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A decade after it hit, what was learnt from the Great Recession?

TEN years ago this month, America entered the “Great Recession”. A decade on, the recession occupies a strange space in public memory. Its toll was clearly large. America suffered a cumulative loss…
- 15. 12. 2017
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Cars, jewels, wine and watches have been good investments

DIAMONDS, they say, are for ever. They can be pricey, too. On December 5th 173 lots of jewels auctioned by Sotheby’s raised $54m. They included several pieces belonging to Sean Connery, known for…
- 15. 12. 2017
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Putting a price on Bitcoin

SCENE: A pet shop with a bored looking proprietor. A customer approachesCUSTOMER: I’d like to buy a parrot.OWNER: Certainly, sir. How about this one? It’s a Norwegian Blue. Beautiful plumage.CUSTOMER…
- 9. 12. 2017
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The markets believe in Goldilocks

ANOTHER week, another record. The repeated surge of share prices on Wall Street is getting monotonous. The Dow Jones Industrial Average has passed another milestone—24,000—and the more statistically…
- 8. 12. 2017
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Republicans grouse about tax models they once supported

THEY have been at this a long time. In 1994 Republicans, newly in charge of Congress, held hearings on what would come to be called “dynamic scoring”. Bills, they said, should be evaluated using the…
- 2. 12. 2017
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As bitcoin’s price passes $10,000, its rise seems unstoppable

MOST money these days is electronic—a series of ones and zeros on a computer. So it is rather neat that bitcoin, a privately created electronic currency, has lurched from $1,000 to above $10,000 this…
- 1. 12. 2017
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Sustainable investment joins the mainstream

IN 2008, when she was in her mid-20s and sitting on a $500m inheritance, Liesel Pritzker Simmons asked her bankers about “impact investing”. They fobbed her off. “They didn’t understand what I meant…
- 25. 11. 2017
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Timelier provisions may make banks’ profits and lending choppier

IN THE first quarter of 2018 thousands of banks will look a little less profitable. A new international accounting standard, IFRS 9, will oblige lenders in more than 120 countries, including the…
- 21. 11. 2017
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Britain’s 1970s retread

THE strange 1970s revival in Britain has another twist. The main focus has been on the Labour party which, under Jeremy Corbyn, wants to return to the era marked by nationalisation and higher taxes.…
- 16. 11. 2017
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The New York Fed’s president announces his retirement

He never really took the bull by the hornsAPPLICATIONS sought for leading Wall Street post. Duties: important role in setting interest rates (some vaguely defined other responsibilities). Perks:…
- 10. 11. 2017
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Investors call the end of the government-bond bull market (again)

FOR the umpteenth time in the past decade, a great turning-point has been declared in the government-bond market. Bond yields have risen across the world, including in China, where the yield on the…
- 3. 11. 2017
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As the global economy picks up, inflation is oddly quiescent

A FEW years ago, the news about the euro-zone economy was uniformly bad to the point of tedium. These days, it is the humdrum diet of benign data that prompts a yawn. Figures this week show that GDP…
- 3. 11. 2017
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Silicon speculators

Nail-biting decisionsEXCHANGE-TRADED funds (ETFs) were supposed to make investing easy. Instead of spending hours researching individual stocks and bonds or paying an expert fund manager, investors…
- 28. 10. 2017
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On NAFTA, America, Canada and Mexico are miles apart

THESE are troubling times for Roberto Santana Flores, a Mexican maker of charro shirts, a modern take on the Mexican cowboy aesthetic. He recalls life before the North American Free-Trade Agreement …
- 20. 10. 2017
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Akciové indexy Dow Jones a S&P 500 si připsaly přes 4 procenta

New York 4. března (ČTK) - Americké akcie dnes prudce posílily a indexy Dow Jones a S&P 500 si připsaly přes čtyři procenta. Těžily z ú…

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Why a Labour government might mean a fall in sterling

THE British Labour Party is in buoyant mood at its annual conference, expecting to be in power very soon. And it has already started to think about the consequences, including a possible run on the…

28. 9. 2017

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The markets still have plenty to fret about

BULL markets always climb a wall of worry, or so the saying goes. For much of 2017, the main concerns were political and the markets seemed to surmount them as easily as a robot dog opens doors (the…

17. 2. 2018

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