date: 2010-03-12 00:01:22

New York and London have been ranked as the joint-top global financial centres according to new research.

date: 2010-03-11 19:55:09

US President Barack Obama has urged China to change its currency strategy to help re-balance the global economy.

date: 2010-03-11 10:43:55

The merits of inflation as a solution to the rich world’s problems are easily overstatedIT HAS long been considered a scourge, an obstacle to investment and a tax on the thrifty. It seems strange, then, that inflation is now touted as a solution to the rich world’s economic troubles. At ...

date: 2010-03-11 10:43:55

Why independent candidates may yet break the political mouldESTHER RANTZEN gestures at the gaslit machines in Wright’s hat factory in Luton. The iron machines are more than 100 years old, but the aluminium moulds on which the hats are shaped are new. “The queen may favour it, but I ...

date: 2010-03-11 10:43:55

Giving parents a real choiceBRENTWOOD in Essex is an unremarkable town, once derided as the most boring in Britain. It is home not only to Brentwood School, a moderately well-known independent school founded in 1558, but also to two more modern establishments: Sawyers Hall College and, five minutes ...

date: 2010-03-11 10:43:55

An infamous murder returns to the national consciousness, with worrying implicationsMOST eras have their symbolic murders: crimes that are not only terrible but seem also to reflect the nation’s pathologies. Victorian London had Jack the Ripper; modern Britain has the death of James Bulger, a ...

date: 2010-03-11 10:43:55

In the corporate-tax armoury the next government must pick carefullyWHAT do Shore Capital, a boutique financial firm, and Ineos, the remnant of various giant chemical companies, have in common? Both announced plans this month to move their headquarters to countries with lower taxes—Shore to ...

date: 2010-03-11 10:43:54

Najib wavers over undoing affirmative-action policiesWHEN Najib Razak took office last April as Malaysia’s prime minister, the timing could hardly have been worse. The export-led economy was in recession. The ruling coalition was in the dumps after an unprecedented near-defeat in elections in ...

date: 2010-03-11 09:41:44

Chinese inflation hit a 16-month high in February, leading to calls for the government to take measures to cool the economy.

date: 2010-03-11 09:30:59

Oil giant BP announces a $7bn (£4.7bn) deal that will allow it to begin exploring for oil off the coast of Brazil.

date: 2010-03-11 08:26:12

Carmaker Daihatsu, a subsidiary of Toyota, is recalling 274,551 vehicles in Japan because of a number of possible defects.

date: 2010-03-11 07:46:59

For once, the anniversary of a wartime battle in Latvia should pass off peacefullyTHAT March follows February is not a state secret, but it sometimes seems to come as a surprise to Latvian officials. Sometime in February, they notice that March 16th is approaching and start worrying, belatedly, ...

date: 2010-03-11 05:45:34

Eurocrats offer up half-baked ideas to prevent a future sovereign-debt scareNOW that Greece has given in to pressure from its peers for a more austere budget, the euro zone’s policy brass suddenly seems more sympathetic towards its most troubled member. On reflection, perhaps the fault with ...