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Lessons from Turkey to SA: Economic independence is a battle
Without tighter capital controls, regulating the flow of money in and out of their economies, Turkey and South Africa are vulnerable to the whims of the financial markets
Automaker Tesla to remain a public company, CEO Musk says
Elon Musk says the company would continue to be publicly traded, weeks after suggesting that he would take the pioneering electric carmaker private
Dirty energy financiers shamed
Where is all the money coming from to build dirty coal-powered energy plants?
Record tumble in Japan output signals dismal GDP
Japanese industrial production fell 9,6% in December and core inflation almost evaporated, reinforcing expectations of a record economic contraction.
Job losses prompt action
Policymakers facing mounting job losses prepared new measures to ease the pain on Monday.
Small US banks wary over bailouts
Smaller US banks have objected that they could be vulnerable to government-funded predatory takeovers as their larger rivals enjoy cash injections.
Mitsubishi buys stake in Morgan Stanley
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group has bought a 21% stake in Wall Street bank Morgan Stanley for $9-billion, the companies said on Monday.
Global rout, bank woes shake Wall Street
United States stocks tumbled on Friday, sending the benchmark S&P 500 below 900 for the first time in five years.
Debt rescue efforts spark rally on global markets
A US government promise to rescue Wall Street from its debt crisis and global central bank intervention spurred a mass market rally on Friday.
Wall fall down
Who’s to blame? Indebted Americans? Alan Greenspan? Slack credit rating agencies? Greedy and overpaid chief executives?
US announces plan to ease financial crisis
The US said on Thursday it was putting together a rescue plan to clear away the bad debt that has caused the worst financial crisis in decades.
Morgan Stanley in talks as fear grips financials
Morgan Stanley topped the list of major financial firms scrambling to find a buyer on Thursday amid panicked stock and money markets.
Central banks join forces to add dollar funds
Global central banks clubbed together on Thursday to add extra dollar funds to global money markets in a bid to bring down high market interest rates.
World finance firestorm outpaces firefighters
Morgan Stanley became the next great Wall Street name in peril on Thursday with reports it was in talks to be bought by Wachovia Corporation.