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Jim O'Neill

The City should beware the changing eurozone

For the first time since European monetary union in 1999, France may end up with a Socialist government, following Sunday’s first-round victory for François Hollande.

24 April 2012 11:06 AM

Urgent action needed to take heat off Europe

One of these summers, the financial markets will behave themselves. Since August 2007, when the tremors of the credit crisis first exploded, the markets have seemed to hold the worst of their mood for when many of us are trying to spend time with our families and relax.

05 August 2011 12:33 PM

Our economy is much rosier than it looks

The announcement by the Office for National Statistics that real GDP growth was just 0.2 per cent in the second quarter, following essentially no apparent growth at all in the previous six months, is rather disturbing, at least on the surface. It is particularly so to those of us who generally see the post- global credit-crisis glass as half-full rather than half-empty. Within hours of the announcement, UK markets actually responded with "relief", with a slight sell-off in interest-rate futures and a modest rise in the pound.

28 July 2011 11:33 AM

Brics herald a golden age for London

Frequently, many people in the UK and elsewhere in the West worry about the rise of Brazil, Russia, India and China, the so-called Bric nations that are becoming the key drivers of the world economy and possibly society.

26 April 2011 11:53 AM

Arab uprisings are a 'Berlin Wall moment'

Events continue to unfold across the Middle East and North Africa in a way which is quite staggering for any observer, and the degree of unpredictability about outcomes appears extremely high, even by the tumultuous standards of this part of the world.

01 April 2011 11:02 AM

We need to be part of the great Chinese march

Yesterday's estimate for Japan's GDP growth in the final quarter of 2010, or rather the lack of growth, was not a surprise. More interesting was that it confirmed China's status as the number two global economy.

15 February 2011 10:14 AM

The economy is not as bad as it looks, George

During the first few days of the World Cup, there appeared to be a scarily strong correlation between the performance of teams and their current perception in the markets, especially in Europe. Germany got off to a great start but the troubled Club Med countries — Greece, Portugal and, amazingly, Spain — a poor one. The England team's opening two games were not a great harbinger. Let's hope the correlation is spurious — or that there is about to be a shift in the direction of both.

22 June 2010 12:13 PM