Being bearish on China may not turn out to be wise, but it does require some ingenuity. Shorting domestic stocks…
Anyone who doubts how hard it is to reform finance should consider the past fortnight. In America Congress edged towards…
It?s not quite a Lehman moment, but financial markets are more anxious today than at any time since the global…
The oil is coming ashore, seeping into the Louisiana marshes and washing up on Alabama beaches. Daily overflights show an…
The decision of the European Central Bank to start buying government bonds follows a path trodden by the Federal Reserve…
In the space of a week two of the best-known Internet companies have found themselves in a pickle over privacy.…
Employees of the Taff Vale Railway Company in South Wales greased the tracks and cut telegraph wires during a bitter….
It has been another turbulent week for the euro. Investors have pondered the euro 750 billion ($950 billion) rescue plan….
Financial reform is coming to America. On May 20th, after more than three weeks of often rancorous debate, the…
Every oil spill has a silver lining?if you are a lawyer, that is. More than 70 related lawsuits were filed…
If the habit of the old pre-bankruptcy General Motors was reliably to overpromise and underdeliver, ?new? GM is determined to…
It is too soon to call it a trend, but the fact that America?s normally passive shareholders have voted against…
For many European politicians, tighter regulation of hedge funds and private equity has the tang of revenge. ?Speculators? have picked…
Two leaders from two big regional powers, Luiz In?cio Lula da Silva of Brazil and Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey,…
The American Senate is supposed to bathe radical proposals in a breeze of moderation and reason. The opposite seems to…
One of the most patronising demonstrations of the alleged superiority of Western finance came in 2005-06, when China?s big banks,…
When Bill McDermott and Jim Hageman Snabe jointly took the helm at SAP in February they promised to be much…
Before May 6th equities had been seen as that rare thing, a financial market that had continued to function unimpaired…
