14% of its population will be over 65, making it officially an ‘aged society.’ That is six years sooner than Japan and more than a century before France, according to the Samsung Economic Research Institute,” writes […]
EU Summit Solves Nothing
European LDPE spot prices at their lowest level since January 2010 By John Richardson THE EU Summit results might have bought a little more time, but as John Authers points out in this article in the Financial Times, “the result was the latest politically driven bounce for risk markets (including crude-oil prices and […]
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