LONDON (Reuters) - The toppling of the Berlin Wall made free market economics the norm across Europe - but which financial markets have done the best since then? Wall Street and the BRICs, of course.

From Slate: "If the Berlin Wall were still standing, which is to say if the Cold War were still raging, it is hard to imagine that there would have been an Arab Spring or a thriving al-Qaida. One ...

Germany opened Monday a week of festivities marking three decades since the fall of the Berlin Wall, but a hint of a return of the Cold War and the rise of nationalism is dampening the mood. Leaders ...

The fall of Venezuela’s socialist regime marks a generational turning point akin to the collapse of the Berlin Wall, according to an energy expert who says the scenes unfolding there echo the ...

The brutal regime in Cuba is collapsing in real time. Its economy is in free fall, its people are starving, and its communist dictatorship is running out of money, fuel and legitimacy. After more than ...

The people of Berlin woke on August 13 1961 to discover that their city had been split in two. The Berlin Wall inspired David Bowie’s song Heroes (1977), with its poignant lyrics about two lovers, ...