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Gold Heads for Longest Losing Run This Year Before Fed Meeting
January 27th, 2015
Gold fell for a third day to the lowest level in a week before Federal Reserve policy makers gather and as European finance ministers agreed to work with the new Greek prime minister to keep the country in the ...
Greece debt repayment in full is ‘unrealistic’, says Syriza
January 27th, 2015
It is unrealistic to expect Greece to repay its huge debt in full, the chief economics spokesman for the victorious Syriza party has told the BBC. “Nobody believes that the Greek debt is sustainable,” Euclid Tsakalotos said. The far-left ...
IMF’s Lagarde rules out special treatment for Greece
January 26th, 2015
Greece must respect the euro zone’s rules and cannot demand special treatment for its debt in the wake of the victory of anti-austerity party Syriza, International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde said in a newspaper interview on Monday. “There are ...
IMF Launches New Data Platform
January 26th, 2015
The International Monetary Fund has launched a new platform to support its move to free data and to improve online global statistical dissemination. The new portal enables bulk data downloads and introduces dynamic visualization to showcase datasets that became ...
Greece election: Anti-austerity Syriza leader Tsipras vows to end ‘pain’
January 26th, 2015
Anti-austerity Syriza party leader Alexis Tsipras has vowed to end Greece’s “five years of humiliation and pain” after his general election win. Before cheering supporters, Mr Tsipras again pledged to renegotiate Greece’s massive international bailout. With nearly all of ...
Euro Slips With U.S. Futures on Greece as Treasuries Gain
January 26th, 2015
The euro slipped with U.S. equity-index futures, while Treasuries rallied as Greek voters handed victory to a party that’s pledged to renegotiate the terms of an international bailout. Asian stocks dropped with crude oil and industrial metals. The 19-nation ...
Statement by IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde on ECB Decisions
January 23rd, 2015
Ms. Christine Lagarde, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), made the following statement regarding today’s decisions of the European Central Bank (ECB): “We welcome the measures announced today that will strongly reinforce the ECB’s accommodative stance. The ...
ECB holds rates; markets on edge on Europe QE hopes
January 22nd, 2015
European Central Bank President Mario Draghi has announced the central bank to an expanded 60 billion euro ($70 billion) private and public bond-buying program until September 2016. The ECB kept its main interest rate unchanged on Thursday. It kept its ...
Revenge of Disaffected Europe Risks Crisis Sparked in Greece
January 22nd, 2015
They speak different languages, they come from different backgrounds, yet all have the same message of frustration that’s threatening to redraw the European political map over the next year. Starting with elections this Sunday in Greece and heading west ...
Investors cautiously optimistic ahead of ECB meeting
January 21st, 2015
US stocks recorded marginal gains on Tuesday after pairing big early losses as investors appeared uncertain about the prospects of the monetary stimulus program in Europe. The European Central Bank is expected to announce further measures of monetary expansion ...
