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German business morale rose far more than expected in May, suggesting Europe's largest economy is picking up steam after posting anaemic growth in the first quarter.
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CNBC's Simon Hobbs reports on all the market moving events in Europe today, including
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Louisa Bojesen takes you through the European market close, where stocks have come in lower.
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British police arrested two men on a Pakistan International Airlines flight on Friday on suspicion of "endangerment of an aircraft".
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Russia's leading online social network was briefly banned on Friday, in a move dismissed as a "mistake" but which follows intensifying official pressure on the company.
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German business morale rose far more than expected in May, suggesting Europe's largest economy is picking up steam after posting anaemic growth in the first quarter.
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U.K. banks are still lending too little to the real economy, according to Andrew Haldane, the BoE's executive director for financial stability.
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Mario Draghi, head of the European Central Bank (ECB) insisted that the euro zone was more stable than a year ago but that the region needed more integration - and the U.K should be a part of that.
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One thing the world's central bankers can take away from this week's market volatility: They need to do a better job of communicating.
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CNBC's Ross Westgate reports on all the market moving events from Europe, including
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David Mackie, chief European economist at JPMorgan and Andrew Sentance, senior economic adviser at PwC, explain why the U.K should remain a member of the EU.
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A plane travelling from London to Oslo was forced to make an emergency landing after a fault in one of the engines.
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European shares opened higher on Friday, following a volatile session in Asia.
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Holger Schmieding, chief economist at Berenberg Bank, says the overall global economic picture is improving with Europe slowly pulling out of recession and the U.S. private sector looking more solid.
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Big companies' tax affairs in Europe are to be opened up to greater public scrutiny with the EU rushing out a law to reveal corporate profits and taxes on a country-by-country basis, the FT reports.
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Britain came within six hours of running out of natural gas in March, highlighting the risk of supply shortages amid declining domestic production, the FT reports.
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A magnitude 8.2 earthquake struck Russia'a Far East in the Sea of Okhotsk off the Kamchatka Peninsula, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
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Louisa Bojesen takes you through the European market close, where stocks are sharply lower.
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CNBC's Simon Hobbs reports on all the market moving events in Europe today, including
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Two British men of Nigerian descent accused of hacking a soldier to death on a London street in revenge for wars in Muslim countries were known to security services.
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An international study on recessions and governments' responses to them has found that cuts to healthcare systems prompted by fiscal austerity are making matters far worse - for both governments and society.
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Investor optimism over the outlook for the Japan's stock market remains unshaken.
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The volatility in the Japanese government debt market has unnerved investors in domestic banks.
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We've identified some of the biggest carry trades based on either the interest rate differential or their popularity.
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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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Harry Tchilinguirian, head of commodities market strategy at BNP Paribas, tells CNBC that continued QE by the US Fed, a pickup in the Chinese economy and a continued squeeze on Iranian production will drive oil up.
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Louisa Bojesen takes you through the European market close, where stocks have come in lower.
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Carlos Caicedo, head of Latin America at Exclusive Analysis, tells CNBC that Brazil has already had one trillion of investment in preparation for the World Cup and Olympics.