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...unchanged 0.00 (0.00%) at 5,399 Dax unchanged 0.00 (0.00%) at 13,126 Currencies €/$ 1.18 (1.18) $/¥ 112.75 (112.53) £/$ 1.34 (1.34) €/£ 0.8804 (0.881) Commodities ($) Brent Crude (ICE) up +0.44 at 62.88...
...Some people didn’t appreciate Alphaville’s recent comparison of Greece’s economic performance since 2007 with that of the United States during the Great Depression, which implied the Greek government missed...
...(0.00%) at 5,071 European markets Eurofirst 300 up +29.31 (+2.08%) at 1,441 FTSE100 up +129.76 (+2.16%) at 6,148 CAC 40 up +99.31 (+2.15%) at 4,724 Dax up +220.53 (+2.11%) at 10,690 Currencies €/$ 1.09...
...up +10.97 (+0.24%) at 4,657 Dax up +27.52 (+0.27%) at 10,255 Currencies €/$ 1.13 (1.13) $/¥ 120.84 (120.52) £/$ 1.55 (1.55) €/£ 0.7287 (0.7286) Commodities ($) Brent Crude (ICE) up +0.22 at 49.97 Light...
...(Asharq Al-Awsat) Video of the day Do board quotas work? The number of women on company boards has hit the 25 per cent target in the UK....
...(FT) Video of the day Martin Wolf on Grexit The Greek state is running out of cash and there may be no rescue this time. Martin Wolf talks about what happens in the case of a default....
...(FT) Protests and deaths on anniversary of Egypt uprising At least17 people were killed yesterday in the bloodiest protests since Abdel Fattah al-Sisi was elected, as security forces fired at protesters...
...US officials have defined the advances made by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (known as Isis) – an offshoot of al-Qaeda – as a potential direct threat to US national security....
...(Financial Times) “U.S. prosecutors are seeking more than $13 billion from Bank of America to resolve federal and state investigations of the lender’s sale of bonds backed by home loans in the run-up to...
...will test investor hopes for a pick-up in the U.S. and global economies… Bulls are hoping to see evidence of an economic rebound in the United States in this week’s busy calendar of data that includes the...
...Nasdaq up +14.40 (+0.37%) at 3,943 European markets Eurofirst 300 down -1.13 (-0.09%) at 1,285 FTSE100 up +8.16 (+0.12%) at 6,721 CAC 40 down -3.38 (-0.08%) at 4,272 Dax up +5.11 (+0.06%) at 8,986 Currencies...
...(Reuters, Al Jazeera — breaking at pixel) “Fidelity Investments, the nation’s largest money market mutual fund manager, has sold all of its short-term U.S. government debt — the latest sign that investors...
...up +20.99 (+0.55%) at 3,872 Dax up +53.67 (+0.65%) at 8,255 Currencies €/$ 1.31 (1.31) $/¥ 99.97 (99.57) £/$ 1.52 (1.52) Commodities ($) Brent Crude (ICE) down -0.14 at 108.47 Light Crude (Nymex) down...
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...“[B]y being a passive investor in the $1.5bn equity investment in Cheniere led by Blackstone, alongside Government of Singapore Investment Corp, and the state of Louisiana, CIC hopes to avoid the sort of...
...maritime solution US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met with Chinese President Hu Jintao today on a mission aimed partly at prevailing on China and Southeast Asian nations to use diplomacy instead of...
...Prices for steel are falling, demand is poor, loans are hard to come by, and no relief is in sight. http://on.ft.com/ThtTtG Clinton brings to Beijing plea for maritime solution US Secretary of State Hillary...
...+0.50% at 9,045 Topix up +0.60% at 786.35 Hang Seng down 0.00% at 20,887 Shanghai Composite down -0.58% at 2,338 MSCI Asia ex-Japan down -0.29% at 520.45 S&P CNX Nifty Index up +0.34% at 5,409 Currencies...
...uprising against the regime of Bashar al-Assad, the FT reports....
...DJIA down -0.09% at 12,709 S&P 500 up +0.05% at 1,316 Bovespa up +0.12% at 62,386 Asia Nikkei 225 up +0.22% at 8,785 Topix up +0.08% at 757.40 Hang Seng up +0.84% at 20,110 Shanghai Composite up +1.00%...
...since the fall of Zein al-Abidine Ben Ali, the dictator swept out of power by a popular uprising in January, the FT reports....
...€/$ 1.34 (1.33) $/¥ 76.88 (77.10) Commodities Brent Crude (ICE) down -0.40 at 102.36 Light Crude (Nymex) down -1.19 at 78.01 100 Oz Gold (Comex) up +36.00 at 1,656...
...currency market to hold down the value of the renminbi, the FT reports....
...defence Brazil has intervened to defend its plunging currency, the real, against a resurgent dollar for the first time in two years, in a sudden reversal of policy for Latin America`s largest economy, the...
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