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A nasty whiff of inflation
Sep 22nd 2005


Thanks to higher oil prices, inflation is creeping up all around the world ... more

FROM THE WEB
New bid to save world trade talks
(BBC) Fri 07:45 GMT

Merrill Lynch, Goldman Increase Hiring in Wall Street's 'War for Talent'
(Bloomberg) Fri 07:13 GMT

Oil climbs as Rita threatens
(CNN) Thu 19:56 GMT

U.S. Stocks Rise as Crude Oil Prices Fall; Sears Holdings, Retailers Gain
(Bloomberg) Thu 18:09 GMT

Rita fears raise oil prices
(Guardian Unlimited) Thu 16:39 GMT

Rita threatens stocks
(CNN Money) Thu 12:43 GMT




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The great thrift shift
A survey of the world economy
A survey of the world economyAmerica is spending while the rest of the world is saving. But for how long? Zanny Minton Beddoes investigates ... more


Price-cutting by fund managers E+
Slashed fees at Fidelity set a challenge for Britain's fund managers
Sep 22nd 2005

Euronext, Deutsche Börse and their shareholders E+
Shareholders stir things up again at Europe's big exchanges
Sep 22nd 2005

Europe's ex-communist economies E+
An unusual problem: labour shortages
Sep 22nd 2005

Brazilian bonds E+
The first bond in Brazil's own currency
Sep 22nd 2005

A bank run in Macau E+
They do more than gamble in Macau
Sep 22nd 2005

Canada's income trusts E+
Official worries about a Canadian financial craze
Sep 22nd 2005

Investment taxes E+
A study of corporate taxes yields some unexpected results
Sep 22nd 2005

The Buttonwood column: retailing and share prices
Beyond bling
Sep 20th 2005

Insurers and Hurricane Katrina E+
The insurance industry gasps at the cost of New Orleans's great hurricane
Sep 15th 2005

Italian banks E+
After a tortuous battle, a foreign takeover of an Italian bank is in sight
Sep 15th 2005

The World Bank's “Doing Business” report
A helpful exercise in quantifying business regulations and their costs
Sep 15th 2005

China's economy
Some advice from the rich man's club
Sep 15th 2005

New moves to strengthen a new market E+
Britain's fledgling property-swaps market stretches its wings
Sep 15th 2005

The Buttonwood column: oil and gold
Pump panic, gold glee
Sep 13th 2005

The UN's Millennium Development Goals
They cannot be met; some can barely be measured. What, then, are the goals for?
Sep 8th 2005

Japan's reviving banks E+
At last, Japan's banks are creating credit
Sep 8th 2005

Our house-price indices
America's housing boom is causing an enormous misallocation of resources
Sep 8th 2005

A Swiss private bank bulks up E+
Julius Baer's expansion is only a temporary solution for its problems
Sep 8th 2005

Hedge funds: a cautionary tale E+
A spectacular story raises a simple question: why don't investors in hedge funds take more care?
Sep 8th 2005

Private equity in India E+
Is India big enough for the industry's heavyweights?
Sep 8th 2005

ECONOMICS FOCUS
The World Development Report E+
The World Bank cannot go where its research is leading it
Sep 22nd 2005

Asia's foreign-exchange reserves
Sep 15th 2005

The dollar and bond yields
Sep 8th 2005



The Buttonwood column: financial-system risks
Sep 6th 2005

Monetary policy
Sep 1st 2005

MasterCard's IPO E+
Sep 1st 2005

Wal-Mart and financial services
Sep 1st 2005

KPMG settles E+
Sep 1st 2005

Investing in China's banks E+
Sep 1st 2005

Consumer credit in Asia E+
Sep 1st 2005

The Buttonwood column: investor confidence
Aug 30th 2005

Oil and the global economy
Aug 25th 2005

Oil and exchanges E+
Aug 25th 2005

Wall Street and the World Trade Centre E+
Aug 25th 2005

Indian property
Aug 25th 2005

Eastern Germany's economy E+
Aug 25th 2005

The economics of happiness E+
Aug 25th 2005

The Buttonwood column: emerging markets
Aug 23rd 2005

The world economy
Aug 18th 2005

Japan's cheerful financial markets E+
Aug 18th 2005

Arab investment
Aug 18th 2005

Buying stock exchanges E+
Aug 18th 2005

Credit derivatives E+
Aug 18th 2005

Shareholder lawsuits
Aug 11th 2005

The oil market E+
Aug 11th 2005

The yuan
Aug 11th 2005

China's state-owned shares E+
Aug 11th 2005

Microcredit in India E+
Aug 11th 2005

Commerzbank E+
Aug 11th 2005

Open wider
A survey of international banking
A survey of international bankingUneven regulation and protectionist practices are holding back international competition in banking. David Shirreff explains why banks are considered special, but need to become less so ... more




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