Business & finance

Facebook's flotation

Red faces

The social network's debut as a public company has not gone smoothly (6)

Consumer banking

Counter revolution

Fusty old retail banking faces its biggest shake-up in 200 years (9)

Special report: The internet and mobile phones are at long last turning boring old retail banking into an exciting industry (5)
Our correspondents discuss how new technologies will affect the future of retail banking (2)

The internet business in Russia

Europe’s great exception

Why local firms dominate the Russian internet (4)

Trade agreements

Competing strategies

China and America compete to lead regional free-trade arrangements (3)

Private space flight

Not quite breathing fire

The SpaceX Dragon's launch is delayed yet again (43)

The endangered public company

The big engine that couldn’t

Public companies have had a difficult decade, battered by scandals, tied up by regulations and challenged by alternative corporate forms (51)

JPMorgan's trading loss

Confidence game

Even the soundest banks are at risk when confidence is shaky (20)

Greece and the euro crisis

The Greek run

It is not a good idea for Greece to leave the euro. But it is time to prepare for its departure (729)

Schumpeter column

Pretty profitable parrots

For businesses, being good at copying is at least as important as being innovative (39)

Optoelectronics

Graphene shows its colours

A much-vaunted new material may change telecommunications (10)

Airlines and pollution

Europe against the world

But only Chinese and Indian airlines are failing to comply with the EU’s controversial aviation policy (105)

Global poverty

Hope springs a trap

An absence of optimism plays a large role in keeping people trapped in poverty (53)

The long goodbye

At long last Yahoo! and Alibaba will part ways, albeit slowly

The price of being female

Auction houses are finally including more women artists

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Capital flight

Calculating the outflows

Two’s company

The world’s most exclusive social network

Duelling the duopolies

New entrants to the world jetliner market struggle to take off

Canadians clubbed

A little-noticed fraud case in Florida has big repercussions for banks

Risky talk

The great and good (and some students) meet at St Gallen. But what is the purpose of such gatherings?

Frontier mentality

A new fund attests to the country’s allure—and to the value of connections

American Airlines

A new look for some old birds

An enlightening mistake

Shining light on an issue that has hitherto been as frustratingly murky as it has been controversial

Gacha? Gotcha!

Bureaucrats clamp down on a tech billionaire

China has overtaken the US as the world’s biggest grocery market (Economist Intelligence Unit)

How applicable to the rest of the US is California’s pioneering green policymaking (Economist Intelligence Unit)

The Economist Asks

Will Greece leave the euro zone this year?

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