Here is our photo gallery to sum up a roller coaster financial year.
2012, here are the protagonists: an x-ray of a financial year
From the outgoing premier, Mario Monti, and his fight against the euro crisis, to Mark Zuckerberg, the father of Facebook (struggling with his first difficulties), passing through Brunello Cucinelli, the Umbrian entrepreneur, at the origin of the only Ipo of the year, our roundup of personalities for 2012 now at the end