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Looking ahead: shifting sands

Shifting Sands Global Finance takes a long, hard look at the prospects for the coming decade. By Dan Keeler The first decade of the 21st century began with the spectacular and painful collapse of the dot-com bubble ...

Banking

Newsmakers: Copenhagen Conference Reveals Deep Rifts Over Climate Change

Europe/Global By Anita Hawser Trouble ahead: Delegates failed to secure a binding treaty in Copenhagen In mid-December political leaders, environmental scientists, NGOs and lobbyists converged on Copenhagen to try to hammer out a global agreement on climate change. ...

Economics, Policy & Regulation

Cover Story: Emerging Powerhouses

Far from collapsing under the weight of the recent financial crisis, the biggest emerging markets are powering the next wave of global growth. By Laurence Neville In its July World Economic Update,the International Monetary Fund said that the ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Cover Story: The Power Of Hope

President Obama's determination to do "whatever it takes" to rebuild the economy appears to be paying off. But it is his actions across the whole range of policy initiatives that will have the greatest impact on global corporations. By ...

Banking

Central Bankers Report Cards 2008

CENTRAL BANKER REPORT CARDS 2008 ANNUAL SURVEY/ CENTRAL BANKER REPORT CARDS Contributors: Antonio Guerrero, Anita Hawser and Gordon Platt History...

Economics, Policy & Regulation

Cover Story: All Change

Recent financial turmoil has accelerated the seismic shifts taking place in the balance of global economic and political power. How the major powers act in the coming years will determine the future shape of globalization. BY LAURENCE NEVILLE The global ...

Capital Raising & Corporate Finance

Cover Story : Africa in Squeeze

AFRICA IN A SQUEEZE By Paula Green Africa faces an uncertain future as its key economies suffer multiple setbacks and the global slump threatens to constrict the flow of investment. By Paula L. Green Being ...

Economics, Policy & Regulation

Milestones : G-20 sets out the new world order

The G-20 meeting in London in April was groundbreaking for the scale of the resources committed to the IMF and the unity of a diverse group of nations to combat global recession. But the legacy of the G-20 will ...

Economics, Policy & Regulation

Cover Story : The Party’s Over

LATIN AMERICA Once considered relatively immune to the global economic slump, Latin America is facing hard times as commodity prices crumble, trade dwindles and Venezuela’s oil-funded regional largess begins to dry up. On a roller coaster ride: Wild ...

Economics, Policy & Regulation

Cover Story : Fear Factor

DEFLATION US policymakers have already braced themselves for a bout of deflation, and many corporations are quaking at the prospect of price declines. Some are wondering, though, how bad can it really get? That the global economy, ...

Economics, Policy & Regulation

Features : Desperate Measures

SPOTLIGHT CORPORATE FRAUD Crumbling asset values and wild volatility have left a trail of disaster in their wake. They also exposed some truly shocking frauds. Abbey: “If something sounds too good to be true, it probably is” In ...

Economics, Policy & Regulation

Features: Carbon trade up

MARKET REPORT CARBON TRADING Barack Obama’s support for carbon trading will help strengthen an already growing market. Schleimer: The Clean Air Act could be used to regulate greenhouse gases Bolstered by Europe’s legislative advances to tackle climate ...