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New York banking gains on London

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.

source: news.bbc.co.uk

Obama urges China action on yuan

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.

source: news.bbc.co.uk

Economics focus: The inflation solution

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 ...

source: www.economist.com

Independents for Parliament: Out with the old

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 ...

source: www.economist.com

Failing schools: For whom the bell tolls

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 ...

source: www.economist.com

Bagehot: No escape

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 ...

source: www.economist.com

Taxing companies: Choose your weapons

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 ...

source: www.economist.com

Economic reform in Malaysia: Out with the new

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 ...

source: www.economist.com

China inflation at 16-month high

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.

source: news.bbc.co.uk

BP to explore for oil in Brazil

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.

source: news.bbc.co.uk

Daihatsu recalling cars in Japan

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.

source: news.bbc.co.uk

Europe.view: Harmony in Riga

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, ...

source: www.economist.com

Sovereign debt and the euro: All for one

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 ...

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Obama urges China action on yuan

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.

source: news.bbc.co.uk

Economics focus: The inflation solution

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 ...

source: www.economist.com

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Independents for Parliament: Out with the old

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 ...

source: www.economist.com

Failing schools: For whom the bell tolls

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 ...

source: www.economist.com

Bagehot: No escape

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 ...

source: www.economist.com


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China denies World Cup sweatshop

date: 2010-03-10 15:31:26

A Shanghai company denies it used sweatshop labour to produce World Cup mascots, as Fifa suspends its manufacturing contract.

source: news.bbc.co.uk

The Israel-Palestine peace process: More than just a charade?

date: 2010-03-10 15:26:49

The Israeli-Palestinian peace process resumes, after a fashionIT WAS a wretched beginning to what had been hailed as the hopeful resumption of peace talks, albeit indirect ones, between the Israelis and ...

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Airlines offer to give up slots

date: 2010-03-10 14:16:02

British Airways, American Airlines and Iberia offer to give up take off and landing slots in London and New York, say EU watchdogs.

source: news.bbc.co.uk

Life insurance: Snoopy sniffs an opportunity

date: 2010-03-10 07:38:03

AIG reluctantly hands its crown as America’s global life insurer to MetLife ANOTHER week, another opportunity for AIG’s rivals to expand at the American insurer’s expense. Days after sealing ...

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EU concern over end of tanker bid

date: 2010-03-09 22:44:03

Brussels says it hopes European aerospace group EADS was not prevented from fairly bidding for a major US defence deal.

source: news.bbc.co.uk

Aer Lingus to make 670 job cuts

date: 2010-03-09 18:47:28

Aer Lingus announces plans to lay off 670 staff, including nearly a quarter of its cabin crew, as part of restructuring plans.

source: news.bbc.co.uk

EADS and America: Accusations fly

date: 2010-03-09 13:38:38

Did protectionism force EADS to scrap a $35 billion bid to supply the American air force?THE announcement on Monday March 8th that Northrop Grumman and its European partner EADS were pulling out of a bid for a ...

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