10:56am

Rajoy warns Spain faces debt market exile

Prime minister points to ‘serious risk’ of borrowing freeze

8:56pm

US retail credit defaults drop to 2008 levels

Delinquency rates ease as lenders tighten standards

8:05pm

JPMorgan loss exposes derivatives dangers

Fears new rules could raise financing costs

6:54pm

Greek exit fears put havens at premium

Investors are being increasingly forced into ‘pain trade’

5:51pm

Greece to repay €450m bond in full

Official warns decision does not create a precedent

5:42pm

Investors eye further ECB intervention

BoAML report finds many fund managers expect QE

From COMMODITIES 3:17pm

Japanese pension fund switches to gold

Small company fund looks to diversify portfolio

From COMPANIES 2:44pm

Facebook boosts IPO by 25%

Social network to float more shares than originally planned

From WORLD 1:43pm

UAE’s first sukuk restructuring forecast

Yield on Dana Gas’s $920m Islamic bond soars

From WORLD 1:22pm

Iraqi bourse reflects recovery struggle

Stock exchange battles for post-conflict growth

From WORLD 11:14am

BoJ misses bond buying target

Central bank pumping more cash than markets can absorb

From LEX 6:19pm

Bank capital rules: one step at a time

Compromise giving national governments reasonable flexibility amounts to progress, but at a price

Markets Insight May 15, 2012

ECB’s dilemma on the euro rescue

Lack of good collateral is the biggest hindrance

May 14, 2012

Faith fades in eurozone firewall

Greece and Spain hit markets and Italian banks downgraded

May 14, 2012

Greek fire could singe rest of euro

Unanswerable question is how far contagion would spread

Markets Insight May 14, 2012

A whale in the waters of negative yields

Bill Gross points to changes to global monetary system on the horizon

May 14, 2012

Spanish borrowing spreads at euro-era high

Reaction to banking sector reforms remains strained

May 13, 2012

Global bank bond issuance falls

Decline highlights impact of eurozone crisis

From COMPANIES May 11, 2012

JPMorgan’s ‘whale’ causes a splash

Hedge fund managers dubbed bank’s London-based trader ‘Voldemort’

From COMPANIES May 11, 2012

How JPMorgan shock hit the war on Volcker

Bank’s $2bn loss plays to advocates of risk control

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