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By Jim Brunsden and Rebecca Christie, Bloomberg |
May 14, 2013
The European Central Bank clashed with Germany over how the European Union will handle struggling banks and whether to create a common agency and fund to manage failures.
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By Justin Pugsley |
April 12, 2013
It is certainly looking like gold has lost its mojo. When a market no longer responds with higher prices to events that are normally seen as a positive, then it is generally a signal that a once bullish trend is over.
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By Sandrine Rastello |
March 12, 2013
The IMF's No. 2 official urged policy makers to clean up banks and strengthen oversight of their financial systems.
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By Justin Pugsley |
February 6, 2013
The markets were given a sharp reminder of the euro's weakness at the beginning of the week as political problems once again flared up. But such eruptions have actually proved beneficial for the single currency over the long-term.
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By John Detrixhe and Matt Robinson, Bloomberg |
December 17, 2012
The global bond market disagreed with Moody’s Investors Service and Standard & Poor’s more often than not this year when the companies told investors that governments were becoming safer or more risky.
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By Bill Gross |
October 2, 2012
Studies by the CBO, IMF and BIS (when averaged) suggest that we need to cut spending or raise taxes by 11% of GDP and rather quickly over the next five to 10 years.
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By Cheyenne Hopkins, Bloomberg |
September 25, 2012
New financial regulations have yet to make markets safer and financial systems are still too complex, according to an International Monetary Fund report.
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By Alanna Byrne, Daniel P. Collins |
August 27, 2012
As we approach the four-year anniversary of Lehman Brothers’ collapse, the current administration has done little to reduce the systemic risk inherent in our financial system.
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By Liz Capo McCormick, Bloomberg |
May 31, 2012
Bill Gross, who runs the world’s biggest bond fund at Pacific Investment Management Co., said the lower quality of sovereign debt represents a threat to the global monetary system.
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By Lilian Karunungan and Yumi Teso, Bloomberg |
May 30, 2012
Just three months ago, emerging nations from Indonesia to Brazil were intervening in foreign exchange markets to make exports more competitive. Now they are selling dollars to stem currency declines and quell inflation.
