Economy

Bank stands pat on rates

Surprising virtually no one, the Bank of Canada will maintain its target overnight rate at 1%. The corresponding bank rate will remain at 1.25% and the deposit rate will still be 0.75%.

March 8, 2012

2 min read

Emerging markets have room to grow

Global markets were fairly quiet this week, with emerging-market asset prices remaining basically unchanged despite the high volatility observed in oil prices, according to a recent research by Barclays Capital.

March 2, 2012

3 min read

Eurozone must strengthen defenses: G20

The co-ordination of global economic policy isn’t often the strong suit of G20 meetings, but finance ministers readily agreed upon one point this weekend: the rest of the world will not help the eurozone until it help itself.

March 1, 2012

1 min read

Faceoff: Keynes versus Hayek

Can governments fix a financial slump? Or does that drive nations deeper into debt?

By Kanupriya Vashisht |March 1, 2012

4 min read