• Cina

    The infrastructure of power

    AIIB careful with Avicenna CHINA’s growing global clout can be unsettling for the incumbents who must make room for it. At the same time, China’s recent financial tumult has been unnerving for the investors exposed to it. This combination of vastness and vulnerability has left some people afraid of China and ...

  • Regno Unito Italia

    From folly to fragmentation

    THE bleeding stopped on the third day: sterling steadied and stockmarkets perked up on June 28th, after two sessions of carnage (see article). By then Britain’s vote on June 23rd to leave the European Union had taken a heavy toll (see chart). The shares of Lloyds and the Royal Bank ...

  • Portogallo

    Portugal é o país da zona euro com mais pagamentos com cartão face ao PIB

    Percentagem ascendeu a 35,5%, bastante acima da média de 13,4% da área do euro

  • USA

    Netanyahu hails partnership with the United States

    Netanyahu thanks the United States for its friendship with Israel but also for “making the world a much better place”.

  • Cina

    From noodles to poodles

    Pots of money no more? SOARING sales of instant noodles have for years been a reliable indicator of the insatiable appetites of China’s rising consumer class. China is the world’s biggest market for these flash-fried snacks infused with monosodium glutamate (MSG), a chemical that makes flavourless food more palatable. Locals slurp ...

  • USA Giappone

    From clout to rout

    IT FEELS indelicate to raise it at a time like this, but European business has a bigger problem on its plate than Britain’s decision to leave the European Union. After a decade of stagnation the continent’s firms have suffered an alarming decline in their global clout. Europe’s slide down the ...

  • USA

    Ticking all the boxes

    Clicking your rights away IF A prize were to be awarded for the world’s clunkiest prose, the paragraphs of indecipherable text that make up “terms of use” agreements would surely win. These legal thickets are designed to protect companies from litigious online shoppers and users of web services. Some firms require ...

  • Brasile USA

    Brazil's economy recovering, says Finance Minister

    Brasília - Henrique MeirellesElza Fiúza/Agência Brasil Brazil's Finance Minister Henrique Meirelles said Brazil's economy is beginning to show good results and reverse the downward trend in confidence indexes. “The curve has already shifted, which shows we are on the right track,” he said at a business award ceremony organized by ...

  • Brasile

    Banco Central vai retomar intervenções no câmbio após dólar chegar a R$ 3,20

    Será a primeira vez, em 40 dias, que o BC voltará a  intervir  no  câmbio    Arquivo/Agência  Brasil No dia em que o dólar chegou a operar abaixo de R$ 3,20, o Banco Central (BC) anunciou a retomada das intervenções no câmbio. Amanhã (1º), a instituição leiloará US$ 500 milhões em ...

  • Venezuela

    CMN determina que grandes bancos elaborem plano de recuperação

    As instituições financeiras de maior porte deverão elaborar planos de recuperação para serem acionados em momentos de crise, determinou hoje (30) o Conselho Monetário Nacional (CMN). O documento terá de ser avaliado pelo Banco Central (BC), que poderá pedir a contratação de uma auditoria independente para dar o aval ao ...