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Positive business activity data for the euro zone on Thursday will fail to stop a much larger fall over the long-term for the single currency.
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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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As Iran’s Currency Plunges, Investors Warned on Debasement Social cohesion and trust in a country’s currency are intrinsically linked, according to Dylan Grice from the strategy team at Societe Generale who is warning that history is ‘replete’ with great disorders in which social cohesion has been undermined by the debasement of a currency.
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Better late than never. After a string of delays, and having overcome a constitutional obstacle in Germany, the euro zone’s new rescue fund, the European Stability Mechanism, looks set to be finally inaugurated on Monday, the Financial Times reports.
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The Turkish prime minister announced on Wednesday night that Turkey had fired artillery at targets in Syria, in retaliation for Syrian mortar fire that fell in a Turkish border town and killed five Turkish civilians, the New York Times reports.
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Both the Bank of England and the European Central Bank are meeting tomorrow. Here's your trading plan.
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European markets ended mixed on Wednesday after Spain’s Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy denied reports that he would be seeking a bailout for Spain this weekend.
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Gloom lifts the dollar and Poland's central bank surprises — it's time for your FX Fix.
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François Hollande’s Socialist government is facing a new tax revolt – this time not from big business protesting against the president’s 75 per cent income tax band but in the form of a viral online campaign by small French entrepreneurs furious about a jump in capital gains taxes, the FT reports.
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