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Private equity funds are only too willing to respond and clamber on as saviours

In a best case scenario, there will only be a slight dampening of growth

Global investors are starting to feel jittery over corporate bond exposures

With local lenders paralysed by the credit crunch, foreign banks provide more than 60% of all debt financing for US commercial real estate

In talks to buy J&J’s blood testing unit in what would be about a $4b deal

They are on a merry run second guessing each of its moves but what happens next

Keeping watch over too distant a horizon could come with unforeseen shocks

In fact, risk-averse savers and retirees have every reason to feel hard done by

Twitter is now down about 60% from its high, illustrating how quickly companies that were once the coolest can lose that status

Reforms are not coming fast enough for them to generate revenues to pay up

World trade volumes have not been growing to inspire confidence for Asian economies

China certainly has not fired the first shot in the current battle