Big Bank Hank

A record £82.5 billion was raised through new and further issues of equity on the London Stock Exchange during the course of 2009, an increase of 16 per cent on the total for 2008, itself a record year. Read More

If there is anything predictable about the policies of a Kirchner presidency, it is their unpredictability (otherwise the recent legal security debate sparked by visiting Washington State Department official Arturo Valenzuela would never have arisen) but there are various indications that the financial sector might well be the first key front for the bicentennial year lying just ahead. Read More

Markets traded quite volatile during the closing hours of the day and in the end, while the indices did close in the positive, they sold off substantially from the day's high. Read More