U.S. beef exports have trailed year-ago levels for each of the first 10 months of 2019, but there is growing optimism that international demand for U.S. beef will improve in 2020. The latest positive development occurred in December, when Japan finalized approval of the U.S.-Japan Trade Agreement. This will improve the competitive position of U.S. beef in Japan by allowing the ...

Date: 16th-18th January, 2020 Venue:  Kigali, Rwanda Information: The Creative Africa Exchange has been created to be a catalyst that brings together identified assets and resources within the creative industry’s ecosystem. Developed and managed by Times Multimedia, CAX has been designed to be the nexus of Africa’s creative economy to stimulate, consolidate the African creative and cultural industry’s’ fragmented ecosystem into a ...

South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa is set to take over the chairmanship of the African Union for the year 2020, replacing Egypt’s Abdel Fattah el-Sisi who chaired the organization through 2019. In his New Year’s address, the South African leader pledged to use the opportunity to rally Africa to actualize the Continental Free Trade Agreement, whose operational phase was launched in ...

Argentina emerged as a competitor to Australia and Black Sea in the Asian wheat market in 2019 but that trend could be derailed in 2020 after the South American country’s new government raised grains export taxes, including on wheat, casting uncertainty over farmers’ planting plans and future production and exports. According to reports, with Australian production in doldrums due to persistent drought ...

South Africa’s rand rose holding on to gains from previous sessions triggered by a global investor hunt for high yields and optimism over a breakthrough in trade standoff between China and the United States. The rand has gained about 5% since mid-December, despite a raft of data releases showing a weak economy and nationwide blackouts by state power company Eskom, with ...

European policy makers hope that stronger growth will materialize as global headwinds recede. But a look at what awaits the four largest European economies next year shows that governments everywhere are hanging at the mercy of a continuous slowdown, as the persistent recession of the manufacturing sector begins to spill over into the rest of the economy. Many countries also suffer from self-inflicted harm ...

Vietnam hopes China would show restraint in the South China Sea in 2020 after a Chinese oil survey vessel and its escorts spent months within Vietnam’s exclusive economic zone in what Hanoi called a blatant violation of its sovereignty. Vietnam, the region’s most forceful challenger of China’s extensive maritime claims to be the busy waterway, will take on the rotating ...

Date: January 23, 2020 Venue: Holiday Inn, Mumbai Information: Aspire Media will be organizing Small Enterprise SME Banking, Insurance & Logistics 2020 to provide a platform for SMEs to understand the fundamental importance of cost effective risk management and the role banking and insurance can play to help manage the unpredictable risks faced. Small Enterprise SME Banking, Insurance & Logistics ...

Australian capital, Canberra, is set for a large-scale renewable-energy auction to guarantee its 100 per cent renewables target in the mid-2020s. The bids opened on 15th November and will remain open until early 2020. At present, more than 100 megawatts of solar generating capacity is operational within the territory, with four large solar farms within 30 minutes’ drive of central ...