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...

  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...

  U.K. Succumbs to First Double-Dip Recession Since 1970s   The U.K. economy shrank in the first quarter as Britain slid into its first double-dip recession since the 1970s, forcing Prime Mini...

  Central bankers snub euro assets – prefer gold   Among the most conservative of investors, central bankers keep much of their reserves in high quality euro and dollar denominated assets, s...

  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 ...

  Financial Repression Back to Stay: Carmen M. Reinhart   As they have before in the aftermath of financial crises or wars, governments and central banks are increasingly resorting to a form o...

  ECB Inflation Radar May Hinder Growth Efforts   Inflation is back on the European Central Bank’s radar, complicating efforts to bolster growth as the sovereign debt crisis pushes the econ...

  Britain's extreme QE is dangerously counter-productive   Members of the Monetary Policy Committee agreed to expand the UK’s “quantitative easing” program by another £50bn, taking the ...

  BOE Adds 50 Billion Pounds to Stimulus on Euro ‘Concerns’   Bank of England officials pumped another 50 billion pounds ($79 billion) into the U.K. economy to protect a nascent recovery f...

  Skagenfondene ser større gjeldsproblemer i USA og Japan enn Italia og Spania   Mens rentene på tiårige statsobligasjoner i Italia, Spania og Frankrike igår var henholdsvis 5,63 prosent, ...

  KWN intervjuer JM Eveillard, fondsforvalter av First Eagle fondene med 50 milliarder US$ under forvaltning   With advancing to the $1,680 level and silver firmly above $32, today King World ...

  Europe’s $39 Trillion Pension Threat Grows as Regional Economies Sputter   Even before the euro crisis, people were worried about Europe’s pension bomb. State-funded pension obligations...

  BOE Stimulus Expansion May Not Be Enough for Recovery, BCC Says   More Bank of England stimulus may not be enough to revive U.K. economic growth and the government must improve companies’ ...

  Bini Smaghi Says ECB Should Use QE If Deflation Risk Arises   European Central Bank Executive Board member Lorenzo Bini Smaghisaid that policy makers shouldn’t shirk from using quantitativ...

  Central banks fire the second barrel of QE   The financial markets are becoming ever more dependent on the continuing willingness of the central banks to use their balance sheets to rescue t...

  King Keeps Rate, Asset Plan Steady as Draghi’s ECB Considers Euro Turmoil   Bank of England officials maintained their current round of stimulus as European officials hold a summit on the ...

  Euro doomed from start, says Jacques Delors   In an interview with The Daily Telegraph, Jacques Delors, the former president of the European Commission, claims that errors made when the eur...

  UK central banks Mervyn King warns of ‘spiral’ into systemic crisis   Eurozone woes have created “an exceptionally threatening environment” as falling government bond prices, eroding...

  Fed, Five Central Banks Cut Rate on Dollar Swaps   The Federal Reserve cut the cost of emergency dollar funding for European banks as part of a globally coordinated central-bank response to...

  World's central banks act to ease market strains   Major central banks around the globe took coordinated action Wednesday to ease the strains on the world's financial system, saying they wou...

  Currency Traders Suffering Worst Year Since 1991 as FX’s Taylor Loses 12%   Currency-trading strategies are losing the most in two decades as the volatility that’s boosted volume and pro...

  Prepare for riots in euro collapse, the UK Foreign Office warns   British embassies in the eurozone have been told to draw up plans to help British expats through the collapse of the single ...

  Co-ordinated QE imminent after bund auction flop warns top manager   Wednesday’s dire auction of German bunds signals the ‘last domino’ to fall in the eurozone saga, we are now in the ...