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The Corner has a team of on-the-ground reporters in capital cities ranging from New York to Beijing. Their stories are edited by the teams at the Spanish magazine Consejeros (for members of companies’ boards of directors) and at the stock market news site Consenso Del Mercado (market consensus). They have worked in economics and communication for over 25 years.
Production

World economy 26th December 2013

World industrial production and trade lack of energy

SAO PAULO|By Marcus Nunes| World industrial output and world merchandise trade reached new record monthly highs in October, suggesting that both were solidly above their previous peaks during the early months of the global slowdown in 2008 (by 10.1% and 7.2% respectively), but the real situation is that first indicator has gotten stuck and second registers a much reduced level and growth rate. Therefore, world economy would be still mired in a depressed state.

Arctic

World economy 24th December 2013

Arctic Energy Security: A Tepid Frontier?

With the area opening to greater human activity, the Polar region has once again caught the eye of policy makers (the region was once the site of heightened Cold War activity), who are looking increasingly northward.Will the Arctic be the site of conflict or cooperation?

banking union

Markets 23rd December 2013

Europe missed an opportunity on banking union

ATHENS | By Kostas Karkagiannis at Macropolis | In June 2012, at the height of the debt crisis in the eurozone, its leaders decided to create a banking union. Their aim was, as the conclusions of that summit stated, to: “break the vicious circle between banks and sovereigns.” In this case, the sovereigns were members of the single currency whose economies were suffering.

Kostas Karkagiannis
In June 2012, at the height of the debt crisis in the eurozone, its leaders decided to create a banking union. Their aim was, as the conclusions of that summit stated, to: “break the vicious circle between banks and sovereigns.” In this case, the sovereigns were members of the single currency whose economies were suffering. – See more at: http://www.macropolis.gr/?i=portal.en.the-agora.705&itemId=705#sthash.BG8qRWo5.dpuf
Changes to Family-Planning in China

World economy 23rd December 2013

Experts wonder if changes to family-planning rules in China are too little, too late

BEIJING|Lan Fang and Li Yan at Caixin| Massive population remains China’s basic national condition, but structural problems of the population are daily becoming increasingly important factors affecting the development of the economy and society. The party just eased the one-child policy, but scholars and members of the public say progress should have been made years ago.

Save Preseurop II

In Europe 20th December 2013

‘A window on the lives of Europeans is shut’

MADRID| By  The corner team via Presseurop|In a time when Europe is trying to reinforce its identity it is very difficult to understand that the European Comission has decided to end its financial support to such an intelligent project as Presseurop, the first Pan-european multilingual news and debate site. Its closing down on Friday marks the end of a journalistic experiment with civic dimension, says the European press.

No Picture

Markets 19th December 2013

What do EBA tests reveal, or fail to highlight, about Greek banks?

Macropolis | The European Banking Authority (EBA) disclosed on December 16 the results of a transparency exercise covering 64 European banks from 21 countries. The aim of the exercise was to share updated information based on first half 2013 data about banks’ operations according to uniform benchmarks.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) disclosed on December 16 the results of a transparency exercise covering 64 European banks from 21 countries. The aim of the exercise was to share updated information based on first half 2013 data about banks’ operations according to uniform benchmarks. – See more at: http://www.macropolis.gr/?i=portal.en.economy.699&itemId=699#sthash.rawJn6MF.dpuf