Agnes T. Crane
Agnes T. Crane is a Reuters Breakingviews columnist, based in New York, where she covers capital markets and Latin America. She joined from Dow Jones Newswires, where she was an award-winning journalist who led a team of reporters covering the credit crisis. Before that she worked at Market News International in New York and as a freelancer contributing to The Deal, Advertising Age and other publications during her four year stint in Mexico. Agnes holds a BA from Temple University in Philadelphia where she studied History. Follow Agnes on Twitter @agnestcrane
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Recent stories
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Global inflation slide stirs the bogeyman
In theory, inflation should have picked up when central banks cranked up the printing presses. Instead, it’s slowing down. In the U.S., it’s nearly 1 percentage point below target. Policymakers now have to start worrying about their worst enemy – deflation.
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Pyrrhic victory for Dimon is defeat for governance
JPMorgan chairman and CEO Jamie Dimon spent months focused on preserving a title when he should have been totally dedicated to running the largest U.S. bank. The episode perfectly illustrates the common sense behind separating the chairman and CEO roles.
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Did Brazil miss a trick on Petrobras bond sale?
President Dilma Rousseff uses the oil giant for many nationalistic purposes, though strengthening domestic capital markets isn’t apparently one. Issuing a slice of this week’s $11 bln bond offering in reais, though costly, would at least have been a better sort of meddling.
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