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Finance & Economics

Banks in trouble

The game is up 

In a special section, we look at how trouble in the credit markets has led to a crisis of confidence in global financeAug 16th 2007

    A liquidity squeeze

    Bankers' mistrust 

    Central banks struggle to prevent money markets from drying upAug 16th 2007

    Funding difficulties

    A conduit to nowhere 

    Even conservative banks are rumbled by risky credit-arbitrage fundsAug 16th 2007

    Hedge funds

    Behind the veil 

    Big market losses provide insights into a volatile financial worldAug 16th 2007

    Financial contagion

    Mortgage flu 

    Turmoil in America's mortgage market has spread far and wideAug 16th 2007

    Japanese foreign exchange

    Not-yet-desperate housewives 

    Is Mrs Watanabe doing her bit for global stability?Aug 16th 2007

    A credit crunch in cyberspace

    Trouble in paradise 

    The banking crisis finds an echo in Second LifeAug 16th 2007

    Articles from previous editions

    Monetary policy

    It ain't easy 

    Despite the recent turbulence in the credit markets, the Federal Reserve holds fire on interest ratesAug 9th 2007

    Asset-backed securities

    Sold down the river Rhine 

    A German lender succumbs to perverse incentives. Who's next?Aug 9th 2007

    Investment banking

    Faith healing 

    Wall Street banks will find it hard fully to regain the market's trustAug 9th 2007

    Buttonwood

    Prime movers 

    Beware the fragile relationship between prime brokers and hedge fundsAug 9th 2007

    Chinese lenders

    Black-market banking 

    Worried about illicit lending, China discovers a big underground bankAug 9th 2007

    Personal finance

    The boomers' babies 

    How to make financial products appealing to the savers of the futureAug 9th 2007

    Correction: The dollar 

    Aug 9th 2007

    BRIEFING: The credit squeeze

    Abandon ship 

    Investors sail into a credit storm amid worries about the debt marketsAug 2nd 2007

    BRIEFING: The effect on financial firms

    Holiday horrors 

    There are losers, but some winners tooAug 2nd 2007

    Tax reform

    Overhauling the old jalopy 

    Tax competition is starting to hurt America. But can Uncle Sam muster the political will to fight back against his tax-cutting foreign rivals?Aug 2nd 2007

    Hedge funds

    All locked-up 

    Once investors fought to get into hedge funds. Now some may be fighting to get outAug 2nd 2007

    Buttonwood

    Cold Turkey 

    Why some emerging markets may suffer from withdrawalAug 2nd 2007

    Catastrophe bonds

    Ports and storms 

    Retail investors bet that nature will be calmer than the marketsAug 2nd 2007

    China's economy

    Be careful what you wish for 

    Is inflation China's latest export?Aug 2nd 2007

    Read a special report on international banking
    A special report on international banking

    The alchemists of finance 

    Global investment banks are taking ever more risk, and are devising ever more sophisticated ways of spreading it, says Henry Tricks. Is that reassuring or worrying?

    Read the most recent column by Buttonwood
    Buttonwood

    Prime movers 

    Beware the fragile relationship between prime brokers and hedge fundsAug 9th 2007

    Economics Focus more about economics »

    What would Bagehot do? 

    Should central banks act as buyers of last resort?Aug 16th 2007

    The mandarins of money 

    Aug 9th 2007

    In praise of usury 

    Aug 2nd 2007

    Finance and economic tools

    Economics A-Z

    Searchable definitions

    Currencies

    Converters, the Big Mac Index, and other tools

    Articles from previous editions, continued...

    Sovereign-wealth funds

    Keep your T-bonds, we'll take the bank 

    The governments of China and Singapore take stakes in Barclays, giving some clues about how sovereign investors plan to operateJul 26th 2007

    Buttonwood

    Spreading caution 

    The credit market suffers from a spot of apprehension and indigestionJul 26th 2007

    Bond insurers

    A monoline meltdown? 

    A hedge fund stalks subprime's next potential victimJul 26th 2007

    China's economy

    It doesn't add up 

    Fears that China's economy is overheating are exaggeratedJul 26th 2007

    Equity research

    Trading favours 

    Analyst for sale. Price: membership of a good clubJul 26th 2007

    Wildfire insurance

    Burnt out 

    George Bush is not the only one clearing brushJul 26th 2007

    Banking

    All together now 

    Regulators in America have agreed on new banking rules at lastJul 26th 2007

    Monetary policy

    Allowing himself a smile 

    In the past year, Ben Bernanke has shown a deft touch at the Fed, but the economy may be weaker than he thinks it is Jul 19th 2007

    Buttonwood

    Vanishing vigilantes 

    Why the markets may be undermining central banks Jul 19th 2007

    Private equity

    Walker's way 

    An unpopular industry considers self-policingJul 19th 2007

    Austrian banks

    Viennese cocktail 

    Bankers on trial for a grand scandalJul 19th 2007

    The oil price

    The visible hand on the tap 

    OPEC is back in charge of the oil priceJul 19th 2007

    Accountancy

    Bearing it all 

    The perils of derivatives and fair-value accountingJul 19th 2007

    Correction: Big Mac Index 

    Jul 19th 2007

    Read a special report on offshore finance
    A special report on offshore finance

    Places in the sun 

    Offshore financial centres are booming, thanks to their easy-going tax regimes. But the best of them are more than tax havens: they are good for the global financial system, argues Joanne Ramos

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