Recently revealed as the developed country with the greatest difference between rich and poor, and recipient of the (fictional) Award for the simplest capital-catching strate...
Economies: Bernanke's tenuous grip on reality
If you can lose your head when all around are trying to save theirs, then you can be Chairman of the Fed, my son*. Bernanke's latest idea for saving the USA's economy is hackn...
Economies: China bemoans falling growth rate
China's upset. Whilst the rest of the world falls into what economists call negative growth and the rest of us call recession, the growth rate at the world's factory is a &quo...
Economies: Netherlands buys 8.5% of ING
Dutch financial giant ING, which has been mounting a stealth-attack on the title of world's largest financial institution and has made it into the top 20 with almost no one n...
Economies: the dead cat bounce that left a very bloody mess
One swallow does not a.... oh, never mind. That and every other cliché one can think of doesn't come close to justifying the sudden roll back of the gains made earlier this w...
On 24th October 2005, BusinessWeek carried an article with the headline "Wanted: Fed Chief with foreign flair." The premise was that &q...
Economies: markets repair after weekend of frantic messages from governments
The world's major markets picked up on late Friday gains in the USA and goo...
Economies: after months of waiting, Singapore admits recession
The signs have been in place for a year and every month it's been getting closer. Now the inevitable has happened and Singapore is officially in...
Economics: Seoul market collapses as lemmings and threats take control
The Seoul stock market has fallen more than 7% in morning trading following down other Asia Pac Markets. But threats from North Korea aren't help...
Economies: Yamato first Japanese casualty of financial sector crisis
Yesterday, the Japanese financial sector appeared substantially insulated against the global financial crisis. Today, it's at the heart of it wit...
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