WSJ.com: Davos Live

Davos Diary: A Transformational Year

Mon, 02 Feb 2009 15:39:59 GMT

Guest-blogger Mark Spelman, who leads Accenture�s Global Strategy practice, is writing for Davos Live. The conclusion to be drawn from the conference at the Swiss resort, he says, is that 2009 will be a year of volatility, opportunity, challenge and transformation.

Davos Diary: 2009 Summit in Four Words

Mon, 02 Feb 2009 15:25:41 GMT

Guest-blogger Mark Spelman, who leads Accenture�s Global Strategy practice, is writing for Davos Live every day of the conference. As Davos has ended, he shares his impressions from the 2009 World Economic Forum.

Davos on MySpace

Sat, 31 Jan 2009 22:07:24 GMT

MySpace and the Wall Street Journal have teamed up with the World Economic Forum to send a MySpace user on an all-expenses-paid trip to Davos this year. Rebecca McQuigg, from Los Angeles, won the once-in-a-lifetime trip thanks to her video submission and has been in Switzerland this week, sending [...]

ECB Drawing Up ‘Bad Bank’ Guidelines

Sat, 31 Jan 2009 18:26:58 GMT

The European Central Bank is drawing up guidelines for European governments that are considering so-called �bad banks� to house banks� toxic assets. The ECB is also working on guidelines for European governments that plan to guarantee toxic assets remaining on banks� books, another form of bank bailout. Both sets of guidelines [...]

Lagarde: No ‘Bad Bank’ for France

Sat, 31 Jan 2009 16:29:08 GMT

French Finance Minister Lagarde said that setting up a bad bank, is "not at all" a consideration in France.

Aso: Japan Plans Asian Development Aid

Sat, 31 Jan 2009 15:33:00 GMT

Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso said Saturday that Japan will give 1.5 trillion yen ($16.6 billion) in development assistance to other Asian countries to help tackle the economic crisis.

WSJ’s Alan Murray: More Questions Than Answers at Davos

Sat, 31 Jan 2009 13:57:29 GMT

WSJ's Alan Murray says that on preventing another financial crisis, there were more questions than answers at Davos.

Kofi Annan: It Is Time, Now, For Action

Sat, 31 Jan 2009 12:42:53 GMT

Kofi Annan's Davos Diary In his final post, the former U.N. Secretary-General says extreme expectations of this week's Davos conference were always wide of the mark, but that leaders have to "to move beyond declarations of principle to action".

Economic Impact ‘Worse Than Expected’

Fri, 30 Jan 2009 19:27:56 GMT

Bear Blog: Martin Senn, CIO of Zurich Financial Services, thinks the economic slowdown will be "worse than we anticipate. None of us has lived through something like this before. But from what we know now, it�s bad enough that governments have to come in, that huge companies disappear or are [...]

Davos Diary: Climate Change and Energy

Fri, 30 Jan 2009 19:20:58 GMT

Guest-blogger Mark Spelman, who leads Accenture�s Global Strategy practice, is writing for Davos Live every day of the conference. The latest discussions in the Swiss resort have, he says, focused on what we do about climate change and energy policy.