Brace yourselves.
It could be just a matter of days to weeks before a new leg of the systemic crisis therefore hits markets. Expect Italy, then Belgium but also other EGB to widen sharply. Read more
Summit Partners, the Boston-based private equity group, will on Monday announce it has raised a maiden €1bn ($1.56bn) European fund to finance investments in mid-sized buy-outs and growth capital investments. The move reflects the growing appetite among US buy-out firms to expand into less mature markets in Europe and Asia, where there is less competition for deals and investments. Summit, which was founded in 1984 primarily as a venture capital investor, opened a London office in 2001 and has invested in nine European companies including Actix, the UK mobile phone software maker. Read more
1Bernanke weighs in on robot wars; brings Keynes for backup
2Pump up, debase
3S&P 2,100, by Goldman Sachs
4Collateral crunch-counting gets sophisticated
5Apple Operations International, facts (?) du jour
Show more6Secret liquidity and Scottish independence
7The risk of a Japanese VaR shock
8In which the FTSE puts the crisis behind it
9Further reading
10A Kazakh muddle
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