Financial services
Smartphonatics are most common in India and China, probably because of the lack of access to traditional financial services (2)
Thursday May 24th 2012
Markets & data
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House-price index
Global house prices: Downdraft
European house prices are finding it harder to defy gravity (12)
The Big Mac index
Daily chart: The Big Mac index
Burgernomics shows Switzerland has the most overvalued currency (117)
Free exchange
Surf’s up
Merger waves mean that markets can consolidate rapidly. The next one is coming (6)
The euro area
Greece and the euro: Exodus, chapter 1
Two years after the crisis began, a Greek exit could still cause havoc (222)
Europe's economies
Britain's economy: Hard going
Steady growth and 2% inflation seem a long way off (1)
Americas
Brazil’s economy: A bull diminished
The economy has slowed, but there are still opportunities around (547)
Asia's economies
The economy: The air is thinning
Are China’s banks growing out of the government’s strait-jacket? (1)
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