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Germany, the euro zone's largest economy, is on track for a recovery thanks to a pick-up in demand for its products from abroad, the Bundesbank said on Tuesday.
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France’s economy will come through and “resist the crisis” despite worries about low growth and the need for labor market reform, its Finance Minister Pierre Moscovici told CNBC.
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Protesters packed the streets of central Madrid on Monday evening in a protest against the austerity measures of Mariano Rajoy's government.
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Drastic falls in the price of oil and gold, doubling of the yield in 30-year Treasurys and mass nationalizations in Japan’s struggling electronics industry may be on the agenda next year.
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France’s socialist government seized on better than expected economic growth figures to reject concern that France could become the next focus of the euro zone crisis, insisting it is acting to reform the flagging economy. The FT reports.
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The Swiss National Bank is opening a branch in Singapore to allow for round-the-clock management of its foreign exchange reserves, which it needs to tap to defend the safe-haven franc from over-heating.
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European bank debt, once an investment pariah, is suddenly popular. The NYT reports.
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Spain may not be fully out of the woods, but investors' favorable attitude towards the country suggests it is biding its time well and may get not need to request a bailout, analysts told CNBC.
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The common currency is steadying and the yen is sliding - which is giving this pro an idea.
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CNBC's Kelly Evans reports on all the market moving events from Europe, including
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European stocks ended lower on Thursday, with a key index hitting a two-month low, as data that showed the euro zone had slipped into recession again spooked investors.
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New European Central Bank powers to oversee euro zone banks will help restore confidence in the sector and revive interbank lending, its president, Mario Draghi, said on Monday.
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Spain's economy is sinking deeper into recession, experts agree that the country will miss its budget targets and a several ECB officials have said Spain urgently needs a bailout, yet the bond market is dancing to a completely different tune.
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Daniel Rosen, Partner, Rhodium Group says investors should take risk despite the market volatility, adding that "sitting at home" will get you nowhere.
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Europe's largest financial institutions, which have been readjusting since the onset of the 2008 financial crash and the sovereign debt crisis that followed, are causing pain all over the globe that will have long term implications, according to analysts. They argue that the situation will only worsen without the proposed European banking union.
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As Southern Europe looks to be getting its house in order in the wake of the currency bloc’s debt crisis, a new report suggests France’s weaknesses are now becoming even more apparent.
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Rick Santelli strongly objects when Kelly Evans quotes a strategist calling the Republicans "lunatics" for threatening to push the U.S. into a "technical default" by failing to raise the U.S. debt ceiling.
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During a visit to the Bank of England on Thursday, the Queen was overheard asking whether a "lax" attitude to financial regulation had contributed to the financial crisis.
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CNBC's Ross Westgate reports stocks edged lower in a choppy day of trading after data on Europe's service sector showed a mixed picture.
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Japan could face aggressive new stimulus moves and the euro zone is back in recession — it's time for your FX Fix.
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Joe Weisenthal, deputy editor at Business Insider, tells CNBC that the euro zone needs to establish a transfer union like the one in the United States, where rich countries subsidize poorer ones.
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Further unrest in the South African mining sector has increased the chances of another credit rating downgrade, an analyst told CNBC.
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The big divergence over the past few months in the direction of the S&P 500 and copper.
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Citigroup's Jonathan Stubbs told CNBC that European equities have "rarely" been so appealing to investors.
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Rumors that Brazil's social security fund called Bolsa Familia was to be cancelled led to a bank run over the weekend.
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An independent Scotland is at risk of a Cyprus-style banking crisis, as its banking sector would be "exceptionally large."
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As U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron heads to Brussels this week to discuss EU tax policies, he knows there are far more taxing questions at home regarding regarding the EU.
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Louisa Bojesen takes you through the European market close, where stocks have come in lower on Fed fears.
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Eric Wasserstrom, managing director at Suntrust Robinson Humphrey, tells CNBC that in his own view the Jamie Dimon JPMorgan vote is unlikely to garner sufficient support to compel the board to make a change.
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Jed Kolko, chief economist at Trulia, tells CNBC that the housing starts tumble is likely to be a blip and should recover next month.