A LESSON FROM HURRICANE IRMA CAPITALISM CANT SAVE THE PLANET IT CAN ONLY DESTROY IT

The environmental crisis demands a new ethics, politics and economics... READ MORE›

VENEZUELANS GIVE UP ON COUNTING PILES OF CASH AND START WEIGHING THEM

For a QuickTake explainer on Venezuela's economy, click here Until now, as the bolivar sank, the government declined to print bigger-denomination bills... READ MORE›

BUY GOLD NO MATTER WHO WINS THE ELECTION HSBC SAYS

Even the relatively more internationalist Democratic candidate has argued for the renegotiation of longstanding free-trade agreements... READ MORE›

LIBYA ON BRINK OF ECONOMIC COLLAPSE

Libya's daily oil production before the 2011 uprising stood at 1.6 million barrels... READ MORE›

BONDS PLUNGE BY $1 TRILLION THIS WEEK AS TRUMP SEEN GAME CHANGER

Yields on U.S. 30-year bonds, which are more sensitive than shorter maturities to the outlook for inflation, jumped the most this week since January 2009... READ MORE›

FED RATE-HIKE ODDS APPROACH 100 IN ANTICIPATION OF TRUMPENOMICS

Trump's spending plans are driving speculation the Fed will pick up its pace of rate increases as inflation expectations climb... READ MORE›

BONDS RISE WITH GOLD, YEN AS WEAK CHINA DATA STOKE HAVEN DEMAND

Currencies Japan's currency rose 0.5 percent against the dollar, as the euro briefly fell below 1.10 for the first time since July... READ MORE›

GOLD CAUGHT IN CROSSFIRE AS TRUMP ANGST RUNS INTO RATE CONCERNS

In Singapore, paring the week's advance to 1.7 percent, according to Bloomberg generic pricing... READ MORE›

BOJ OVERHAULS POLICY FOCUS, SETS TARGET FOR GOVERNMENT BOND YIELDS

Central banks have already been taking steps to directly influence long-term rates via bond purchases ... READ MORE›

EURO 'HOUSE OF CARDS' WILL COLLAPSE, MONETARY UNION ARCHITECT WARNS

One day, the house of cards will collapse, Issing said in an interview with the journal Central Banking... READ MORE›

FED MINUTES POINT TO RATE HIKE 'RELATIVELY SOON'

Kansas City Fed President Esther George, Cleveland's Loretta Mester and Eric Rosengren of Boston dissented at the meeting in favor of higher rates... READ MORE›

BONDS SLIDE WITH STOCKS AS INFLATION, POOR EARNINGS FUEL ANXIETY

Brent for December settlement dropped 1.4 percent to 52.41 a barrel on the London-based ICE Futures Europe exchange... READ MORE›

BANK OF CANADA CUTS ECONOMIC OUTLOOK ON SLOWER HOUSING MARKET, SOFTER EXPORTS

The central bank trimmed its outlook for growth this year to 1.1 per cent, from the 1.3 per cent it had forecast in July... READ MORE›

BONDS FALL DOLLAR RISES AS TRADERS MULL WANING STIMULUS OIL UP

Elsewhere in the world, Norway's krone rose as the nation's central bank kept interest rates unchanged after scrapping plans for more stimulus... READ MORE›

CHINA BUSTS UNDERGROUND BANKS INVOLVING MORE THAN $148 BILLION

The yuan has depreciated 7.8 percent against the U.S. dollar since the central bank devalued the currency in August last year... READ MORE›

BANK OF CANADA HOLDS INTEREST RATE STEADY BUT SEES 'SUBSTANTIAL REBOUND' FOR REST OF 2016

Bank of Canada holds interest rate steady but sees 'substantial rebound' for rest of 2016... READ MORE›

BEFORE MASSIVE BANGLADESH HEIST, NEW YORK FED FEARED SUCH CYBER ATTACKS

Security is handled by the New York Fed's Central Bank and International Account Services CBIAS division, a closely-guarded operation inside its fortress in lower Manhattan... READ MORE›

CHINA LIKELY TO DRAG THE WORLD INTO GLOBAL RECESSION, CITIGROUP SAYS

China likely to drag the world into global recession citigroup says... READ MORE›

CENTRAL BANKS WORRY ABOUT ENGAGING WORLD MARKETS AFTER BREXIT

As global markets reel after an establishment-rattling vote by Britain to sever ties with Europe, investors are again expecting central banks to ride to the rescue... READ MORE›

STOCKS RISE WITH DEBT AS SHIFT IN FED SPECULATION WEAKENS DOLLAR

Banks in the Stoxx Europe 600 Index rallied ahead of the European Central Bank's meeting on Thursday, with the regional benchmark adding 1.5 percent... READ MORE›

JANET YELLEN CONDUCTS A GIANT EXPERIMENT AS FED DECIDES WHETHER TO RAISE RATES

The strange new world of the federal reserve is not your daddy's central banking system... READ MORE›

BANK OF ENGLAND STICKS WITH RATE CUT SIGNAL DESPITE BREXIT BOUNCE

The central bank said the economy was still on course to slow sharply... READ MORE›

STOCKS DECLINE ON EARNINGS AS DRAGHI'S REMARKS SPUR EURO SLIDE

The euro fell after Mario Draghi said the region's central bank hasn't discussed extending or tapering stimulus... READ MORE›

EDITORIAL WHAT TWO YEARS OF NEGATIVE INTEREST RATES IN EUROPE TELL US

In June 2014 it became the world's first major central bank to adopt so-called negative interest rates... READ MORE›

WOUNDED GOLD BULL MARKET STEADIES AFTER WORST SLUMP IN 3 YEARS

Prices are down 7.9 percent since a July peak as expectations for tighter monetary policy in Europe and the U.S. dent the appeal of the metal... READ MORE›

BANK OF CANADA HOLDS INTEREST RATE STEADY AT 0.5%

Vote to leave the European Union, the central bank says it, too, has the potential to hurt the Canadian economy... READ MORE›

BOND WORLD BLOODIED BY BIGGEST LOSSES SINCE 2013 IN GLOBAL ROUT

Contributing to the repricing that's swept fixed-income markets is mounting evidence that central banks' historic stimulus efforts are finally paying off... READ MORE›

LAWMAKERS WHO OWNED BANK STOCK WERE MORE LIKELY TO VOTE FOR WALL STREET BAILOUT

Amid the 2008 financial crisis, congressional lawmakers passed a bill providing 700 billion of direct support to major banks... READ MORE›

SLOWING GROWTH IN CHINA RAISES RED FLAG FOR GLOBAL ECONOMY

One economic forecaster immediately cut its global growth forecasts for 2016 in response to the official figures from China while stock markets and oil prices slid backwards... READ MORE›

Bad loans are on the rise and banks expect more to go sour as the economy slows... READ MORE›