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Back Page: Polls and Stats – Key US Economic Indicators Are Starting To Rebalance
“Pent-up demand is now showing up in key indicators. In pole position is the US economy, where multiple indicators show...
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Banking
Cover: New Role For Central Banks?
UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES By Udayan Gupta The world’s central banks are on a desperate mission to stave off deflation. But even if their short-term fixes work, the long-term outcomes may have unplanned results. Central banks are in an ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Milestones: Japan Joins Talks On World’s Biggest Free-Trade Zone
MILESTONES: GLOBAL By Erik Heinrich Japan has been invited to participate in negotiations that extend the reach of Nafta into South America and the Asia Pacific region. Other members of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), expected to be the world’s ...
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Milestones: Luxembourg Opens Up Once-Sacred Banking Sector
MILESTONES: LUXEMBOURG By Forrest Jones Another tax haven is set to unveil its operations, this time in Western Europe. Luxembourg recently agreed to share confidential banking details belonging to multinational companies with its neighbors. The move, which will help ...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Milestones: National Front Wins Contested Election
MILESTONES: MALAYSIA By Thomas Clouse Malaysia’s National Front coalition will extend its 56-year reign by another five years after maintaining its parliamentary majority in a tightly contested and controversial election. The National Front, a group of political parties led ...
Banking
Milestones: Private-Sector Banks Rake In Profits In Iraq
MILESTONES: IRAQ By Gordon Platt The five largest nongovernmental banks in Iraq posted a 207% increase in aggregate earnings between 2010 and 2012, thanks to the country’s strong economic growth and increasing demand for credit, according to a report on ...
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Newsmakers: Can Letta Save Italy From Austerity?
NEWSMAKERS: ITALY By Gilly Wright “Italy is dying from austerity alone. Growth policies cannot wait,” announced Italy’s new premier, Enrico Letta, in his first keynote speech. Can Letta pass reforms with weak coalition partners? Saying that priorities would ...
Capital Raising & Corporate Finance
Newsmakers: Finance Minister Has His Work Cut Out For Him
NEWSMAKERS: VENEZUELA By Paula L. Green Everyone from consumers weary of battling rising inflation to importers wrestling with a devalued currency and foreign and domestic investors whose companies were nationalized will have a stake in the actions Nelson José Merentes ...
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Newsmakers: Icelands New PM To Focus On Household Debt
NEWSMAKERS: ICELAND By Valentina Pasquali Back to the future is the theme in Iceland after voters rejected the austerity policies of the left-of-center government in power for the past four years and reinstalled the same center-right coalition that presided over ...
Banking
Newsmakers: New Bank Of Canada Governor Has Big Shoes To Fill
NEWSMAKERS: CANADA By Joel Kranc Few people were completely surprised when Mark Carney, the head of the Bank of Canada, broke the news earlier this year that he was leaving his post to head up the Bank of England. ...
Banking
Newsmakers: Unknown Quantity Takes The Reins At Santander
NEWSMAKERS: SPAIN ByLuca Ventura Appointed as chief executive of Santander in 2002, Alfredo Senz took less than a decade to...
Emerging & Frontier Markets
Salon: Yves Zlotowski, Coface
ROLE REVERSAL By Ronald Fink Global Finance sat down with Yves Zlotowski, chief economist of the economic research department of trade risk consultancy Coface, to get his take on the investment opportu-nities and challenges of emerging markets. ...