Editor's Letter
Editor’s Letter: Ratings And Reform
This month we look at ratings and ratings agencies in two different, and only apparently contrasting, ways...
Editor’s Letter
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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...
Editor's Letter
Between Aid And Contagion
Who would have predicted that the Europeans would try to get financial support from China, Portugal would try to get investment from Brazil, French banks could try for funding from Russia, or that the US administration would criticize the “lack of action” in Europe as a way to divert attention from its own problems?
Editor's Letter
Crisis And Cooperation
The sovereign debt crisis in Europe and economic slowdown in other developed countries have forced dramatic fiscal and economic measures and several increasingly harsh rescue plans in countries around Europe...
Banking
Best In Class In Times Of Turmoil
When the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank have their annual meeting in Washington DC at the end of September, the atmosphere will most probably be very tense...
Editor's Letter
Slow Growth And Ratings
Once again the month of August has brought turbulence to the financial markets...
Editor's Letter
The Uncertainty Factor
As we go to press with this double issue of Global Finance, uncertainty seems to be the dominating factor of the economic climate...
Editor's Letter
Commodities And Inflation
Commodity prices seem to increasingly influence the world economy—both on the producer and consumer side—and the financial markets...
Editor's Letter
Tsunami And Turnaround
In the past few weeks we all focused on Japan, shared its pain and its terrible losses. Many wondered about the risks that the crises in that country and in the Middle East might inflict on the global economy...
Editor's Letter
Events And Interdependence
The events that have occurred during the past few weeks demonstrated once again the interdependence between world economies and world markets...