Finance & economics

Italian banking

Simply staggering

The end of the tunnel

Britain's Conservative government wants to sell off the London Underground. Is nothing sacred?

Hong Kong's stock exchange

Market discipline

Latin America

Second wave

Japanese property

Get real

From angst to action?

America's Federal Reserve must decide whether to raise interest rates on March 25th. Alan Greenspan's worries about equity prices have not made that decision any easier

Small-company stockmarkets

Europe's growth industry

Less than two years ago, Europe had no stockmarkets for small, fast-growing companies. Now it has seven. Which, if any, will prosper?

Egypt's economy

Sinkhole no more

Low returns, happy returns

International investment is in fashion. Should governments limit pension funds' holdings of foreign assets?

The Nomura scandal

Familiar sins

Insurance broking

Risk advoidance