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Politicians starting to get their acts together

nebusiness.co.uk — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMT

BEING of Italian heritage can sometimes be difficult. I am not just referring during the Six Nations rugby tournament, or the numerous football scandals, but specifically with regards to politics.

Why sovereign debt hits us all

nebusiness.co.uk — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 00:01:00 GMT

JAMES Carville, the American political consultant and pundit, famously joked at the beginning of the Clinton adminis tration in the early 1990s: “I used to think if there was reincarnation, I wanted to come back as the president or the Pope or a .400 baseball hitter. But now I want to come back as the bond market. You can intimidate everybody”.

Good time for equity bargain hunters

nebusiness.co.uk — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 23:02:00 GMT

AS EXPECTED, it has not been a quiet year for global markets. Investors have had to digest a wave of destabilising news, including spiking oil prices, Japan’s earthquake, tensions in the Middle East and a government debt impasse across the Western developed world, with Greece at the centre of current tensions.

Troubled oil producers give markets the jitters

nebusiness.co.uk — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 00:01:00 GMT

ECCENTRIC 20th Century US senator Everett Dirksen once quipped that “the oil can is mightier than the sword”. Looking at the events over the last month or so, this still rings true today.