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7:14pm

Research rewrites global trade data

Containers being lifted in a shipyard

US trade imbalance with China shrinks under OECD findings

2:34am

World Bank cautions on economic stimulus

Global growth forecast to be only marginally better than 2012

Adam Posen Japan should rethink stimulus
beyondbrics China FDI - levelling off, at record levels

From COMPANIES 3:33pm

Japan’s airlines ground Dreamliner fleets

Boeing shares drop on fresh safety concerns

EU ECONOMY 6:51pm

Bundesbank weighs bullion against public pressure

German populace worried by potential break-up of euro

Germany to shift 54,000 gold bars home
Mohamed El-Erian Germany’s gold move

Global Market Overview 7:24pm

Stocks struggle for momentum

Nikkei 225 slumps 2.6% after yen strengthens

Management

Ryszard Florek

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Opportunity: Florek began in communist Poland but had to adapt to capitalism

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Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron addresses a news conference after an European Union leaders summit in Brussels

Britain needs a European strategy: it must fall in with Franco-German plans – or drop out

From US ECONOMY 3:20pm

Business demand drives US factories

Industrial output rises 0.3% in December

A stewardess walks inside a high-speed train running from the Beijing to Guangzhou, south China's Guangdong province, at the Beijing west railway station in Beijing on December 26, 2012. China on December 26 started service on the world's longest high-speed rail route, the latest milestone in the country's rapid and sometimes troubled super fast rail network.

©Getty CHINESE ECONOMY 1:55pm

China’s high-speed rail gets back on track

Revival in rail investment boosts economic growth

From COMPANIES 3:06pm

‘Tight oil’ boom to fuel supply, says BP

North America set to dominate unconventional resources for decades

Taqa acts to restore North Sea oil flow

Amplats workers down tools and gather outside the Khomanani shaft in the Rustenburg area

©AFP From COMPANIES 1:15pm

Amplats workers call off strike

Staff in deal to suspend wildcat move

Amplats outlines radical SA overhaul
Beyondrics - Amplats closures the market reaction

From COMPANIES 10:56am

EU car sales suffer worst fall in decades

Manufacturers hit by wounding declines in key European markets

Renault to axe 7,500 French jobs
In depth Detroit auto show 2013

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The yen’s premium as a haven from the global crisis has evaporated

beyondbrics

Pedestrians walk past St. Basil's Cathedral in Red Square in Moscow, Russia, on Monday, June 22, 2009. The ruble fell against the dollar and the central bank's target exchange-rate basket as stocks and oil prices declined.

Global economic trends could help spark a capital surplus in Russia

Lex

Amplats shake-up will be messy but is the only solution left

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©Gianfranco Tripodo Mariano Rajoy, Spain’s prime minister, says reforms will bear fruit

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Japan should rethink its stimulus, writes Adam Posen

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