This covers a host of businesses that provide steady income and are not too capital-intensive, such as corporate cash management, foreign exchange, trade finance, global custody and hedge-fund administration.

ECONOMIST: Why the industry��s best days may be behind it

"We have been very focused in calling for a breakthrough now, " says Mary Irace, vice president of trade and export finance for the National Foreign Trade Council, a pro-trade industry group in Washington.

FORBES: Restarting Doha

The problem is not so much the budget deficit (though Greece was certainly profligate) as the net foreign borrowing by all actors, public and private (say to finance a trade deficit).

ECONOMIST: Charlemagne

Once they were the stomping grounds of China's foreign and local capitalist elite -- grown rich on new industries such as textiles, trade and finance.

WSJ: Touring Asia's Art Deco Gems in Shanghai and Napier, New Zealand

Also remaining in the same posts were Daim Zainuddin (finance, special functions), Syed Hamid Albar (foreign), Rafidah Aziz (international trade and industry), Ling Liong Sik (transport) and Samy Vellu (works).

CNN: Stirred But Not Shaken

"We view foreign investments as a source of technology, finance and means of creating gainful employment in the country, " Trade Minister Anand Sharma said Monday.

WSJ: H&M Seeks Permission to Open Stores in India