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Editor’s Letter: As The Mists Burn Off

Now that the US has voted to grant a second term to its president, Barack Obama, and the Chinese ruling party has selected Xi Jinping as its new leader and future president, one big layer of uncertainty has faded from the international scene...

Banking

Editor’s Letter: Forecasts May Be Down,But Hope Is Rising

The annual meetings of the IMF and World Bank in Tokyo in October confirmed that the economic slowdown of Europe, and to a lesser extent of Japan and the US, has negatively affected emerging markets growth...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Editor’s letter: Excellence Amid Uncertainty

The annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank in Tokyo opens under the shadow of continuing economic uncertainty...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Editor’s Letter: The Demand Dilemma

In the Western world, September is synonymous with the beginning of the school year, and represents the resumption of full economic activity after summer vacation...

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Editor’s Letter: Anniversary Issue 2012

Many people are responsible for creating and sustaining <em> Global Finance </em> ...

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Editor’s Letter: Summer Revival?

The summer has been alive with global central bank activityfrom lower interest rates to new and more creative monetary measures...

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Editor’s Letter: Declining Consensus

For the past couple of years much international economic debate has focused on issues of growth and austerity, while regulatory debate has focused on Basel III and systemic risks...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Editor’s Letter: BRIC By BRIC

The outgoing president of the World Bank, Robert Zoellick, recently made a statement that we consider particularly relevant to our readers...

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Editor’s Letter: Ratings And Reform

This month we look at ratings and ratings agencies in two different, and only apparently contrasting, ways...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Editor’s Letter: Elections, Austerity And Uncertainty

In deciding to focus on elections worldwide for this month's cover story, we weren't just pondering their political implications and the relative uncertainty they occasion, we were also considering the global nature and impact of uncertainty in a single national election...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Editor’s letter: The Europe Effect

For months now public debate around the world has been dominated by the turmoil in Europe...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Lingering Risks

Europe may be the center of attention at the start of the new year, but it is certainly not the only area of the world that worries economists and policymakers...