A new era at Goldman Sachs starts in the shadow of a scandal
20 April 2019, 1:00 am
Can the bank reinvent itself?
Is the world economy still slowbalising?
20 April 2019, 1:00 am
Properly measured, the “China shock” looks less bad
Bond maturities are the result of a tug-of-war
20 April 2019, 1:00 am
On one side is cost; on the other, uncertainty
Shinzo Abe, Japan’s prime minister, is determined to raise sales taxes
20 April 2019, 1:00 am
That risks snuffing out already sputtering growth
American banks’ earnings are boosted by retail business
20 April 2019, 1:00 am
Markets sparkled, but that’s not where the money was
Where growth is concerned, is population destiny?
17 April 2019, 1:00 am
New research suggests that, in the very long run, size is a great advantage
China’s growth is set to perk up after a decade low
17 April 2019, 1:00 am
Rising credit and an infrastructure programme point to a coming rebound
A new era at Goldman Sachs starts in the shadow of a scandal
15 April 2019, 1:00 am
Can the bank reinvent itself?
How HDFC breaks the dismal pattern of Indian banking
13 April 2019, 1:00 am
Its growth and profits put it in an elite global club
The World Bank’s new boss will struggle to impose himself
13 April 2019, 1:00 am
Some of David Malpass’s aims for the lender are at odds with each other
Cross-border credit reporting is at last becoming a reality
13 April 2019, 1:00 am
A Californian startup is helping migrants import their financial histories to America
Mario Draghi’s successor at the ECB has plenty to do
13 April 2019, 1:00 am
The ECB has come into its own, but 2019 will still be a momentous year
How not to weaken central banks’ independence
13 April 2019, 1:00 am
Why Stephen Moore and Herman Cain are poor picks for the Fed
Reserve managers’ relationship with the dollar is unhealthy
11 April 2019, 1:00 am
They may try to diversify, but the global currency will drag them back
Fintech takes aim at the steep cost of international money transfers
11 April 2019, 1:00 am
High-street banks and bureaus will soon have to come clear about hidden costs
Islami Bank Bangladesh has declined since a boardroom coup in 2017
6 April 2019, 1:00 am
It is now more similar to the country’s other crony-ridden banks
Investing in fine wine
5 April 2019, 1:00 am
More people than ever seek to uncork a profit
How to fix Europe’s lenders
4 April 2019, 3:45 pm
Europe needs its banks to perform better
Rising inequality could explain tepid support for redistribution
4 April 2019, 3:45 pm
The lessons of a new paper about welfare in Victorian England
Trade talks will probably end with tariffs still in place
4 April 2019, 3:45 pm
Americans will pay for them
2019 Marjorie Deane finance internship
4 April 2019, 3:45 pm
What self-help lending says about Ethiopian banking
4 April 2019, 3:45 pm
The popularity of ekub shows that formal financial institutions need to shape up
The gloom hanging over the world economy is confined to manufacturing
4 April 2019, 3:45 pm
Service industries have defied the sinking mood
How betting on oil prices greases the industry’s wheels
4 April 2019, 1:00 am
The message from futures markets is that high spot prices will not last
The IMF adds to a chorus of concern about competition
4 April 2019, 1:00 am
A new study adds to worries about market power
Simple interactions can have unpredictable consequences
4 April 2019, 1:00 am
How researchers are grappling with the fundamental complexity of economics
How emerging-market local-currency bonds might fit in your portfolio
30 March 2019, 12:00 am
Their appeal lies in their distinctiveness
The Inter-American Development Bank cancels its big bash in China
28 March 2019, 3:42 pm
Juan Guaidó’s choice of delegate was unacceptable to the hosts
How Argentina and Japan continue to confound macroeconomists
28 March 2019, 3:42 pm
Bold new policy frameworks have failed to break long-standing habits
Why is inflation in America so low?
28 March 2019, 3:42 pm
The puzzle that never really went away
How to solve southern Italy’s unemployment problem
28 March 2019, 3:42 pm
Borrowing Germany’s model of wage bargaining would help
A money-laundering scandal costs Swedbank’s boss her job
28 March 2019, 12:00 am
The board of Sweden’s oldest bank decided that Birgitte Bonnesen’s time was up
Flaws in Bitcoin make a lasting revival unlikely
28 March 2019, 12:00 am
The latest boom and bust invite comparisons with past financial manias
Slower growth in ageing economies is not inevitable
28 March 2019, 12:00 am
But avoiding it means tough policy choices
A dispiriting survey of women’s lot in university economics
23 March 2019, 12:00 am
#EconomistsToo
Why book value has lost its meaning
23 March 2019, 12:00 am
The trouble with intangibles
FIS’s $43bn takeover of Worldpay
23 March 2019, 12:00 am
The scramble to build global payment systems
Commerzbank and Deutsche Bank start discussing a merger
21 March 2019, 3:41 pm
The smaller bank’s bargaining power has risen
Alan Krueger, natural talent
21 March 2019, 12:00 am
A quiet revolutionary of economics died on March 16th
FIS and Worldpay agree on a $43bn merger
18 March 2019, 12:00 am
The race to create a global payments giant is shifting up a gear
David Autor, the academic voice of the American worker
16 March 2019, 12:00 am
From automation to China, the economist has forced a reassessment of how labour markets respond to disruption
Euro-zone fiscal policy is easing for the first time in a decade
16 March 2019, 12:00 am
But too little will be spent, and on the wrong things
How to be a rock-star bond investor
14 March 2019, 3:43 pm
Bill Gross, Rolling Stone
Wells Fargo takes a pasting, from Congress and a regulator
14 March 2019, 3:43 pm
Another bad day for Tim Sloan
The struggle to restore Turkey’s stricken economy
14 March 2019, 3:43 pm
The effects of mismanagement will linger
Indians may be falling out of love with gold
14 March 2019, 3:43 pm
A weak rupee, a high gold price and changing fashions all play a part
China’s current-account surplus has vanished
14 March 2019, 3:43 pm
A deficit could remake the financial system, if the government lets it
Is modern monetary theory nutty or essential?
14 March 2019, 12:00 am
Some eminent economists think the former
The London Stock Exchange is thriving despite Brexit
9 March 2019, 12:00 am
Europe’s largest trading venue has become a data business
China’s trading day is starting to influence global markets
9 March 2019, 12:00 am
The importance of opening time in Shanghai
Prices of prime properties around the world are falling
7 March 2019, 3:49 pm
Swanky homes are now a global asset class
More banks are caught up in money-laundering scandals
7 March 2019, 3:49 pm
The aftershocks of the Danske affair
National development banks are back in vogue
7 March 2019, 3:49 pm
They want to be profitable, but are ill-equipped for the job
Spooked by slowdown, the ECB rolls out stimulus
7 March 2019, 12:00 am
No interest-rate rise this year, and more cheap loans for banks
Why did the China shock hurt so much?
7 March 2019, 12:00 am
For the same reason that earlier ones hurt less
Italy’s “citizens’ income” programme may be expensive and ineffective
7 March 2019, 12:00 am
But a governing party hopes for a political payout
China’s economy might be nearly a seventh smaller than reported
7 March 2019, 12:00 am
A new study examines tax revenues to revise down growth estimates
Commerzbank and Deutsche Bank would gain little by merging
2 March 2019, 12:00 am
Low interest rates and the three-pillar system squish profits
Will a worsening outlook for inflation force the ECB to act?
28 February 2019, 3:42 pm
Some on its governing council may still prefer to wait and see
The Federal Reserve reviews its monetary-policy framework
28 February 2019, 3:42 pm
Are there better ways for it to meet its inflation target?
Governments use receipt lotteries to boost tax compliance
28 February 2019, 3:42 pm
They make it harder for businesses to evade value-added taxes
New data sources make it harder for executives to mislead investors
28 February 2019, 3:42 pm
How to cross-check Elon Musk
Why a global manufacturing slump is a recurring threat
28 February 2019, 12:00 am
China’s on-and-off efforts to curb lending spill over to the rest of the world
Narendra Modi’s most distinctive economic policies were his worst
28 February 2019, 12:00 am
His economic policies have not broken with the past
A gamble in France could cost UBS dear
23 February 2019, 12:00 am
A court in France fines the Swiss bank €3.7bn for tax evasion
Countries are seeking help to deal with corporate tax avoidance
21 February 2019, 3:49 pm
Avoidance hits poorer countries particularly hard
A surprising number of North Korean refugees send money home
21 February 2019, 3:49 pm
But it is risky and expensive
Why private equity appeals
21 February 2019, 3:49 pm
It offers investors smoother returns, and a way around debt constraints
The global soyabean market has been upended
21 February 2019, 3:49 pm
There may be permanent effects
Germany’s regulator bans short-selling in Wirecard
21 February 2019, 3:49 pm
The firm’s share price slid after allegations of false accounting surfaced
A new book argues weakened communities threaten liberal democracy
21 February 2019, 12:00 am
Raghuram Rajan’s “The Third Pillar” says that society matters
Lebanon nominates Ziad Hayek for World Bank boss
20 February 2019, 12:00 am
Though as qualified as America’s nominee, David Malpass, Mr Hayek stands little chance
Men still pick “blue” jobs and women “pink” jobs
16 February 2019, 12:00 am
Does it matter that the labour market is so sex-segregated?
When trouble strikes, where should you hide? The case for gold
16 February 2019, 12:00 am
The Grand Central theory of markets
The biggest bank merger since the crisis may herald more
16 February 2019, 12:00 am
American banking has become a battle of scale
Signs of progress in China-US trade talks, but gaps remain big
16 February 2019, 12:00 am
Negotiations hinge on how to enforce China’s pledges
Bill and Melinda Gates publish their annual letter
16 February 2019, 12:00 am
“Miraculous” progress in global health, frustration over education
Finland’s basic-income trial did not much affect work incentives
14 February 2019, 3:43 pm
But it made participants happier
What would happen if Facebook were turned off?
14 February 2019, 12:00 am
Imagine a world without the social network
Malaysia’s former prime minister faces trial in the 1MDB scandal
9 February 2019, 12:00 am
Goldman Sachs could be fined billions of dollars
Germany’s long expansion comes under threat
9 February 2019, 12:00 am
The slowing is a consequence of its export-oriented model
What happens when your bitcoin banker dies?
9 February 2019, 12:00 am
Apparently you can take it with you after all
America’s public pension plans make over-optimistic return assumptions
7 February 2019, 3:53 pm
That pushes them into riskier investments
Some fights about the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act seem over
7 February 2019, 3:53 pm
The biggest one may never be won
The benefits of better credit-risk models will be spread unevenly
7 February 2019, 3:53 pm
Machine-learning models show the disquieting effect of finer judgments
Bill Gross, the king of the bond market, abdicates
7 February 2019, 12:00 am
As the returns vanished, investors lost faith
A bold new plan to tackle climate change ignores economic orthodoxy
7 February 2019, 12:00 am
The Green New Deal touted by Democrats largely dispenses with cost-benefit analysis
BB&T and SunTrust announce a merger
7 February 2019, 12:00 am
The biggest bank deal in America since the financial crisis
A commission of inquiry reaches a damning verdict on Australia’s banks
7 February 2019, 12:00 am
Yet the forced restructuring banks had feared is off the cards
Donald Trump picks David Malpass to run the World Bank
5 February 2019, 12:00 am
If the nomination passes, the bank will be led by one of its fiercest critics
Italy’s slump reflects trouble both at home and abroad
2 February 2019, 12:00 am
The weak economy complicates a fraught fiscal position
Value investing is long on virtue but has been short on reward
2 February 2019, 12:00 am
Value indices can seem like dumping grounds for problem industries
An overbanked region sees some welcome consolidation
31 January 2019, 3:43 pm
But how far will it go?
Puerto Rico’s biggest bank came out of Hurricane Maria stronger
31 January 2019, 3:43 pm
Even as people leave the island, Popular’s customer base has swelled
Illicit financial flows are hard to stop
31 January 2019, 3:43 pm
They are even harder to measure
Conflicts in the credit-derivatives market threaten to undermine it
31 January 2019, 3:43 pm
A ruling on the exact meaning of a complex contract surprises markets
Hyperinflations can end quickly, given the right sort of regime change
31 January 2019, 12:00 am
For long-suffering Venezuelans, that cannot come too soon
A new initiative aims to modernise global trading rules
31 January 2019, 12:00 am
It will pit the world’s big powers against each other
Investors fear that the unwinding of QE is causing market turbulence
24 January 2019, 3:45 pm
The Fed wanted its balance-sheet policy to be dull. It is anything but
The market for cyber-insurance is growing
24 January 2019, 3:45 pm
But computer risks are harder to handle than physical ones
