A fourth consecutive year of economic growth would be remarkable, but a US slowdown could spoil the run.

Alan Greenspan may have left his successor a legacy of policy credibility but with it comes an economy that is worse for wear.

If the US and Europe cannot agree on a common capital adequacy system, the idea of a level playing field will become a vain hope.

Research shows that foreign banks operating in Japan have found the going increasingly tough during the past 12 months while the US prepaid card market goes from strength to strength. Stephen Timewell explains.

The republican chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, Richard Shelby, has thrown his support behind the new chairman of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Christopher Cox. He also criticised former chair William Donaldson for failing to listen to his Republican peers.

The medium-term outlook for profits at US banks is gloomy, according to Andrew Smithers and George Leventis.

Implementation may be delayed again as the Americans say the changes in minimum required capital are too wide-ranging.

As neoconservative and George W Bush ally Paul Wolfowitz takes the top job, the developing world is keeping its fingers crossed.

Reaction to President George W Bush’s latest budget proposals – which were presented to Congress on February 7 – has been mixed, writes Jane Monahan in Washington.

Stephen Roach worries about how the US economy can exit low real interest rates sensitively.