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Successive Slovenian governments have refused to privatize the country's banks, which made disastrous loans to politically connected business interests and now threaten to drag the country center stage in the euro zone debt crisis.
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CNBC's Kelly Evans reports European shares were mixed ahead of policy decisions by the European Central Bank and the Bank of England.
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Marcus Ashworth, head of fixed income at Espirito Santo Investment Bank, and Guillaume Menuet, European economist at Citi, discuss why the ECB should cut rates in the near future.
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Valentijn Van Nieuwenhuijzen, head of strategy at ING Investment Management, tells CNBC that the ECB's OMT is a 'very powerful force' driving 'surprising resilience' in peripheral bond markets.
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Stephane Deo, global head of asset allocation at UBS, warns that markets are now pricing in bank risk, which Mario Draghi and the ECB must address on Thursday.
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Stefan Schneider, research chief international economist and head of macro economy at Deutsche Bank, tells CNBC that the ECB is not responsible for bailing out Europe's politicians, as well as economies.
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Nick Carn, founder of Carn Macro Advisors says that while global economic growth remains weak, central bank action is cheering markets.
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Padhraic Garvey, head of developed markets rates and debt strategy at ING, discusses the effectiveness of interest rates as a central bank policy tool and the market's expectations of the ECB meeting.
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CNBC reporter Julia Chatterly is served coffee as she waits on Mario Draghi's key policy statement and press conference.
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Todd Elmer, Currency Strategist at Citi remains cautious on the yen while weighing the impact of BoJ easing and other global central bank strategies on major currencies across the board.
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Roelof van den Akker, senior technical analyst at ING Wholesale Banking, gives CNBC a technical look at the euro ahead of Thursday's ECB press conference.
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Yra Harris, partner at Praxis Trading, tells CNBC that the IMF and Jeroen Dijsselbloem's actions have forced ECB president Mario Draghi's hand, so that now he must deliver on his promises.
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Cyprus's troubles offer Mario Draghi an "excellent justification" to cut interest rates at Thursday's European Central Bank meeting, according to a research note by Dutch bank ING.
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Richard Kelly, head of European rates and FX research at TD Securities, and Kathleen Brooks, research director UK EMEA at Forex.com, discuss on CNBC why there is so much pessimism in the build up to Thursday's Bank of Japan meeting.
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CNBC's Kelly Evans reports European shares are trading lower on Wednesday as political uncertainty in Italy continues to shake stocks.
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The rate of consumer price inflation in the 17 countries using the euro fell to an annual rate of 1.7 percent in March. It could provide a rationale for an interest rate cut when central bankers meet on Thursday.
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CNBC's Kelly Evans reports European stocks shrugged off weak economic data and marched higher in today's market action.
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Manufacturing across the euro zone fell deeper into decline in March, although the Cyprus bailout crisis has yet to take a toll on factory activity, a business survey showed on Tuesday.
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Holger Schmieding, chief economist at Berenberg Bank, discusses euro zone data and says that while there is not much the ECB can do, policy makers should send a signal of confidence.
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Big depositors at Cyprus' largest bank may be forced to accept losses of up to 60 percent, far more than initially estimated under the European rescue package to save the country from bankruptcy.
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