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Top 10 articles on Risk.net in 2010
A quick overview of the top ten articles across the whole of Risk.net in 2010 provides a roadmap of the year's main themes
Financial practitioners need a fresh set of economic theories and terms of reference to fit our new, post-crisis world in which the balance of power has tilted to the East.
The creator of the Naked Capitalism blog and author of one of the definitive accounts of the global financial crisis argues that the US remains chained to outdated economic ideas and that its banks should...
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Gap between emerging and developed economies growing, says Credit Institute...
Investors remain under-allocated to emerging market debt, despite emerging countries growing more rapidly – and, in many cases, boasting healthier balance sheets – than developed economies, panellists say.
Equities may have reached nadir - BlackRock's Doll
Commodity price increases may indicate improved economic prospects
Cesr reveals European financial markets risks, including double-dip...
The Committee of European Securities Regulators (Cesr) has made public for the first time its analysis of trends, risks and vulnerabilities in financial markets
China disputes IEA energy data
The International Energy Agency’s claim that China has overtaken the US as the largest energy user, has exacerbated concerns that supply and demand data could be out of sync with price forecasts
The double-dip danger for credit
In 1980, Federal Reserve chairman Paul Volcker raised US interest rates to almost 20% to fight hyperinflation. The result was a second dip into recession, causing unemployment to hit its highest levels since the Great Depression. Thirty years later, rates...
Major economies must heed Greece lesson, says Reinhart
Major economies need to “come to terms with their debt” if they are to avoid the problems afflicting Greece, a leading economist has warned. As fears grow over the risk of a sovereign default in the Eurozone, Carmen Reinhart, director of the Center...
Pimco chief executive warns against protectionism
Mohamed El-Erian, chief executive officer of bond investor Pimco, has warned investors to hedge against a worldwide escalation in protectionism. Speaking at a press conference on March 2, El-Erian, who along with Bill Gross is Pimco’s co-chief investment...
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