Global business barometer
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Businesspeople are a bit less gloomy(24)
Businesspeople are a bit less gloomy(24)
Burgernomics shows Switzerland has the most overvalued currency(92)
The bursting of the global housing bubble is only halfway through(40)
Politics has tied budget-making in knots(11)
Luxury cars are speeding ahead; lesser brands are stalled(90)
A change that may be more radical than it seems at first(16)
The central-bank governor sends a message to the chancellor(6)
In a guest article, Mario Blejer (pictured left) and Guillermo Ortiz, former central-bank governors of Argentina and Mexico respectively, explain why Greece should not leave the euro(17)
Our correspondents discuss the relative buoyancy in the markets, Greece’s second bail-out and the latest UK house-price figures
Browse the latest data with these financial and economic tables:
Output, prices and jobs
The Economist commodity-price index
- Weights
Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
Markets
Foreign reserves
Retail sales, producer prices, wages and exchange rates
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