The latest Amazon Kindle e-reader Amazon unveiled two lighter, more advanced versions of the Kindle e-reader today, alongside a new UK ebook store that it claimed will send sales of the device soaring in Britain. Faced with growing competition in the e-reader market, Amazon has redesigned the... 

HSBC building Hong Kong. Photograph: dbimages/Alamy HSBC is channelling resources to Asia because it believes the Chinese economy will outstrip America’s by the end of the decade and provide the bank with bigger profits. Amid a debate in the UK about how to encourage banks to increase... 

The pawnbroker . . . more civilised than a loan shark. Photograph: Alamy The pawnshop has been rehabilitated, and apparently this is not even such a Bad Thing. The decline of these seedy outlets was once measured in inverse proportion to the advance of the welfare state, until such businesses... 

Stock Trading Stock trading is not literally trading of stocks. You won’t hear participants saying “I’ll trade my stocks in Nokia for your stocks in Motorola.” Stock trading is really buying and selling of stocks. It can be done either personally in the physical trading floor of a stock exchange or virtually...