
Will Germany flout Europe's bail-in rules if Deutsche Bank needs rescuing?
Oct 26, 2016 09:30 am UTC| Insights & Views Business Economy
Will Deutsche Bank need rescuing? Its a question that is being asked as a big beast of global banking gears up to announce its third quarter results on October 27. With losses expected to be north of 600m (534m), the...
Press regulation in Britain: a step forward – and a step back
Oct 26, 2016 09:22 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics Law
Anyone reading recent editorials in the British press will know that the industry is worried. Following the discovery in 2011 that journalists on a number of newspapers had been hacking peoples phones to get stories, the...
Oct 26, 2016 09:22 am UTC| Central Banks Insights & Views
The sterling came under notable pressure yesterday ahead of the hearing of Bank of England governor Mark Carney in front of the House of Lords committee. While the long-term sterling bonds suggest investors are quickly...

Why British aid for trade deals after Brexit will not be so simple
Oct 25, 2016 19:02 pm UTC| Insights & Views Politics
For Priti Patel, aid money is clearly a tool that can be used to win favours in the new post-Brexit landscape. Speaking to the BBC on a trip to Kenya in her first visit to Africa as secretary of state for international...

New estimate suggests a quarter of the world's population has latent tuberculosis
Oct 25, 2016 18:59 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health
In rich countries, tuberculosis is sometimes thought of as a thing of the past, the disease that claimed Keats, Poe, Chopin. But globally, TB is today the number one infectious killer, causing an estimated 1.8m deaths in...

Is this the end of slum upgrading in Brazil?
Oct 25, 2016 18:42 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life
In Brazils ongoing economic and political drama, one of the latest developments is a congressional proposal to freeze federal funds at 2016 levels, adjusting the 2017 national budget only for inflation. This move would...
How is the American President elected?
Oct 25, 2016 18:37 pm UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Just how democratic is the election for an American president? You might think that the person who receives the most votes wins, right? Wrong. Just ask Al Gore, who in 2000 won more than half-a-million votes more...