A round-up of the key stories across the specialist financial media, including news that the Federal Reserve is expecting near-zero interest rates until 2014.
David Einhorn and his firm Greenlight Capital have been fined £7.2 million by UK regulators for trading ahead of a 2009 equity fundraising by Punch Taverns.
Bernanke has “finger on trigger” for new bond buys
The Federal Reserve is moving closer to embarking on a new round of securities purchasing after the central bank highlighted a negative outlook for the US economy.
The UK’s deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has called for higher taxes on the rich in order to speed-up a planned tax cut for low and middle-income workers.
The German chancellor has told the World Economic Forum that labour-market reform and the surrender of national sovereignty offer a more certain cure to the Eurozone’s financial woes.
