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EU’s Juncker says countries should get incentives to reform, warns on U.S. trade pact
July 15th, 2014
Euro zone countries should get financial incentives if they make ambitious economic reforms, the designated candidate to become the president of the European Commission said on Tuesday. Speaking to lawmakers in the European Parliament who will later vote on ...
Asian shares firm, count on Fed’s support
July 15th, 2014
Asian shares rose on Tuesday after Citigroup’s earnings and a fresh round of merger and acquisition activity in the U.S. healthcare industry lifted global share prices. Yet, with elevated stock prices on Wall Street and elsewhere relying substantially on ...
Asian shares nudge higher, oil nurses losses
July 14th, 2014
Asian shares rose on Monday as euro zone banking jitters faded, but investors remained cautious ahead of corporate earnings and a raft of global economic events, including testimony from the head of the Federal Reserve. MSCI’s broadest index of ...
Asian Stocks Slip With Won on Portugal as Gold Holds Gain
July 11th, 2014
Asia’s benchmark stock index headed for its first weekly loss since May 9, the cost of insuring bonds in the region climbed and the yen maintained gains with gold amid concern that Europe’s debt problems haven’t been resolved. South ...
Asian shares track Wall St. lower, yen gains
July 11th, 2014
Asian shares recouped early losses on Friday as sentiment in the region proved resilient to Portuguese bank concerns amid signs offshore funds were returning to emerging world assets. MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan recovered to be ...
ECB keeps banks on tight leash for health check results
July 10th, 2014
The European Central Bank wants to give banks just 48 hours to review the results of a balance sheet health check so it can guard against data leaks even though the banks would like more time. The ECB is ...
ECB watchdog says bank safety checks running according to plan
July 9th, 2014
Efforts by the European Central Bank to collect reams of lending data from leading euro zone banks are almost done, and plans to complete safety checks are running according to plan, the ECB’s top financial supervisor said on Wednesday. ...
U.S. Treasury Prices Rally on Weak Equities
July 9th, 2014
U.S. Treasury yields fell on Tuesday after the U.S. government’s auction of 3-year Treasury notes, the first of three debt auctions this week. The Treasury Department auctioned $27 billion in three-year notes at a high yield of 0.992 percent, ...
Top banks face wait for detail of new buffer to protect against bailouts
July 8th, 2014
According to a global banking regulator, details of a new buffer of bonds to shield taxpayers from having to rescue a big bank won’t become clear for at least a year or more. Lenders like Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank ...
German Industrial Output Drops
July 7th, 2014
German industrial production plunged in May at its sharpest pace in more than two years, suggesting that Europe’s largest economy struggled to expand in the spring after a robust first quarter. Industrial production dropped 1.8% on a seasonally adjusted ...
