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Germany?s trade surpluses built on holding down labour costs may be unsustainable for the other countries in the eurozone, France?s finance minister said in an unusually blunt warning to Berlin

Barclays rapidly-drowing investment arm is looking to recreate the partnership models of Goldman Sachs and Lazard

Corporate bond markets had one of their busiest week in six months as companies in southern Europe joined the rush to issue corporate debt although the Greek debt crisis drew higher interest rates.

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao warns other countries that pressuring China over its currency policy was equivalent to protectionism

Chris Dodd, US Senate banking committee chairman, is due to shrug off Republican opposition and introduce a financial regulatory reform bill on Monday designed to bring landmark reforms a step closer

Claims about Ernst & Young?s part in the collapse of Lehman Brothers has brought the auditing profession under uncomfortable scrutiny

Tens of thousands of anti-government protestors have descended on Bangkok for six days of protests designed to force the government to resign and call elections

The Israeli prime minister has expressed regret for the announcement during a visit by the US vice-president of a plan to build Jewish settler homes in mostly Arab East Jerusalem

The rival bidders for General Growth Properties, the bankrupt owner of some of the most high-profile shopping malls in the US, are seeking financial support from sovereign wealth funds in the Middle East and Asia, according to people familiar with the matter

British inventor of bagless vacuum cleaner and bladeless fan is to step down as chairman of the company he founded

Germany?s trade surpluses built on holding down labour costs may be unsustainable for the other countries in the eurozone, France?s finance minister said in an unusually blunt warning to Berlin

Barclays rapidly-drowing investment arm is looking to recreate the partnership models of Goldman Sachs and Lazard

Corporate bond markets had one of their busiest week in six months as companies in southern Europe joined the rush to issue corporate debt although the Greek debt crisis drew higher interest rates.

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao warns other countries that pressuring China over its currency policy was equivalent to protectionism

Chris Dodd, US Senate banking committee chairman, is due to shrug off Republican opposition and introduce a financial regulatory reform bill on Monday designed to bring landmark reforms a step closer

Claims about Ernst & Young?s part in the collapse of Lehman Brothers has brought the auditing profession under uncomfortable scrutiny

Tens of thousands of anti-government protestors have descended on Bangkok for six days of protests designed to force the government to resign and call elections

The Israeli prime minister has expressed regret for the announcement during a visit by the US vice-president of a plan to build Jewish settler homes in mostly Arab East Jerusalem

The rival bidders for General Growth Properties, the bankrupt owner of some of the most high-profile shopping malls in the US, are seeking financial support from sovereign wealth funds in the Middle East and Asia, according to people familiar with the matter

British inventor of bagless vacuum cleaner and bladeless fan is to step down as chairman of the company he founded

Chris Dodd, US Senate banking committee chairman, is due to shrug off Republican opposition and introduce a financial regulatory reform bill on Monday designed to bring landmark reforms a step closer

Germany?s trade surpluses built on holding down labour costs may be unsustainable for the other countries in the eurozone, France?s finance minister said in an unusually blunt warning to Berlin

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao warns other countries that pressuring China over its currency policy was equivalent to protectionism

Military analysts are warning that China?s increased regional power has caused its south-east Asian neighbours to step up their own defence purchases

Eurozone finance ministers hope to reach agreement on how to support Greece if it fails to refinance its debts

Moody?s Investor Service, the credit rating agency, will fire a warning shot at the US, saying that unless the country gets public finances into better shape than the Obama administration projects there would be ?downward pressure? on its triple A credit rating.

The Israeli prime minister has expressed regret for the announcement during a visit by the US vice-president of a plan to build Jewish settler homes in mostly Arab East Jerusalem

Voters on Sunday delivered a rebuke to the government of Nicolas Sarkozy, president, with exit polls showing opposition parties winning an unprecedented share of the vote in the first round of regional elections

US regulators are due to unveil plans aimed at improving the country?s mediocre performance in the global broadband race. But they are already learning the hard way that change will not be easy

There?s a febrile atmosphere round the world trade community. The drumbeat of global trade war is getting louder. In truth, everyone should take a deep breath and calm down, writes Alan Beattie

Corporate bond markets had one of their busiest week in six months as companies in southern Europe joined the rush to issue corporate debt although the Greek debt crisis drew higher interest rates.

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao warns other countries that pressuring China over its currency policy was equivalent to protectionism

February?s public finance figures might allow the chancellor to announce a downward tweak to his previous forecast for the deficit to reach £178bn in 2009-10

Global Markets Overview: Record rise in eurozone industrial production help global stocks build on Wall Street?s overnight advance, but gains tempered by uncertainty

BSkyB gained on market speculation that Rupert Murdoch?s News Corporation, its 39 per cent shareholder, could take the broadcaster private

US stocks were flat in spite of surprisingly strong retail sales data and positive employment figures from Canada

Crude oil prices fell after disappointing US consumer confidence data while sugar prices managed a partial rebound after their pounding this week

The yen was in focus this week due to speculation that the Bank of Japan would take steps next week to ease monetary policy even further

What exactly is happening in the bowels of the American mortgage market? asks Gillian Tett

Volkswagen shares rallied 4.3 per cent to ?74.43 after the German carmaker said it would use a convertible bond issue and a share sale to fund acquisitions

Already beyond abstruse, now in the realm of surreal farce, the debate on healthcare reform is thus becoming yet more inward-looking and unintelligible, writes Clive Crook

Germany?s EMF idea is just a smokescreen. It is not about helping countries in trouble. It is about helping them to get out of the eurozone, writes Wolfgang Münchau

Never again will bankers be able to argue that what is good for Citigroup is good for America, or what is good for RBS is good for the UK. Not with a straight face anyway, writes John Cassidy

Governments have enabled, if not enthusiastically promoted, recklessness, through chronic deficits and lax financial regulation, write George Osborne and Jeffrey Sachs

Use the FT?s screener to search for funds by risk, performance and star rating

Speculation is to financial markets what claptrap is to the political system: absolutely crucial. Populist bombast grabs the attention of the electorate and wins votes, writes Paul Murphy

Video games are increasingly sophisticated and subtle. Designing machines to be pleasurable or useful is one thing ? designing them to be addictive is quite another, writes Christopher Caldwell

From ?Swedish rounding? to charity tins, a nation?s response to the copper-coin problem can tell us something about its character, writes Matthew Engel

Unable to win elections any more, secularists incite the army and the courts. Their parties are not real parties. They are shrinking cults for outsize egos, write David Gardner

The euro is the second most important reserve and investment currency, largely because financial markets trust the ECB. To maintain this, the crisis must be surmounted rapidly, writes Wolfgang Schäuble

Tens of thousands of UK investment bankers could be caught by a new government proposal that banks should disclose pay details for anyone earning more than £500,000 a year

After defaulting on its debts, a repentant Global Investment House tried an unusual tactic in the Middle East ? total transparency about its restructuring process

Commodity related exchange-traded products have emerged as a key battleground for investment banks keen to win a share of the record levels of financial flows that investors are ploughing into commodity market

EFG-Hermes has been one of the few financial sector stars during the global crisis but the Egypt-based finance house has ambitions that go much further

Junichi Ujiie has warned that if London wants to remain a financial centre that banks must not be over regulated and hit by hefty taxes

A management revamp by the Japanese bank has prompted the resignation of Siggi Thorkelsson, head of equities in Asia, amid signs that other departures could soon follow

The group of financiers has contacted the investment bank to see if it would act as corporate adviser in a further signal of its intentions to wrest control of Manchester United football club

Royal Bank of Scotland has awarded £10m in deferred share bonuses to nine of its most senior executives for their performance last year, with the highest pay-out worth £5.9m going to the head of its investment banking division

Some of Europe's biggest banks defended trading activity of credit default swaps on Greek sovereign debt in a meeting with European Union bureaucrats in Brussels

The alliance will strengthen the Russian-owned investment bank's presence in central and eastern Europe with Citadel Investment Services bringing its local expertise to the table

Barclays Capital is to further bolster its ranks in Asia with the hiring of one of the region's leading investment bankers

Prudential's proposed mega-bid for AIG's coveted pan-Asian insurance assets has added to a feeding frenzy among global investment banks and advisory boutiques for a slice of the action

The brokerage's first dollar-denominated offering ? the biggest by a Japanese financial institution in nearly four years ? comes as it seeks to raise its profile as a global bank

Investment banks win senior bookrunner roles in $20bn Hong Kong listing of AIG's Asian life insurance operations