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News Robust demand fundamentals, strong balance sheets and an appetite for growth will drive a step-up in M&A in the global mining and metals sector in 2012. Singapore ranks third after Hong Kong and Ireland on Ernst & Young’s Globalization Index 2011. Read our Budget wish list for our suggestions to drive productivity, ease business costs, improve cash flow and enhance competitiveness. Weinberger currently leads our Global Tax practice, and will succeed Global Chairman and CEO Jim Turley when he retires in June 2013. The prospect of a mild recession in the Eurozone in the first half of 2012 is looking increasingly likely according to our Eurozone Winter Forecast.
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