Escalating violence in the Persian Gulf and North Africa have raised widespread concerns over the stability of global oil supplies for the first time since the Mid-East turmoil began. 18 Feb 2011 As Britain’s David Cameron embraces the ideal of worker co-operatives, a remarkable hi-tech variant with global operations is already thriving in the industrial heartland of Northern Spain. 16 Feb 2011 US President Barack Obama faces a stiff battle with Republican foes in Congress after unveiling plans for $7.2 trillion (£4.5 trillion) of deficit spending over the next decade. 14 Feb 2011 Confidence among British companies tumbled in January as fiscal tightening began to bite and stagflation fears took hold, raising the spectre of a double-dip downturn. 14 Feb 2011 British employers are stepping up the pace of job cuts while average pay in the public sector is likely to be cut this year, but there are tentative signs that the private sector is starting to pick up the growth baton. 14 Feb 2011 Nestled in the lush hills of the Basque Country – literally amid birdsong and Pyrennean lambs – a very young company called Industria de Turbo Propulsores (ITP) makes low-pressure turbine engines for half the world’s big passenger jets. 13 Feb 2011 Investors brushed aside concerns that violent protests in the gas-rich state of Algeria and further demonstrations in Yemen could destabilise the region or threaten oil supplies. 13 Feb 2011 Spain has imposed draconian rules on its saving banks and is preparing for part-nationalisation of the industry to boost its defences against contagion from the debt crisis in Portugal. 10 Feb 2011 The bee crisis has been treated as a niche concern until now, but as the UN's index of food prices hits an all time-high, it is becoming urgent to know whether the plight of the honey bee risks further exhausting our food security. 06 Feb 2011 European Central Bank has taken a strategic gamble that the current surge in food and commodity prices is not a repeat of the inflation virus of the 1970s and will subside without the need for a monetary squeeze. 03 Feb 2011 Deposit flight from Irish banks accelerated sharply at the end of last year on fears of political turmoil, suggesting that the EU-IMF rescue package for Ireland failed to restore confidence. 02 Feb 2011 The International Monetary Fund has warned that 'dangerous' imbalances have emerged that threaten to derail global recovery and stoke tensions that may ultimately set off civil wars. 01 Feb 2011 Risk analysts and intelligence agencies fear that Egypt's uprising may set off escalating protests in the tense Shia region of Saudi Arabia, home to the world's richest oilfields. 31 Jan 2011 Political risk has returned with a vengeance. The first food revolutions of our Malthusian era have exposed the weak grip of authoritarian regimes in poor countries that import grain, whether in North Africa today or parts of Asia tomorrow. 30 Jan 2011 Standard & Poor's has downgraded Japan for the first time in nine years, citing lack of a "coherent strategy" to control its monster deficits or grasp the nettle to reform. 27 Jan 2011 Asian and Middle-East investors have thronged to buy the first issue of AAA-rated bonds by the eurozone's new bail-out fund, marking a key moment in the evolution of Europe's monetary union. 25 Jan 2011 The International Monetary Fund issues its clearest warning to date that the latest US fiscal stimulus is ill-judged, unlikely to do much for growth and raises the risk of a bond crisis. 25 Jan 2011 Spain has set in motion a partial nationalisation of its crippled savings banks, or cajas, but stopped short of the giant rescue deemed necessary by some experts to contain the country’s festering crisis. 24 Jan 2011 We all learned at school how the status quo powers mismanaged the spectacular rise of Germany before World War I, a strategic revolution so like the rise of China today. 23 Jan 2011 Société Générale fears China has lost control over its red-hot economy and risks lurching from boom to bust over the next year, with major ramifications for the rest of the world. 20 Jan 2011 Brazil has raised interest rates sharply, following China, India and host of countries across the emerging world in acting to curb inflation and counter the flood of dollar liquidity from the US. 19 Jan 2011 Goldman Sachs has issued a short-term alert on China and India as inflation rears its ugly head, advising clients to rotate into Wall Street and Old World bourses as a safer bet over coming months. 18 Jan 2011 Let us assume for the sake of argument that Europe succeeds in containing the immediate EMU debt crisis, with help from Asia, and that Germany’s fractious coalition actually agrees to a bail-out fund big enough to make any difference. 16 Jan 2011 Members of Angela Merkel's coalition are resisting plans for an increase in the EU's bail-out fund, ahead of Monday's crucial meeting of EU finance ministers. 16 Jan 2011 Irish banks are running out of collateral they can use to borrow from the European Central Bank, turning instead to their own central bank on an unprecedented scale. 16 Jan 2011Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard has covered world politics and economics for a quarter century, based in Europe, the US, and Latin America. He joined the Telegraph in 1991, serving as Washington correspondent and later Europe correspondent in Brussels. He is now International Business Editor in London.
LATEST FROM AMBROSE EVANS-PRITCHARD
Bahrain killings bring turmoil to oil epicentre
Spain's astonishing co-op takes on the world
Obama tests bond markets with mega-deficits
Danger signal as UK services optimism plunges
UK jobs 'reckoning' hits in first quarter
Vibrant exports will save Spain, and perhaps the euro
Mid East markets recover on Egypt's optimism
Spain orders drastic caja debt clean-up
Einstein was right - honey bee collapse threatens global food security
Trichet retreats on rates as commodities spike
Irish bank flight quickens despite EU rescue
IMF fears civil wars as inequalities worsen
Mid-East contagion fears for Saudi oil fields
Egypt and Tunisia usher in the new era of global food revolutions
Japan downgrade a warning shot for US, EU
Massive demand for first Euro bail-out bond
IMF chides US for fiscal folly
Spain tempts fate with minimalist bank rescue
Appeasement is the proper policy towards Confucian China
SocGen crafts strategy for China hard-landing
Brazil slams brakes to curb inflation
Goldman shuns BRICs for Wall St
EMU policies are pushing Southern Europe into systemic political crisis
German coalition split over EU's bail-out fund
Irish lenders besiege ECB for loans
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