Wall Street’s big Yahoo hope
Tech Blog: Carl Icahn may have a better chance of bringing Yahoo and Microsoft together than Steve Ballmer ever had on his own
Principal content
Japan shows surprise growth spurt
China exports and shipments to other emerging economies provide strongest quarter in four years, but analysts warn rising energy and raw material costs will weigh on next two quarters
China quake toll ‘could reach 50,000’
Authorities call on overseas experts for help
Rio Tinto hits back at China in iron ore fight
Steelmakers told to boycott its spot sales
Berlin sees spy threat to business
Intelligence chief hits out at Russia and China
Court case reveals Kwok family dispute
Sun Hung Kai Properties votes on fate of chairman
Shaw moves to shed TVB stake
Buy-out groups after toehold in China
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Steven Sun
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On the ground in Sichuan
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Markets Q&A: Bonds and inflation
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Comment & Analysis
Change is in the air for financial superclass
Elites cede power only reluctantly and there are signs of an effort to stave off the beginning of the end of the golden age, writes David Rothkopf
States must act locally in a globalised world
Jeremy Greenstock on the need to decentralise
Burma’s victims pay bill for foreign policy realism
The junta has bestowed the right, if not the obligation, on the international community to intervene,
writes Philip Stephens
Britain must not cut loose its anchor
Stick to the inflation target, says Martin Wolf
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Eurozone economy
The eurozone: engine of the world economy. It may sound strange but it has more than a grain of truth
Barclays’s silence
In response to a fragile balance sheet – and its global peers scrambling for capital – the UK bank has decided to do, er, nothing
Editorial comment
Time to convene a summit on oil
A summit would not cause instant falls in prices, but an international response will achieve more than countries acting alone
Monster-bankers
Germany keeps trying to slay the dragon of capitalism
