One problem is that investors have piled into familiar carry trades, either directly or via funds.

The truth is that governments and central banks have very few weapons left -- and have probably lost any chance they once had of averting a...

The recovery has been driven by a significant expansion in credit. Post crisis, new lending by Chinese banks has been around 30% or more of...

With the austerity plan to cut deficits and debt and banking union, the OMT has underpinned the relative stability of European financial ma...

The festering european debt crisis, which will resurface later, is a key challenge for German chancellor Angela Merkel’s new government.

There is a growing gap between markets & economic activity, between the 1% who gain in the current scenario & the 99% whose fortunes have d...

In 2012, Germany ran a trade deficit of euro 27 bn with Russia, Libya and Norway, for energy imports, and also with Japan(euro4.7 bn), and ...

European leaders are interpreting stabilisation of economic activity and stable borrowing costs as evidence that the debt crisis is over.

Without improvements in agricultural technology, it will be difficult to feed a population approaching 10 billion.

Bernanke also has to manage constituencies within the Fed and foreign nations concerned about the impact of US policies on their economies.

Currently, all nations want to maximise their share of limited economic growth and shift the burden of financial adjustment onto others.

Greece, Ireland or Portugal may need additional funding to meet maturing debt and also to finance budget deficits as their economies remain...

Economy's faith healers prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, in economic systems of whi...

In Eurozone crisis, debtors have sinned, but creditors are hardly without sin, says Satyajit Das

Many doubts have been raised on whether dollar will continue to be the premier international currency. But the US currency seems to be doin...

The practice of getting collaterals could help banks lower the risk on their derivatives books and prompt RBI to grant capital relief. Inde...

Satyajit Das, author of Traders, Guns and Money, has spent more than 31 years teaching and practising in the exotic financial derivatives i...