• USA

    When barometers go wrong

    AMERICA’s labour market has become a reliable source of comfort when other economic indicators dismay. When growth slowed to just 0.8% in the first quarter of the year, economists were mostly unperturbed, because payrolls were growing by over 150,000 workers a month. Wage growth was picking up. Even labour-force participation ...

  • Portogallo

    Of snowballs and red ink

    It was the trades that went off the rails IT HAS been called “the worst trade ever”. Shortly before the financial meltdown of 2008, Metro do Porto and three other Portuguese public-transport companies entered into a series of interest-rate swaps with Santander, a Spanish bank, in hopes of reducing interest payments ...

  • Corea del Sud

    The germ of an idea

    No more soft-soaping “HARMLESS to humans”, assured the slogan on humidifier disinfectants sold to South Koreans in the early 2000s by Oxy, a local unit of Reckitt Benckiser, an Anglo-Dutch consumer-goods company. A widening criminal investigation by South Korea’s government into dozens of cases of lung disease, some of them fatal, ...

  • USA

    Trust me

    JUNE is usually a cheerful month for admen: they are scheduled to celebrate their feats at the humbly titled Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, which starts on June 18th. Yet the get-together this year may be abuzz with darker talk. On June 7th America’s Association of National Advertisers (ANA), ...

  • Cina Regno Unito

    Bloated but still bingeing

    Aiming high GUO GUANGCHANG made headlines around the world in December when the billionaire industrialist suddenly disappeared, supposedly to co-operate “voluntarily” with Chinese anti-corruption investigators at a secret location. Shares in his company, Fosun, China’s biggest private-sector conglomerate, tumbled. Potential takeovers abroad began to unravel. He was released without accusation of ...

  • USA

    Their eyes on Albion

    YOU do not have to be British to take a view on Britain’s place in Europe. Almost every global economic institution has predicted damage if Britain leaves the European Union. Barack Obama pooh-poohed Brexiteers’ hopes of striking a quick bilateral trade deal with America, deflating those who claim exporters would ...

  • Argentina

    Escándalo de Mossack Fonseca no reduce viajes a Panamá

    En los últimos tres meses dos grandes aerolíneas como Lufthansa y Turkish Airlines han iniciado servicios al país.

  • Colombia

    Disputa pende de Colombia

  • Brasile

    Taxas de juros para crédito crescem pela quinta vez no ano

    Em maio, juros do comércio, do cartão de crédito rotativo e do cheque especial foram aumentadosMarcello Casal Jr./Agência Brasil As taxas de juros das operações de crédito cresceram novamente em maio, sendo a quinta elevação do ano e a vigésima consecutiva, de acordo com a Associação Nacional de Executivos de ...

  • Brasile

    Brazil interest rate maintained at 14.25% p.a.

    The Monetary Policy Committee (COPOM) of Brazil's Central Bank decided to maintain Brazil's key interest rate, the SELIC, at its current 14.25% per annum, for the seventh consecutive time. The SELIC rate has been at this level since the end of July. The decision, made by unanimous vote during the ...