20 Jun
by György Halász The sulphur content of marine fuel will be decreased from 3.5% to 0.5% in 2020. The regulatory change – easily defendable on the ground of environmental aspects – directly affects ship owners, ship builders, marine transportation fuel traders, wholesalers and refiners as well. In what follows, the history of marine fuel legislation […]
12 Mar
The top 5 charts of the week are chosen by our guest blogger Mihály Tatár and cover the recent jump in Italian long-term bond yields, the Trump effect in Central and Eastern European yields, the critical and worsening situation in Turkey, why we call copper “dr Copper” and why Facebook equity price downturns signal a big […]
10 Dec
by Agnes Horvath Once computers were large machines operated by technical staff working in specially constructed centers. Today, computers are used by everybody and microprocessors have become ubiquitous, present on desktops, automobiles all through to greeting cards. Still, as Robert Solow from MIT put it: “You can see the computer age everywhere but in the […]
10 Nov
by Agnes Horvath and Ana Kecman It has been only a week ago that the ratification of the Paris Agreement got into the headlines and environmentalists all over the world could celebrate a clear turning point in global climate policy. While there were countries that put the emission of greenhouse gases on their agenda […]
