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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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A 500-billion euro ($650 billion) bailout fund, one of the key tools of policymakers trying to find a solution to the euro zone debt crisis, will be launched later on Monday with Spain expected to be the first country to seek help from the fund.
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Europe may be pushing for fiscal and banking union to fight its debt crisis, but many richer regions, angry at having to finance poorer neighbors, are now calling for independence. The New York Times reports.
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There's a growing backlash against the BRIC countries — an acronym created by Jim O'Neill of Goldman Sachs for Brazil, Russia, India and China, as the four biggest emerging markets have underperformed their peers.
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Europe for now has a grip on the debt crisis, this strategist says, and he is ready to trade the improving market mood.
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European shares closed higher on Friday after the European Central Bank (ECB) said it was ready to start its bond-buying program at a press conference on Thursday.
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The price of gold is at an 11 month high and has rallied 14 percent since the start of the year but analysts have told CNBC that it’s set to go even higher tipping the $2,000 per ounce mark.
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A jobs report looms and South African unrest weighs on the rand — it's time for your FX Fix.
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It's been 50 years since James Bond first took to the screen. Author Ian Fleming's creation has gone on to become among the most successful British movie franchise to be exported around the world.
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With new sets of regulation for the banking sector both in Europe and in the U.K., investors can be forgiven for not knowing which firms are best placed for the new laws. But one analyst has given CNBC his top tips for those banks ready for change.
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You know that something is seriously wrong with your economy when you tell an audience of learned academics and students at an elite university that your country doesn’t need a bailout, and the room rings with the sound of laughter.
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Barclays has rejigged its investment banking structure to create a devolved geographic management hierarchy and combine its fixed-income and equities businesses into a single markets unit. The FT reports.
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Alistair Darling has made a forceful intervention in the plans by EADS to combine with BAE Systems, saying British interests were bound to suffer because the UK government would have no equity stake in the enlarged group. The FT reports.
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With the election just weeks away, this strategist has ideas about where a President Romney would take the dollar.
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Germany's export partners are ailing, and that's bad news for Europe's biggest economy.
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European shares were lower at the close of Thursday's choppy session, after the European Central Bank (ECB) announced interest rates would remain on hold.
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Struggling small businesses and a stagnant job market cannot wait for Washington policymakers to remedy what ails the U.S. economy, Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz told CNBC’s “Squawk on the Street” on Thursday.
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An intensification of Spain's recession poses the biggest risk to the country's 'investment grade' credit rating the head of Fitch's sovereign ratings team said on Thursday.
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Central banks hold steady and Spain manages a sale — it's time for your FX Fix.
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Speculation of a euro zone break up has prejudiced the bloc and created a negative political dynamic the Slovenian President told CNBC Thursday.
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Speculation of a euro zone break up has prejudiced the bloc and created a negative political dynamic the Slovenian President told CNBC Thursday.
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Sterling tumbled following minutes released by the Bank of England and disappointing retail sales, as the IMF warned the U.K. is at risk of "permanent damage."
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Microsoft unveiled its next generation console Xbox One on Tuesday, but it was its inclusion of live TV, rather than its gaming capabilities that set tongues wagging.
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Rallies have to end sometime for sure, but history suggests the current one doesn't have to end anytime soon.
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German business software company SAP will start to employ people with autism as software testers, programmers and data quality assurance specialists across the world.
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Teen use of Twitter has grown significantly, a new report shows, as Facebook loses market share. Here's why.
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What Warren Buffett once called "financial weapons of mass destruction" are firing again.
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Louisa Bojesen takes you through the European market close, where stocks are sharply lower.
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James Bullard, member of the Federal Reserve, tells CNBC why the US economy has taken longer than expected to recover, despite the huge amounts of stimulus.
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Jan Randolph, head of sovereign risk at IHS Global, tells CNBC that the financial system is representative of two drunks: the financial markets and the real economy.