Departing ECB president justifies more stimulus and says hawks have lost the political argument

Officials in Moscow will be hard pressed to halt a collapse in the rouble. Here’s why.

The London Interbank Offered Rate (Libor) became a cornerstone of the global financial system’s lending markets. As its death nears, it’s becoming increasingly apparent smaller businesses will bear...

A post celebrating some of Kaminska’s greatest hits.

Economists fear further spiralling increases as 13-year high of 3.4% reached in September

Other Latin American nations will be invited to join plan which could create world’s second-largest currency union

The three Ts solution: triage, time and trillions

Pascal Saint-Amans says last year’s accord on taxing multinationals unlikely to enter rule books soon

$24.4bn, layin’ right there in the street

Aggressive rate rises and European energy supply worries are leading to sharp downgrades

At least not yet.

They help. But there’s some big drawbacks here too such as the risk of the PBoC repo-ing its entire Treasury portfolio for cash.

Monetary Policy Summary and minutes of the Monetary Policy Committee meeting.

Maritime workers have kept the global economy afloat — often at the expense of their own welfare

The IMF says the world is in a liquidity trap. Lagarde says central banks can’t go bankrupt. The solution seems obvious…

Policymakers debate regime shift in global economic conditions in which little is certain

Why NFTs may soon have to compete with cash flow-generating content hosted on more conventional platforms.

On the ethical dilemmas, including prioritisation of care in life-threatening situations, that medical staff grappling with coronavirus have to face 

This week’s price gyrations show that the degree to which assets can be traded matters hugely

Homebaked, a Liverpool social enterprise, thought it could emerge from the pandemic stronger. Weeks into its re-opening, has it?

The past does not provide us with all the answers, but it offers some guidance

As we lament shipping delays and semiconductor scarcity, the mad dash for consumer durables is sometimes forgotten

The halvening, but probably ultimately even better for bitcoin.

Central bank’s own actions may have set in motion chain of events that led to governments’ decisions to levy their lenders

Fitch points out an intriguing development in the market.

Several alternatives are vying to replace the doomed benchmark. And it’s complicating the transition.

Vimes ‘boots’ revisited

POTUS’s trade war underlines decades-old truth: We can’t rely as much on the dollar. Or central banks. 

Price pressures might have reached their peak, but the descent is unlikely to be as swift as the surge

Brussels will have to fight its own instincts on exporting regulation and raising cash

Another wave of global rate rises beckons following the US central bank’s latest mega move