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This article discusses the monetary management of the central bank of Oman with respect to Balance of payments, savings and investment and Islamic banking. It accosts the three factors that cause the AD-Curve to be downward sloping and explains how the CBO aims to promote AD while keeping inflation stable.

This article talks about how the PED of tobacco is not as inelastic as once previously thought. The price of tobacco is increasing due to the government adding taxes, and because of the large increases in prices, the demand for tobacco is decreasing.

This article looks at what the Royal Bank of India believes could be harmful for the future. There are five main points, and one of them talks about the aggregated demand. There is hope for the aggregate demand to increase due to infrastructure projects coming through.

India is facing some macroeconomic concerns. Her economic recovery remains at slow rate. This causes weaknesses in aggregate demand and consumption demand.

In this article, the European Union is adding tariffs upon steel pipes imported from China. The EU believes that these tariffs will protect their market from under priced steel pipes. Chinese officials prepared a case to the WTO about the situation.

To combat the negative effects of the 2008 recession, many banks employed quantative easing - selling securities and printing money in order to liquify commercial banks. Now that said easing is coming to a halt, proper economic growth is finally possible.

China's economy is predicted to have a slowdown but is still expected to have an economic growth of 7.5%. There is no need for the government to provide a stimulus. China's economic growth seems to be in a steady stream of "ups and down" but consumption (AD) is increasing as well. This should push economic growth much farther.