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Portugal's top bankers have called on Europe's leaders to stop "playing with fire" and moderate their stance towards the euro zone periphery. The Financial Times reports.
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Eight months into the yen's steep decline and Japan's policymakers are starting to voice their concern about the pace of the currency's move.
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France has a special responsibility as a euro zone heavyweight to take deficit cuts seriously, even though its budget deficit is above target, Bundesbank chief Jens Weidmann said in an interview published Sunday.
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Thousands of people protested in Rome on Saturday against austerity policies and high unemployment, urging new Prime Minister Enrico Letta to focus on creating jobs to help pull Italy out of recession.
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The board of Yahoo agreed on Sunday to buy the popular blogging service Tumblr for about $1.1 billion in cash, a signal of how the company plans to reposition, the NYT reports.
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A Bangladesh factory where Wal-Mart Stores and Inditex inspectors spotted cracks in the wall this month is still making Wrangler shirts for the world's largest apparel maker, U.S.-based VF Corp.
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Brands from Belvedere to Magnum ice cream have ubiquitous presences during the Cannes Film Festival, hoping to boost their exposure.
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The beginning of the end of the Federal Reserve's massive bond-buying program might come sooner than many investors think if recent gains in the U.S. labor market do not prove fleeting.
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Cloud computing remains a major secular trend in technology, but investors may not fully appreciate the benefits for Amazon and Google.
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Denmark's Emmelie de Forest won Eurovision on Saturday before an international TV audience of around 125 million, clinching the coveted crown of euro-pop with a folksy ballad.
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High fees plus poor performance: The formula is pretty easy to determine what makes a bad mutual fund. Some, though, are worse than others.
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Olli Rehn, the European Union's top economic policy maker and scourge of debt-fueled budget deficits, is fed up with austerity.
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The renewable fuel sector struggles to find its voice in a world of renewed popularity for oil and gas. One part of that aims to transform agriculture waste into fuel.
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The world’s largest asset manager is far from being an activist investor, but it is starting to ask more questions, the New York Times reports.
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Sundance Film Festival winner "Fruitvale Station" is taking the Cannes Film Festival by storm.
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The growing role of the U.S. in world energy markets was underlined on Friday as the Obama administration approved wider exports of liquefied natural gas and international companies committed billions of dollars for new infrastructure.
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Wall Street bonuses and staff levels are expected to rise again in 2013, according to a closely watched report released on Friday by a compensation consultancy Johnson Associates.
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German ECB board member Joerg Asmussen warned on Friday that Europe's largest economy must carry out further reforms to continue to grow.
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Bullish momentum should drive stocks higher into the week ahead, with all eyes on a speech by Fed Chairman Bernanke.
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Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke painted an upbeat picture on Saturday for the potential of innovation to lift living standards.
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China and Brazil face opposite problems and should take tips from each other, according to Capital Economics.
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News that the Swedish capital of Stockholm has been hit by three nights of rioting has come as a surprise.
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Even as Apple faced a grilling from lawmakers over its tax avoidance schemes, two more companies revealed they would move to lighten their tax burden.
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Cherie Blair describes her battles with the British press over publishing details about her children's private lives.
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Former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair says press regulation in the aftermath of the Leveson Inquiry is a "straightforward" matter.
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Cherie Blair says the electoral success of Margaret Thatcher made her husband aware of the importance of claiming the center ground.