http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/special_reports/global_economy/#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa The latest stories from the Global economy section of the BBC News web site. en-gb Sun, 21 Apr 2013 23:09:05 GMT Copyright: (C) British Broadcasting Corporation, see http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/help/rss/4498287.stm for terms and conditions of reuse. http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/nol/shared/img/bbc_news_120x60.gif http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/special_reports/global_economy/#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa 120 60 15 The phrase is now part of the American lexicon, to describe a so-called economic catastrophe looming when tax cuts expire and spending cuts kick in. But where did the term come from and is it a good metaphor? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20318326#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-20318326 Thu, 15 Nov 2012 03:39:44 GMT A guide to the current global financial scandals and which banks have been implicated around the world. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-19323954#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-19323954 Thu, 20 Dec 2012 18:33:02 GMT A timeline of the Libor-fixing scandal. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-18671255#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-18671255 Wed, 06 Feb 2013 11:51:37 GMT What is the benchmark Libor inter-bank rate and what did Barclays bank and others do to rig it? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-19199683#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-19199683 Tue, 18 Dec 2012 09:21:26 GMT In his latest series on BBC Radio 4, Michael Robinson discovers how British banking lost its way and finds reasons to hope it might eventually improve. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-19330495#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-19330495 Tue, 21 Aug 2012 22:24:24 GMT A Greek exit from the euro has become a bomb fizzling at the heart of the eurozone. What could happen if it explodes? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-18074674#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-18074674 Mon, 18 Jun 2012 14:18:53 GMT Where next for Greece and the eurozone? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-13798000#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-13798000 Tue, 27 Nov 2012 12:16:57 GMT Graphics comparing the debt levels in the eurozone countries and the UK since 1999. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-13361930#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-13361930 Thu, 25 Apr 2013 13:17:10 GMT As eurozone governments hammer out new rules to limit their borrowing, are they missing the point of the crisis? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-16290598#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-16290598 Tue, 19 Jun 2012 13:10:57 GMT Greece provides a lesson in how raising taxes and cutting spending can be a painfully uphill, and even self-defeating, task. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-15490336#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-15490336 Fri, 28 Oct 2011 14:25:41 GMT Central banks, including the Bank of England / the US Federal Reserve, are using "quantitative easing" to bolster their economies, but what is it? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-15492115#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-15492115 Fri, 28 Oct 2011 14:27:02 GMT How can countries or governments go bust? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/15538164#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/15538164 Tue, 01 Nov 2011 16:24:18 GMT When a government or a big company wants to borrow money, it issues what is known as a "bond" - but what exactly is it? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-15491690#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-15491690 Fri, 28 Oct 2011 14:32:49 GMT When banks get into trouble, their central bank steps in to save them, as the European Central Bank has doing lately. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-15411384#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-15411384 Fri, 21 Oct 2011 21:02:13 GMT Robert Peston, the BBC's Business Editor, explains what the European Financial Stability Facility is. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/15599258#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/15599258 Fri, 04 Nov 2011 16:39:48 GMT The International Monetary Fund touches a raw nerve in many developing countries, and is now doing the same in some European ones. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-15492118#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-15492118 Fri, 28 Oct 2011 14:28:38 GMT We've all become acutely aware in recent years how easily a big bank can reach the point of collapse. But why does it happen? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-15411383#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-15411383 Fri, 21 Oct 2011 21:00:38 GMT Three years after the global financial crisis, people in Europe and the US may be forgiven for asking: "Where's my recovery?" http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/15492121#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/15492121 Fri, 28 Oct 2011 14:33:47 GMT From the euro's creation to Greek woes http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-13856580#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-13856580 Wed, 13 Jun 2012 14:08:35 GMT Compare the deficit in the eurozone countries http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-13366011#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-13366011 Thu, 25 Apr 2013 13:18:45 GMT Where are you on the global pay scale? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17543356#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17543356 Thu, 29 Mar 2012 16:58:30 GMT Watch: How the US went from boom to bust http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-14678859#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-14678859 Tue, 30 Aug 2011 23:02:55 GMT The World Bank is predicating a "difficult" year ahead for the developed economies, despite an improvement in the financial markets. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-21042205#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-21042205 Wed, 16 Jan 2013 11:27:51 GMT How will China drive global growth in 2013, and what kind of economic recovery can the world expect? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-21021565#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-21021565 Tue, 15 Jan 2013 06:19:40 GMT Global stock markets have rallied after a short-term deal to stave off the US "fiscal cliff" was reached. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-20888478#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-20888478 Wed, 02 Jan 2013 22:33:25 GMT Swiss banking giant UBS has agreed to pay $1.5bn (£940m) to US, UK and Swiss regulators for attempting to manipulate the Libor inter-bank lending rate. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-20784771#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-20784771 Wed, 19 Dec 2012 22:29:35 GMT 5 live asked the head of credit at Legal and General if Tim Geithner's visit to Germany could be seen as significant. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-19047471#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-19047471 Mon, 30 Jul 2012 09:57:28 GMT Japanese industrial production slipped 0.1% in June, from the previous month, amid fears that economic weakness in Europe is threatening recovery. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/19043379#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/19043379 Mon, 30 Jul 2012 04:06:29 GMT The first estimate for US GDP is likely to show a slowdown in the world's largest economy. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-19011847#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-19011847 Fri, 27 Jul 2012 09:37:22 GMT Pressure is growing on the president of Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan, to take decisive action following an investigation into high level corruption in the fuel sector. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-18245866#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-18245866 Tue, 29 May 2012 05:43:13 GMT How China is changing our lives http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-19797989#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-19797989 Mon, 15 Oct 2012 01:38:35 GMT Big thinkers stumped how to save the global economy http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-22223249#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-22223249 Sun, 21 Apr 2013 23:05:41 GMT Are we heading for another food price crisis? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-19715504#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-19715504 Mon, 15 Oct 2012 23:05:57 GMT Will China fall flat on its face just like Japan? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-19948730#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-19948730 Wed, 31 Oct 2012 00:11:32 GMT Should state subsidies be used to help S Africa's young find work? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-20125053#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-20125053 Thu, 01 Nov 2012 00:03:42 GMT Who will drive the much-needed economic recovery? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-18815595#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-18815595 Thu, 16 Aug 2012 09:53:16 GMT Deficit issue looms large in US election race http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-19815320#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-19815320 Wed, 03 Oct 2012 14:28:54 GMT The world did not begin in 1929 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-19266802#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-19266802 Wed, 15 Aug 2012 23:27:42 GMT What we can learn from Germany's economic strength http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-18868704#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-18868704 Wed, 15 Aug 2012 23:26:38 GMT