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25 May 2012
The Euro Stoxx 50 could fall by almost 50% in the event of a disorderly Greek exit from the eurozone, analysts at Société Générale calculate.
25 May 2012
Paul Marriage, Cazenove's top performing smaller companies fund manager, has highlighted five UK-listed companies he expects to outperform in spite of the problems facing the UK economy.
25 May 2012
Two top commentators have given their views on how euro leaders should take steps to resolve the eurozone debt crisis, with both calling for Greece to stay in the euro.
25 May 2012
Citigroup's top economist Michael Saunders has forecast Greece will exit Europe's single currency on 1 January 2013, and its new currency will immediately depreciate by 60%.
25 May 2012
The head of the Vatican Bank, Ettore Gotti Tedeschi, has been sacked for neglecting duties, just a few years after he was embroiled in a money laundering scandal.
24 May 2012
Investors have pulled almost $900m out of one of the world's largest gold ETFs in a single day, the biggest one-day outflow since August 2011.
24 May 2012
The worse than expected decline in UK GDP announced today is likely to spur the Bank of England into injecting another £50bn into the economy next month, said Henderson's Simon Ward.
24 May 2012
The number of new funds being launched into the European market has dropped by half from the peak in 2008 as asset managers struggle through a tough business environment.
24 May 2012
Barclays has launched a platform which will allow wealth managers to trade stocks, ETFs and other assets themselves.
24 May 2012
Fidelity Worldwide Investment has confirmed John Clougherty is joining as head of UK retail, as Investment Week exclusively revealed yesterday.
24 May 2012
Scottish Widows Investment Partnership's (SWIP) head of UK rates Graeme Troy is set to leave the firm on 15 June.
24 May 2012
The decline in UK GDP growth in the first quarter of 2012 was today revealed to be worse than expected, after the Office for National Statistics reported fall of 0.3%.
24 May 2012
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg will say no rational person would want to see Greece exit the eurozone today, warning the UK will suffer if the country leaves 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.
24 May 2012
Markets across Europe set new lows for 2012 yesterday after countries were told by Brussels to prepare contingency plans for a Greek exit.
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