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• How Spas Manage Stress

  So you want to escape from the economic malaise and set your mind adrift with a 50- minute deep facial or a 50-minute deep massage for $95 each. Posted Nov 30 2008, 04:00 PM by washingtonpost.com - Business Filed under: Washington, DC, Wall Street, New York, United States, Bethesda, Dupont Circle, Pennsylvania, Texas, The Washington Post Company, Southwest Airlines Inc., West Virginia, How, London, Stanford University, Mount Pleasant, Spas, Craigslist Inc., Peru, Stress, University of Houston, Eyal Uzana, Carl Boger, International Spa Association, Erin Morris, National Cathedral School, Elizabeth Snowdon, Manage, Hilton College

• Markets Don't Make Bubbles, People Do

  THE ASCENT OF MONEY A Financial History Of the World By Niall Ferguson Posted Nov 29 2008, 04:00 PM by washingtonpost.com - Business Filed under: Washington, DC, Wall Street, United States, Henry M. Paulson, Markets, Milton Friedman, CNBC Inc., MSNBC Interactive News LLC, Cable News Network LP LLLP, Los Angeles Times, Harvard University, Do, British Broadcasting Corporation, China, London, Japan, Make, George Soros, Don't, Penguin Group, People, G20 Industrial Nations, Peter L. Bernstein, Niall Ferguson, Hernando de Soto, Nathan Rothschild, Jacob Bronowski, Babylon, Joseph Schumpeter, John Train, Heinrich Heine, Wellington, John Law, Bubbles,, Adam Smith

• Citigroup to Eliminate 50,000 Jobs After Posting Steep Mortgage Losses

  Citigroup will reduce its global workforce by about 50,000 jobs, or about 15 percent, as the financial services giant tries to steady itself after recording losses of more than $20 billion over the past year, executives said yesterday. Posted Nov 17 2008, 04:00 PM by washingtonpost.com - Business Filed under: New York, United States, to, Bethesda, After, Wells Fargo & Company, Citigroup Inc., U.S. Department of the Treasury, India, The Associated Press, London, Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Wachovia Corporation, Jobs, Losses, Mortgage, steep, Citigroup, Vikram Pandit, Chevy Chase Bank FSB, 50,000, Posting, Eliminate, Win Bischoff

• A Conversion in 'This Storm'

  First of two articles Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr. had a stern message for more than two dozen of the nation's most powerful hedge fund managers gathered in the third-floor conference room near his office. Paulson told them it was time to begin regulating the opaque realm of hedge fun... Posted Nov 17 2008, 04:00 PM by washingtonpost.com - Business Filed under: Washington, DC, Wall Street, U.S. Federal Reserve, New York, Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc., Ben Bernanke, Henry M. Paulson, In, A, Europe, The White House, George W. Bush, Barclays plc, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Lehman Brothers Inc., Federal Reserve Bank of New York, U.S. Department of the Treasury, Enron Corporation, Barack Obama, Illinois, Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc., London, Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Wachovia Corporation, Richard Fuld, Capitol Hill, Washington Mutual Inc., Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Sheila Bair, Christopher Cox, Timothy Geithner, John Thain, American International Group Inc., John Mack, Storm', Conversion, 'This

• Gloom Goes Up Around Globe as Signs Point Down

  Evidence of a broad global recession continued to accumulate yesterday, with U.S. officials reporting a spike in jobless claims, Germany confirming that its economy has shrunk for six consecutive months, and the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development projecting a... Posted Nov 13 2008, 04:00 PM by washingtonpost.com - Business Filed under: United States, Europe, Dow Jones & Co. Inc., As, Goes, Down, Up, International Monetary Fund, China, Germany, Asia, London, Japan, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Intel Corporation, Signs, Paris, Gloom, Point, International Energy Agency, High Frequency Economics, Ian Shepherdson, Around, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Federal Statistical Office of Germany, Jorgen Elmeskov, Globe

• Celtic Tiger Chained By Europe

  DUBLIN When Ireland entered the world's most ambitious economic alliance -- the European Union -- the Celtic Tiger roared to life. Membership in Europe's private club, along with the subsequent adoption of the euro, lured scores of multinational companies to this country and ushered in an unprece... Posted Nov 12 2008, 04:00 PM by washingtonpost.com - Business Filed under: Washington, DC, U.S. Federal Reserve, United States, European Union, Europe, by, Bank of England, London, Spain, Dublin, Deutsche Bank AG, France, Dell Inc., Ireland, European Central Bank, Denmark, Iceland, Brussels, Austria, Constantin Gurdgiev, Tom Mayer, Green Isle Foods, Chained, Mike Wallace, Siobhan Tobin, Lisbon Treaty, Tiger, NCB Stockbrokers Ltd., Celtic, Mark Doyle

• Europe Follows Bank of England In Cutting Rates

  LONDON, Nov. 6 -- Central banks across Europe slashed interest rates Thursday, expanding a campaign to head off a deep recession and following in the path their U.S. counterparts have undertaken for more than a year. Posted Nov 06 2008, 04:00 PM by washingtonpost.com - Business Filed under: Washington, DC, U.S. Federal Reserve, United States, In, United Kingdom, Europe, of, The Associated Press, International Monetary Fund, Bank of England, University of Oxford, Cutting, South Korea, London, Japan, Bank, European Central Bank, Rates, Czech Republic, Howard Schneider, Jean-Claude Trichet, Monetary Policy Committee, Christopher Allsopp, Swiss National Bank, Richard Lambert, England, Adam Lent, Trades Union Congress, Follows

• Discord on Economies In a World Of Trouble

  Presidents and prime ministers from major countries around the world will gather in Washington in two weeks to begin heated negotiations over the shape of global financial regulation as they scramble to avoid a deep worldwide recession and restore confidence in markets. Posted Nov 01 2008, 05:00 PM by washingtonpost.com - Business Filed under: Washington, DC, U.S. Federal Reserve, United States, In, on, A, European Union, United Kingdom, Europe, The White House, George W. Bush, of, World, India, The World Bank Group, John McCain, Barack Obama, International Monetary Fund, China, Bank of England, University of Oxford, Asia, London, Beijing, Tokyo, Shannon Smiley, Shanghai, Berlin, Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Akiko Yamamoto, Trouble, Paris, Gordon Brown, Dana Perino, White House National Security Council, UK Financial Services Authority, Nicolas Sarkozy, Karla Adam, Angela Merkel, Economies, Seoul, London School of Economics and Political Science, Bretton Woods, Willem Buiter, Taro Aso, Stella Kim, Dimitrios Tsomocos, Discord, Howard Davies, Tower of Babel, Robert Hormats, Michael Meister, Versailles, Institute of Finance

• Terrorism Financing Blacklists At Risk

  BRUSSELS -- The global blacklisting system for financiers of al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups is at risk of collapse, undermined by legal challenges and waning political support in many countries, according to counterterrorism officials in Europe and the United States. Posted Nov 01 2008, 05:00 PM by washingtonpost.com - Business Filed under: New York, United States, European Union, United Kingdom, Europe, George W. Bush, Al Qaeda, at, U.S. Department of the Treasury, Iraq, Afghanistan, Germany, London, Johannesburg, South Africa, U.S. Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control, Risk, U.S. Department of State, Turkey, France, Milan, The Taliban, Osama bin Laden, Switzerland, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Malaysia, United Nations, Pakistan, Hezbollah, Financing, Sweden, Bern, Denmark, Jiddah, Albania, European Parliament, Luxembourg, Liechtenstein, Terrorism, Michael Chandler, The British Army, United Nations Security Council, Brussels, Christine Schraner, Gilles de Kerchove, Youssef Nada, Victor D. Comras, Adam J. Szubin, European Court of Justice, Yassin Abdullah Kadi, Guy Martin, Swiss Department of Foreign Affairs, Armando Spataro, Farhad Dockrat, Muslim Brotherhood, Strasbourg, Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland, Alexander Alvaro, Richard Barrett, Blacklists, European Court of Human Rights, Council of Europe, Saad al-Fagih

• Brutal Month Ends With a Small Rally

  NEW YORK, Oct. 31 -- U.S. stocks rallied Friday afternoon, capping one of the worst October performances on record, characterized by giant swings and unprecedented volatility. Posted Oct 31 2008, 05:00 PM by washingtonpost.com - Business Filed under: Washington, DC, U.S. Federal Reserve, United States, JP Morgan Chase & Co., A, Dow Jones & Co. Inc., With, Rally, London, Philadelphia, Oppenheimer Holdings Inc., Chrysler Holding LLC, American Express Company, Month, Small, Blockbuster Inc., Ends, Avis Budget Group Inc., Las Vegas Sands Corp., Warren West, Playboy Enterprises Inc., Brutal

• Islamic Banking: Steady in Shaky Times

  JIDDAH, Saudi Arabia -- As big Western financial institutions have teetered one after the other in the crisis of recent weeks, another financial sector is gaining new confidence: Islamic banking. Posted Oct 30 2008, 05:00 PM by washingtonpost.com - Business Filed under: Wall Street, New York, United States, In, United Kingdom, Europe, Dow Jones & Co. Inc., Chicago, Times, London, Persian Gulf, Bahrain, Kuwait, Middle East, Saudi Arabia, Dubai, Malaysia, Shaky, Jiddah, Jane Kinninmont, Economist Intelligence Unit Ltd., Steady, Jawad Ali, Banking:, Majed al-Refaie, Amr al-Faisal, The Iman Fund, Tariq Malhance, Unicorn Investment Bank, Robert M. Kimmet, Tarek al-Bassam, Dubai Islamic Bank, Majid Dawood, Saxony-Anhalt, Ahmad Baqer, Dar al-Mal, Islamic

• Wall St.'s Denizens Look East

  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- Fahad al-Deweesh, a vice president at a Persian Gulf investment firm, is getting e-mails from old finance classmates at the University of Southern California he hasn't heard from in years, asking what the job market here looks like for Americans. Posted Oct 26 2008, 05:00 PM by washingtonpost.com Filed under: Washington, DC, Wall Street, New York, United States, United Kingdom, Lehman Brothers Inc., Wall, Mumbai, Iraq, University of Southern California, London, Shanghai, Persian Gulf, Africa, Singapore, France, U.S. Armed Forces, Baghdad, Switzerland, Middle East, Riyadh, Dubai, KKR & Co. LP, Look, East, Karla Adam, Fahad al-Deweesh, Amwal al-Khaleej, David Johnson (Executive), Whitehead-Mann Partnership, Dubai International Financial Centre, Denizens, Nancy Trejos, Robert Sloan, Oliver Holder, Makram Azar, Egon Zehnder International, St.'s

• Even the Midas Touch Isn't a Sure Bet

  Gold is for rich guys -- buying physical gold, that is. The metal's highest and best investment use is as an insurance policy against a currency collapse. For that purpose, you need a lot of it, stored around the world. Owning 20 or 30 coins is nice but won't protect your standard of living in a ... Posted Oct 25 2008, 05:00 PM by washingtonpost.com Filed under: United States, Australia, The, A, Barclays plc, Jane Bryant Quinn, Bloomberg LP, Alexis Leondis, Touch, Even, China, Internal Revenue Service, London, South Africa, Isn't, Canada, HSN LP, eBay Inc., Bet, Austria, The United States Mint, OnlyGold.com, Sure, Montreal, Midas, Scott Travers, Suki Cooper, Jon Nadler

• Around the World, the Signs Of Slowdown Spiral Outward

  Pessimism about the global economy deepened yesterday as fresh evidence of a worldwide slowdown showed up in feeble corporate profit reports from Asia, sinking commodities prices, and a scramble by emerging economies to prop up their sagging currencies and avert credit defaults. Posted Oct 24 2008, 05:00 PM by washingtonpost.com Filed under: Washington, DC, United States, The, Microsoft Corporation, United Kingdom, Europe, of, Dow Jones & Co. Inc., Citigroup Inc., Sony Corporation, Mumbai, India, Mexico, Tobias Levkovich, International Monetary Fund, China, Germany, Brazil, South Korea, Rama Lakshmi, Asia, London, Tokyo, Japan, Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc., Toyota Motor Corporation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cecilia Kang, Signs, OPEC, Gordon Brown, Pakistan, Kyodo News Agency, Ukraine, Iceland, Hungary, Belarus, Simon Johnson, Soleil Securities Group Inc., Slowdown, Canon Inc., Shinko Securities Co. Ltd., Freeport, Around, BOVESPA-Bolsa de Valores de Sao Paulo, Mary Jordan, David Cameron, Reserve Bank of India, Kendra Marr, Tsuyoshi Segawa, Charles Bradford,