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Following the FTSE's rally to its highest level in over five years, Citigroup's Jonathan Stubbs told CNBC that European equities have "rarely" been so appealing to investors.
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It is a once in a generation moment. For the first time in more than 50 years UK pension funds are holding more bonds than equities. The FT reports.
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Spain plans to offer residency permits to foreigners who buy houses priced at more than 160,000 euros ($203,845) as part of its efforts to revive a collapsed real estate market and divest itself of hundreds of thousands of unsold homes.
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Ratings agency Moody's Investors Service stripped France of its prized triple-A credit rating on Tuesday, triggering worries the move could heighten the risk of a downgrade for other top-rated nations, including the United States and the single currency bloc’s largest economy Germany.
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Kevin Gardiner, head of global investment strategy at Barclays, tells CNBC that the storm clouds are lifting over the global economy although he expects the euro zone to remain flat.
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The European stock indexes closed sharply higher on Monday on signs of progress in U.S. negotiations to avert the looming $600 billion “fiscal cliff” of tax hikes and spending cuts.
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The terms of a state bailout scheme for Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena, Italy's third biggest lender, could pose more challenges to the bank's performance, the European Central Bank said.
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The recent wave of cyberattacks targeting major U.S. banks has cast doubt onto the effectiveness of security infrastructure within the online banking sector. Though worrisome, there is a potential beneficiary set to gain from this threat, explains one analyst: the cyber security industry.
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On top of cramming for his U.K. citizenship test, incoming Bank of England Governor Mark Carney faces a hunt for a family home in London
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During the past two years, the Eurozone focus has been on the ailing Southern European economies and their austerity fatigue. In the next two years, it will be on the last triple-A economies in Northern Europe and their bailout fatigue, including Finland.
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Marc Harris, RBC Capital Markets, explains the single, most important guideline investors need to follow in the New Year.
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This week is fixing to be an action packed one for the euro, and this strategist has a trading plan.
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Mark Matthews, Head of Research, Asia, at Bank Julius Baer tells CNBC's Cash Flow why he likes Southeast Asian and European markets for 2013.
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The S&P 500 is set to fall another 8 percent by the end of the year, on top of the 7 percent decline seen since the year’s high reached in September, according to a new strategy note by Goldman Sachs.
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Mario Monti will take part in Italy’s elections in February, media reports said on Thursday, confirming speculation that the Italian prime minister will join a centrist group and remain in politics to lead Italy out of the debt crisis.
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Risk appetite is on the rise and the Bank of India is ready to move — it's time for your FX Fix.
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Danish conglomerate AP Møller-Maersk has delivered a damning assessment of the state of the container shipping sector by signalling it will switch investment to its other businesses. The FT reports.
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Deutsche Telekom Chief Executive Rene Obermann is stepping down at the end of next year.
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Markets are on alert for Fed speak this week, and whether that could finally trigger 'Sell in May'.
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I was just at an interesting lunch with Garry Kasparov, the man who became the youngest world chess champion in history in 1985 at the age of 22.
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Eight months into the yen's steep decline and Japan's policymakers are starting to voice their concerns.
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Beppe Grillo told CNBC that parties which make up Italy's coalition government will become history.
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The Australian dollar has had a swift, hard fall and now Goldman Sachs is predicting it could fall to as low as $0.80.
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Billionaire George Soros reduced his holdings of exchange-traded products backed by gold prior to last month's freefall.
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Nick Tolchard, head of Invesco Middle East tells CNBC they have seen more money flowing into private equity investment.
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Bob Parker, senior adviser at Credit Suisse, tells CNBC that it is premature to reopen long commodity positions and how he doesn't see anything that will support the gold price.
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Louisa Bojesen takes you through the European market close where stocks have ended mixed.