MONTHLY COMMENTARY JOHN O’DONOGHUE Consultant Adviser Caratfin Insurance Advisers So, it is alleged that Bernard Madoff, past chairman of the NASDAQ stock exchange and investment master of Madoff Investment Securities, was in
. Hoteliers rightly want the government to abandon plans to build a luxury hotel and conference centre in Nicosia, arguing that low occupancy rates in the capital will drive the project to
By Laurence Fletcher Hedge funds are set to return to their roots as niche products for the happy few as they have been unable to deliver the gleaming returns they were promising
By Jim Loney Bernard Madoff's alleged $50 billion Wall Street fraud scheme has hurt and embarrassed the Jewish community of Palm Beach, the Florida town of the mega-wealthy where the financier found
By Rujun Shen and Eadie Chen China's dramatic economic slowdown is paying an environmental dividend, slashing emissions levels from the world's biggest greenhouse gas emitter as its highest-carbon industries begin to contract.
By Parisa Hafezi Habib Mostofi is one of thousands of Iranians who believed buying property in Dubai would be safer than Iran, isolated by the West over its disputed nuclear plans. But
By Denis Dyomkin and Christian Lowe When a Russian sociologist wrote a newspaper column last month suggesting the global financial crisis could cause social unrest, the state media watchdog advised the paper
By John O’Donnell More than a decade after holocaust survivors won compensation from Swiss banks for emptying Jewish accounts that had lain dormant since the war, the pressure is on again to
Factbox Greece's two largest union federations held a nationwide general strike on Wednesday in protest at the conservative government's policies, as anger at economic hardships fuelled the worst riots in decades. Here
(Reuters) European leaders are due to plan their next moves to bring economies back from a precipice in a two-day summit from Thursday. The European Union summit in Brussels on Dec. 11
