Lots worth reading today, with most of it about the G20 Summit outcome:
- G20 Summit: the key agreements (Telegraph)
- Q&A: the G20 Summit (Guardian)
- G20 leaders hail crisis fightback (Financial Times)
- G20 summit: Gordon Brown unveils $1.1 trillion global recession fight-back (Telegraph)
- Today's G20 deal will solve financial crisis, claims Gordon Brown (Guardian)
- G20 Shapes New World Order With Lesser Role for U.S. (Bloomberg)
- Wall St. Cheered by Moves to Contain Crisis (Washington Post)
The G20 implications for banks:
- Leaders see end to banking secrecy (Financial Times)
- G20 heading towards hedge-fund regulation (Euractiv)
- G20 summit: Global financial crackdown is cost of solving crisis (Telegraph)
- The G20 moves the world a step closer to a global currency (Telegraph)
- Regulators seek to limit fall-out from crises (Financial Times)
- Basel brush: Regulators’ new blueprint for bank supervision avoids the trickiest bits (The Economist)
And a few things that you might have missed about the G20 meeting:
- G-20 Dispatch: Interview with Musician Bob Geldof (New York Times)
- G20 summit: Other events at ExCeL centre (Telegraph)
- Credit crisis diary: The (rare) highlights of the G20 demonstration (Independent)
The rest of the general reading includes:
- Speech by Jean-Claude Trichet, President of the ECB and Lucas Papademos, Vice President of the ECB
- ECB divided as Trichet hints at plan to print money (Independent)
- European Central Bank dashes economists' hopes (Guardian)
- US suspends mark-to-market rules on bank assets (Independent)
- Under New Accounting Rule, Toxic Assets May Be Revalued (Washington Post)
- Analysis of knees could be used to confirm people’s identities (The Economist)
- Google In Late Stage Talks To Acquire Twitter (Techcrunch)
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