Europe
Economics
The FTSE 100 opened lower this morning despite recent positive economic data, as rumours of a Fitch downgrade of Italy weighed on markets.
18 January 2012
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Europe
S&P's latest raft of downgrades were largely priced into markets, but more worrying is its forecast of a high chance of a deep recession in the region, said Schroders' European economist Azad Zangana.
17 January 2012
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Economics
The financial crisis engulfing the eurozone took a fresh twist on Friday after Standard & Poor's cut the credit rating on nine eurozone countries, including France's prized AAA, and Greece's debt talks collapsed without agreement.
14 January 2012
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Europe
Swiss National Bank chairman Philipp Hildebrand will receive a CHF900,000 (£615,000) payoff as he leaves the central bank following a scandal over his wife's currency trades.
12 January 2012
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Europe
Ten years on from the introduction of the euro, opinion is divided over whether the troubled single currency can survive another decade, especially in its present form.
11 January 2012
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UK
Prime Minister David Cameron has left open the door to Britain giving billions of pounds of new support to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in a move likely to infuriate eurosceptic MPs in his own Conservative party.
09 January 2012
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