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Taking Stock

The Globe's Brian Milner looks at events that shape the markets

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A woman walks during a protest during a May Day rally in the centre of Barcelona, May 1, 2012. Tens of thousands of workers marked May Day in European cities Tuesday with a mix of anger and gloom over austerity measures imposed by leaders trying to contain the euro zone's intractable debt crisis.
Taking stock

Is the ‘biggest bull market in history’ ahead?

Best-selling author and investment expert sees feels latter part of this decade and beyond will be a ‘really great’ growth period May 07, 2012 11:13AM EDT

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British Prime Minister David Cameron
Taking Stock

Putting too much faith in numbers

Seemingly definitive data can amount to a lot less than meets the eye in the cloudy world of finance and economics Apr 30, 2012 1:17PM EDT

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An employment office in Madrid, April 3, 2012. Spain's number of registered jobless rose for the eighth-straight month in March as companies in all areas of the economy continued to lay off staff.
TAKING STOCK

Euro zone bears are roaring louder

Still, optimists say that as long as Germany is in the driver’s seat, common currency has a future Apr 22, 2012 7:51PM EDT

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TAKING STOCK

Beware the market bears emerging from their lairs

Volatile markets, investors fleeing global equity funds harbinger of economic gloom Apr 16, 2012 7:08AM EDT

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Migrant workers eat their lunch outside a construction site in central Beijing, April 2, 2012. As the number of adults flowing into the workforce slows, China can no longer attract manufacturing with the promise that an unending pool of rural migrants will keep its wages down.
Taking Stock

It's time to look beyond overhyped BRICs

Morgan Stanley’s Ruchir Sharma derides the popular investing idea that the biggest emerging markets are the place to be Apr 09, 2012 6:52AM EDT

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No wonder U.S. President Barack Obama has decided it’s safe at last to make the economy a focal point of his re-election campaign.
Taking Stock

U.S. presidency hinges on the economy

Job growth cannot continue to outpace GDP growth indefinitely, says Noam Scheiber Apr 02, 2012 6:33AM EDT

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Book Excerpt

'How Obama's team fumbled the recovery'

Read an excerpt from The Escape Artists: How Obama’s Team Fumbled the Recovery, by Noam Scheiber Mar 30, 2012 4:52PM EDT

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Truck driver Don Pamateer fills his truck with diesel fuel at a Pilot Travel Center in Princeton, Illinois, March 5, 2012. Economist Philip Verleger Jr. expects the U.S. to be able to meet all of its own energy needs by 2023.

‘Saudi America’ heads for energy independence

Shale gas development, rise in unconventional energy sources make U.S. fuel self-sufficiency possible by 2023 Mar 21, 2012 2:24PM EDT

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The key problem of too much debt across the developed world has not been addressed, says Satyajit Das, and we are still on the early part of a long, painful road to recovery.
Taking stock

Lack of monetary rigour fuels permabear’s gloomy outlook

Satyajit Das believes ‘trial-and-error’ policy making is creating further economic distortions and making full recovery harder Mar 05, 2012 6:44AM EST

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‘The velocity of money is just collapsing everywhere in the developed world,’ says Richard Cookson, Citi Private Bank’s global chief investment officer Chris Young For The Globe and Mail
Taking Stock

Despite market rally, watch for slowdown in growth and profits

As happened in Japan, the private sector isn’t buying and the public sector is cutting spending Mar 27, 2012 1:35PM EDT

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