The European Union is set to initial a draft deal with South Korea that represents its first big opportunity to take the lead, while the US's pact with Seoul languishes unratified in a recalcitrant Congress

  Despite warnings that finished goods were being dumped on global markets, figures show that falls in exports and imports were smaller than most expected in September amid wider expectations that third-quarter GDP growth will exceed 9%

  Gold industry groups have stepped up marketing campaigns to persuade Indians to indulge in their love affair with the precious metal, after they have been put off by higher prices this year

  The call to loosen restrictions follows a sharp rise in cost and drop in volume for trade finance over the past year, which has sparked alarm among companies and led to a flurry of support programmes

  Carry trading is hot again but it will end in tears just like last time as exchange rates rebalance

  Regulators are suggesting that the Group of 20 nations should give an international body the power to report on, and possibly enforce, global regulatory standards

  The future of investing: After a crisis that overturned assumptions, fund managers have to think afresh about the basis on which they buy and sell.

  The data, which were analysed at the Polar Ocean Physics Group, reveal sea ice in the region is significantly thinner than satellite images previously showed, cutting the period forecast for summer sea ice melt

  The financial crisis: A year since America adopted the rescue plan first activated by Gordon Brown, his role in saving the world banking system is disputed by some but hailed by others

  The experience of the airline industry illustrates the phenomenon of regulatory capture – the tendency for regulators to see through the eyes of the industry they regulate, writes John Kay

  Recent figures have proved that the dollar's fall is a symptom of success, not of failure. All the same, the dollar-based global monetary system is defective. It would be good to start building alternative arrangements, writes Martin Wolf

  Political reality is that a 'right to health' is a trump card to get more resources – and it is rarely the poor who play it most effectively, writes William Easterly

  The importance of fair value accounting to responsible systemic risk management is hard to overstate, writes Lloyd Blankfein, chief executive of Goldman Sachs

  The big protest by workers after their summer break went almost without notice and now the heads of the two biggest trade unions say they have to do more