Eurozone
25 May 2012
Some of Europe's biggest fund managers, including Amundi and Threadneedle, are dumping euro assets amid rising fears over a possible Greek exit from the single currency.
24 May 2012
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and other senior European Union (EU) officials last night called on Greece to shelve plans to quit the single currency and urged it to see out its austerity programme.
22 May 2012
David Cameron has reassured British savers worried by the a raft of downgrades of Spanish banks, describing British banks as well regulated and well capitalised.
21 May 2012
Hedge fund veteran Crispin Odey has given his take on the “depressing story” playing out in the eurozone, suggesting beleaguered Europe and the resilient US could move in very different directions.
18 May 2012
European equity markets have extended this week's losses at the open on Friday, after US stocks closed lower overnight, dragged down by the ongoing Greek crisis.
17 May 2012
Equity market sentiment is still too positive to represent a real buying signal for investors, who would be better served by holding back their cash for now, boutique RMG Wealth has said.
17 May 2012
The FTSE 100 has dropped more than 1% as the Spanish banking crisis intensified, with shares in bailed out Bankia shedding 25% today alone.
17 May 2012
David Cameron will urge eurozone leaders to "make up or break up" today as he fears the euro unravelling will further dent the British economy.
16 May 2012
Neptune’s Rob Burnett has outlined three potential positives for the eurozone as the region struggles through the latest phase of its debt crisis.
16 May 2012
Sterling has fallen against the dollar today after a dovish quarterly inflation report from the Bank of England cut growth forecasts and left the door open to further QE.
15 May 2012
"APRIL is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain. Winter kept us warm, covering Earth in forgetful snow, feeding A little life with dried tubers.”
15 May 2012
The eurozone reported zero growth in the first quarter, beating forecasts of a 0.2% contraction and narrowly escaping a technical recession.
14 May 2012
Vince Cable has voiced concerns there will be dire consequences for the UK’s economy if Greece were to exit the euro and debt contagion spread.
11 May 2012
The countries of southern Europe (and elsewhere) are beginning to behave like teenagers after their first all-night party.
11 May 2012
The International Nemesis fund (INF) announced recently that economists in its research department have discovered a cure for the financial crisis which has been stalking Heavily Indebted Developed Countries (HIDCs), which includes the US and a number of Western European countries, since the fall of Lehman in 2008.
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