Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Central Banker Report Cards 2016
Global Finance takes the world’s central bank governors to school in our annual “report cards” grading their economic stewardship.
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Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Central Bankers: Have They Reached The Limits Of Their Power?
Central bank governors face the tough task of stimulating growth with monetary policy, which seems to have reached a natural limit. Only fiscal policy can set the stage for long-term expansion.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Hanjin: Coal Mine Canary?
Some believe Hanjin's bankruptcy signals that quantitative easing has no more power, and a global recession is on the horizon.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Inequality Is A Big Dipper
Study says income and wealth inequality, which have widened a lot in the past 30 years in the US and elsewhere, make recessions more severe because poor people, who have little or no savings and often flawed credit, sharply reduce consumption when facing a sudden drop in income.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Low Rates/Expansionary Policies = Chicken v. Egg
If you think record-low interest rates are the result of years of expansionary monetary policices, think again.
Economics, Policy & Regulation
Monsanto Deal In Hand, Bayer Faces Regulators
In potentially the biggest foreign corporate takeover ever by a German company, Bayer seeks to buyMonsanto for 62 billion. Werner Bauman gets into agribusiness.
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Obama: US To Lift Sanctions On Myanmar
<strong>Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar’s de facto leader and a Nobel Peace Prize winner, has a change of heart regarding US sanctions against her country.</strong>
Economics, Policy & Regulation
Pharma Prices Raise Eyebrows
<strong>US: </strong>Heather Bresch, the CEO of Mylan, an American pharmaceuticals company, finds herself at the center of one of the biggest pharma controversies in recent years: price-gouging.
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Q&A: KPMG Africa’s Bryan Leith
While on a road show for US clients, Bryan Leith, chief operating officer of KPMG’s global Africa practice, sat down with Global Finance to discuss the continent’s economic prospects.
Emerging & Frontier Markets
South Africa: Tripping On Success
South Africa's growth is impeded by long-term constraints; still, the government deserves credit for tackling reforms.
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Spain’s Ortega Tops Gates In Wealth
Big profits from managing short lead times helped Amancio Ortega—Spanish business magnate, founder and chairman of the Inditex fashion group—recently pass Bill Gates’s fortune for the second time.
Economics, Policy & Regulation
Tax Clampdown Looks Beyond Apple
The EU hit Apple with a tax bill, but it's not the only company in regulators' sights.McDonalds, Facebook, Google and Amazonare being called on the carpet about tax practices too.