China Money Rate Tumbles Most Since 2011 as PBOC Injects Cash
Bloomberg | 24 December 2013
China’s benchmark money-market rate tumbled the most since February 2011 after the central bank injected funds…

Fed Proposes Rule to Scale Back Emergency Lending Powers
Reuters | 23 December 2013
The U.S. Federal Reserve Board of Governors unveiled a proposal on Monday that would limit the scope of its authority to bail out a large financial company…

Pension Funds Seek Costs of Climate Regulations
Press of Atlantic City | 25 October 2013
Some of the largest pension funds in the U.S. and the world are worried that major fossil fuel companies may not be as profitable in the future because of regulations intended to limit climate change…

Dec 23, 2013
Financial Perspectives | 23 December 2013
According to the Stock Trader’s Almanac, the two first years of the Presidential four-year cycle are usually the worst with the last two usually the best…

Margin Debt: Yet Another New All-Time High
Greedometer | 20 December 2013
In yet another sign the stock market is wildly over-priced, NYSE margin debt (borrowing money “on margin” to make leveraged bets)…

Equity Crowdfunding Takes Shape in Canada
Crowdsourcing.org | 20 December 2013
The emerging prospect of equity crowdfunding, something early-stage companies have long gunned for as a cheaper alternative to IPOs…

Irish Banking World Rocked as Three Financiers in Court
Independent.ie | 9 December 2013
A former chief executive of Irish Life & Permanent (IL&P) and two other former bankers will stand trial on charges of conspiring to mislead Anglo Irish Bank investors in the run-up to the banking crisis of September 2008…

Lessons From Bali For WTO And Transatlantic Trade Negotiators
Forbes | 18 December 2013
The future of multilateral trade has presented some vexing questions for policy watchers over the past few years…