Business and Finance

This area provides up-to-date and interesting developments from the world of business, economics and finance.

A wealth of information is available on topics ranging from stock markets, consumer climate, labor market policies, bond markets, foreign trade and interest rate trends to stock exchange news and economic forecasts.

How risky are first-time buyers?

Working with the University of Copenhagen’s Dr Søren Leth-Petersen, Dr Ejarque from Essex’s Department of Economics looked at a Danish household panel dataset…

KfW IPEX-Bank doing well in its first year of independence

In 2008, its first year of legal independence, KfW IPEX-Bank GmbH achieved strong growth in its volume of new business, which totalled EUR 12.1 billion as at…

Credit crunch hits cash-strapped home-owners

Mortgage equity withdrawal is a much more popular and frequent event than previously thought. New figures show that borrowers haven’t just used their housing…

The Crash of 2008: A Mathematician’s View

There is no such thing as laying off risk if no one is able to insure it. Big new risks were taken in extending mortgages to far more people than could handle…

Unrest can be valuable in takeovers

Takeovers and acquisitions have become increasingly common in recent decades. Companies grow and expand by buying up other companies, and there has been a…

Snapshot of Recession: Job Loss Figures Tell the Story

Morici predicts the trend to continue with this Friday’s release of November employment figures, forecasting the loss of nearly 300,000 more jobs.Based on U.S….

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