IMF to buy Gold worth $2.3 billion as credit risk increases   The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is planning to purchase more than $2 billion worth of gold on account of rising global ris...

  Intervju med banken HSBC’s globale valutasjef David Bloom   I lang tid har storbanken HSBC sin globale valutasjef David Bloom uttrykt sin beundring for norske kroner, som han hyller som de...

  Schaeuble Dares Greece Exit as Contingency Plans Start   As German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble dares Greece to quit the euro, investors and economists are mapping out what he and fe...

  Goldman Stands By Gold-Rally Forecast Even as Price Drops   Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS) stood by its forecast for a rally in gold this year, saying that the precious metal will advance to ...

  Merkel says "growth on credit" would deepen crisis   Chancellor Angela Merkel rejected calls from her centre-left opponents in Germany and Europe for economic stimulus policies that rel...

New Documents Shine Light on Euro Birth Defects   In response to a request by SPIEGEL, the German government has, for the first time, released hundreds of pages of documents from 1994 to 1998 on...

  Spain Signals U-Turn, May Pump Public Funds into Banks   Spain may pump public funds into its banking system to revive lending and its recessionary economy, Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said...

  Diskusjon om tilstanden til verdensøkonomien i regi av The Milken Institute   I regi av The Milken Institute holder de en paneldebatt med fem ledende forvaltere: Wolfgang Alkier (Absolute R...

  PBS nett TV dokumentar om hva som egentlig skjedde under finanskrisen   Den amerikanske mediekjempen PBS har lagd en dokumentarserie på fire episoder om hva som egentlig skjedde under finan...

  Europe’s Anti-Austerity Calls Mount as Elections Near   A recession in Spain and forecasts of rising unemployment in the 17-nation euro area are amplifying criticism of the German-led aus...

  Gold Traders Get More Bullish as Central Banks Hoard More   Gold traders are more bullish after central banks expanded their bullion reserves andhedge funds increased bets on a rally for the...

  Cost of Spain’s Housing Bust Could Force a Bailout   By any measure, the Spanish real estate boom was one of the headiest ever. Spurred by record-low interest rates, Spaniards piled into h...

  Jeg er bekymret for Europas skjebne   Sjeføkonom Knut Anton Mork i Handelsbanken frykter at en hel generasjon arbeidsledige i Sør-Europa kan sette demokratiet i fare og sende Europa i en f...

  Europe's Rescue Plan Falters - Banks in Troubled Countries Close to Exhausting Money Injected to Ease Crisis   Europe's bold program to defuse its financial crisis by injecting cash into the...

  IMF Says European Banks May Have to Sell $3.8 Trillion in Assets   European banks could be forced to sell as much as $3.8 trillion in assets through 2013 and curb lending if governments fal...

  IMF: Euro Break-Up Cannot Be Ruled Out   The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has for the first time accepted the prospect of the euro breaking up. In its flagship economic survey of the wo...

  "Not if, but when" for Spanish bailout, experts believe   Economic experts watching Spain don't know how much money will be needed or precisely when, but some are near certain that Madrid wi...

  People Have Lost Faith In the 20th Century Religion Of Government Backed Fiat Money   Matthew Bishop, the US Editor of The Economist, has been interviewed by the Wall Street Journal TV about...

  Italy puts back balanced budget goal by a year   Italy will delay by a year its plan to balance the budget in 2013 due to a weakening economic outlook, according to a draft document due to b...

  Rehn says Portugal may need "bridge"   European policymakers should be ready to provide more help to Portugal some time in the future, European Economic and Monetary Affairs Commissioner Ol...

  Jean-Claude Trichet første intervju siden han gikk av som leder for ECB   M. Trichet has lived through the entire story of the euro. He was head of the French Treasury when the Maastricht T...

  EU Nears One-Year Rescue Boost to EU940 Billion, Draft Says   European governments are preparing for a one-year increase in the ceiling on rescue aid to 940 billion euros ($1.3 trillion) to ...

  Brazil to rally BRICS against rich countries   Brazil will push for its large emerging-market peers including China to denounce what it sees as unfair monetary policies by Europe and the Uni...

  Fed Hosts Global Gathering on Easy Money   Quantitative-easing programs "stimulate the economy by reducing credit costs," concludes Mark Gertler, a New York University professor, in a paper ...