Knowledge is power. And lack of knowledge is terrifying. This rather banal insight helps our readers by motivating our buys and sells.

Sweden has reached the real bottom line. Their central bank has cut interest rates it charges to banks to zero for 0.25%.

Challenged by a reader to prove that Confucius would have opposed today's Chinese familial political corruption despite his stress on filial piety, I was not short of citations.

We are thinking seriously about Ireland because its attractions as a corporate headquarters is becoming notorious. Today Medtronic, a US firm from Minneapolis announced that it would buy Covidien plc...

I wanted to claim a triumph, but it is hard to get excited about forcing the recognition of facts on a fellow-company in the information business.

Chris Loew, our Japan correspondent, writes on the contradictions of current Japanese economic policy; plus more financial news from Canada, India, Russia, Britain, Hong Kong, Denmark, Japan, Israel, Brazil, Jordan, Australia, and South Africa, including three quarterly reports.