What’s new at Barclays?
Lex's Stuart Kirk and Oliver Ralph discuss the Salz Review, a 230-page report into what went wrong at Barclays before and during the financial...
Singh urges optimism from Indian business
Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh told Indian industry leaders to prove "the prophets of gloom as wrong". At the Confederation of Indian Industry he...
S Korea fights income inequality
South Korea's new president, Park Geun-hye, has promised $125bn of extra social spending over five years, hoping to fulfill campaign pledges to address growing...
Euro over-reaction to Cyprus
The euro, which rode out the eurozone sovereign debt crisis, has suffered at the hands of relatively tiny Cyprus. Steven Saywell, global head of...
Lionel Barber on Thatcher legacy
Baroness Margaret Thatcher, prime minister of the UK for 11 years, has died. Lionel Barber, editor of the Financial Times, talks to Seb Morton-Clark...
Shale — it’s a gas, gas, gas!
The dynamics of the US natural gas market have been radically altered by the shale boom, offering a sizeable boom to US economic competitiveness....
Pressure builds on New York subway system
After 80 years, New York's Second Avenue subway project is finally under way. War, depression and near-municipal bankruptcy have plagued this project from...
Women clearing Laos of cluster-bombs
One bombing mission every 8 minutes, 24 hours a day for 9 years. Unexploded ordnance - dropped over Laos during the Vietnam war -...
Zuckerberg unveils home screen app
Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg launches a "super app" at the group's site in Menlo Park, California, in a push to expand on mobile...
Safe deposits?
The bail-in of bank deposits over €100,000 in Cyprus introduced risk where it was previously perceived not to exist. Lex's Stuart Kirk and Oliver...
