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  The euro area’s economy loses momentum

  ECONOMISTS have spent the past decade wringing their hands over the health of the euro area’s economy. Last year, in a welcome respite, it expanded by a robust 2.3%, outstripping forecasts and…

  • 28. 4. 2018
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  Crypto money-laundering

  AS LONG as dirty money has been around, so has money-laundering. Between $800bn and $2trn, or 2-5% of global GDP, is washed annually, estimates the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. Criminals…

  • 27. 4. 2018
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  Indicators that signal financial-market trouble are flashing

  WATCHING financial markets can be like watching a horror film. A character walks into the darkness alone. A floorboard creaks. The latest spooky sign is the spread between the three-month dollar…

  • 21. 4. 2018
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  Coco bonds have not lived up to their promise

  DURING the financial crisis, Western governments poured hundreds of billions of dollars into their banks to avert collapse. The search for ways to avoid future bail-outs started before the turmoil…

  • 20. 4. 2018
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  Six precepts every investor should remember

  SIR ELTON JOHN has a three-year farewell tour planned. This columnist has only a few weeks to go, before heading off to a new Economist beat. So it seems like a good idea to summarise some of the…

  • 19. 4. 2018
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  American sanctions, and fears over Syria, roil Russian markets

  ON APRIL 6th America imposed harsh new sanctions on Russia in response to its “malign activity” abroad. Rattled investors sent stocks tumbling when the Moscow exchange reopened on April 9th. The…

  • 13. 4. 2018
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  An update from Jeremy Grantham

  JEREMY GRANTHAM is an investor with 50 years of experience in the markets who is known for his caution about the outlook for long-term returns (he works for the GMO fund management group). But he…

  • 11. 4. 2018
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  The choice of a boss for the New York Fed ends in a familiar way

  John Williams: a neutral answerTHE president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York is perhaps the second most important person in America’s financial hierarchy, behind only the chairman of the…

  • 6. 4. 2018
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  Insurance and the gig economy

  THE rise of the gig economy means not only workers, but those who insure them, are having to adapt. Take third-party liability insurance—the sort that would pay out if, for instance, a courier hit…

  • 6. 4. 2018
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