8:18pm

ISM surveys: is it V for victory?

US Federal Reserve building Agence,France-Presse

Global manufacturing data appears to show a recovery - or is it the start of a W?

3:49am

Silver

Poor man’s gold is no longer so poor, outperforming the yellow metal

6:14pm

Prudential

Group returns to policy of cash cow milking

3:50pm

WestLB

A possible solution for Germany’s state-controlled Landesbank

5:46pm

Carrefour

Store of credibility for the world’s second largest retailer is dwindling

3:44pm

Asian rates

Policymakers are fast running out of excuses for not raising interest rates

Nov 30, 2010

Italy

Country should be bulwark against eurozone contagion, not victim of it

Nov 30, 2010

US deficit commission

Washington needs its own fiscal crisis to accept such radical ideas

Nov 30, 2010

Mexico

Country celebrates 10 years of uninstitutionalised revolution

Jean-Claude Trichet gestures Agence,France-Presse 4:55pm

Eurozone central bank chiefs

The sovereign debt crisis has given central bankers a new lease on life

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