date: 2010-02-04 10:41:47

Mortgage lenders’ past sins catch up with themDURING the boom, American banks spent surplus profits on share buybacks. Now they are being forced into repurchases of a nastier kind: securitised mortgages ...

date: 2010-02-04 10:41:47

Plans are afoot to create a new capital market in longevity riskDEATH comes to everyone. The timing is much less certain. Longevity risk, the risk that people will live longer than expected, weighs heavily on ...

date: 2010-02-04 10:41:47

The markets, and developed economies, are too dependent on government actionAS JANUARY goes, so goes the year. That old stockmarket saying does not augur well for 2010, given that the MSCI World index fell by ...

date: 2010-02-04 10:41:47

Some developing economies are rich but crude, while others are poor but sophisticatedONCE a sleepy fishing port, the industrial city of Yanbu, on Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea coast, is now a monument to the ...

date: 2010-02-04 10:41:47

In “Fading trading” (January 30th) we said that rich countries’ GDP shrank by 3.2% in 2010. We meant 2009. Sorry. This has been corrected online. ...

date: 2010-02-04 10:33:00

It’s time for another round of euro-zone sovereign bond whack-a-mole.

date: 2010-02-04 09:08:49

TOKYO (Reuters) - Foreign investors have been snapping up Japanese shares at the fastest pace in two years, bargain-hunting blue-chips after the market lagged the rest of Asia in 2009, but the buying is ...