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Expect some seat-squirming at the CBI as Lord Turner, FSA chairman, unveils his regulatory game plan Lord Turner is not a popular man these days. Sitting on the seventh floor of the FSA's Canary Wharf headquarters, in the...
Welcome to the Weekly Market Views report from DGCX, providing you with a snapshot of what?s happening in the energy, precious metal and currency futures markets. Please note that the observations and views expressed in this...
Reuters - The independence of the Federal Reserve is essential for credible monetary policy and doubts about the U.S. central bank's ability to do its job without political interference could hurt the nascent economic recovery,...
We are in the midst of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. More than 27 million American workers are either unemployed, underemployed or have given up looking for work. The immediate cause of this economic...
The word “nutter” and Bank of England are only occasionally used in the same sentence. It was used soon after Bank independence in 1997 when Diane Abbott, the Labour MP, accused the governor, then Eddie George, of being an...
With no signs of green shoots, Mervyn King is right to be downbeat - whatever the Queen said So: the government has a fiscal plan, confirmed by the Queen, under which it will halve the budget deficit in four years and eliminate...
Published Date: 22 November 2009 ADOUBLE whammy of rising prices and higher taxes is facing everyone in the UK. As measured by the Consumer Prices Index, which excludes all housing costs, and is the government's preferred...
By Christina Fincher LONDON (Reuters) - Regulators need more tools to prevent the build-up of risks in the financial system but it would be unrealistic to think all asset bubbles can be prevented, according to a Bank of England...
by William Pesek on Sunday, 22 November 2009 It's a, well, golden opportunity. As these well-known market personalities duke it out, they're doing us a favour by highlighting a critical debate: Which is the bigger threat -...
Under pressure from the Bush administration, the Alan Greenspan-led Federal Reserve created massive amounts of fiat money. It financed the largest asset boom in history. In turn, this precipitated the recent deleveraging and...
