Banking & Finance
When might it burst? Nobody knows if it will. The Shanghai Composite Index has surged 45 percent this year. Just because China has deep pockets in this time of global crisis doesn't mean its economic health supports this rally.
Banking & Finance
Did pension debts ruin General Motors?
Banking & Finance
How is it where you are? Do you see any positive signs yet? Are the green shoots of recovery beginning to spring up? asks Damian Reilly.
Banking & Finance
You may not believe it, but GM is a good guy - at least on the silver screen where GM cars are the heroes of Transformers 2, says Andrew White.
Banking & Finance
May saw mixed messages for the financial sector in the Gulf region - oil prices are rising, the Dubai Financial Market hit a 23-week high, and there are reports of renewed hiring in the sector.
Banking & Finance
Is it still a monetary union if you’re the only country left? That’s what Saudi finance officials may be wondering.
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Can't pay just yet? Do not pass immigration; go directly to jail. How's that for flexibility, asks Andrew White.
Banking & Finance
Talk of redundancies in the Gulf seems to have quietened. Is it merely a mid-quarter lull, or are the optimists right when they tell us the worst is behind us? The vast majority of the UAE’s private sector comprises expatriate labourers, both blue collar and white. This is a blessing and a curse.
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Though some experts are seeing "green shoots" of recovery, "we aren't out of the woods yet", says Matthew Lynn.
Banking & Finance
The US financial crisis is a test for those who put reputation above anything else.
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Madoff’s aides should be liable if their ignorance cost others billions, says Ann Woolner.
Banking & Finance
Banks need to change their attitudes to lending and change it fast, agrees Anil Bhoyrul.
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The wise men of Washington keep finding more core beliefs that we have to give up. First it was free markets. Now it’s democracy.
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More than three months after the end of the Gaza crisis, the Israeli blockade is hampering aid efforts, notes Andrew White.
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The elephant in the room is the public sector, and the ‘easy alternative’ that path represents, says Andrew White.
Banking & Finance
As CEO Middle East goes to press, contrite AIG executives, some of them at least, are doing the unthinkable: returning their bonuses.
Banking & Finance
Madoff deserves a more psychically satisfying punishment than rotting in a prison cell, says Alice Schroeder.
Banking & Finance
Pressure will intensify on firms unable or unwilling to publish their year earnings, Andrew White says.
Banking & Finance
As the global recession bites deeper and deeper, nobody is in any doubt that fewer players will be left on the banking stage a year from now.
Banking & Finance
Andrew White argues that the days of the business class only airlines are numbered.
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