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LONDON (Reuters) – The risk that deteriorating government finances could push economies into full-fledged debt crises tops a list of threats facing the world in 2010, according to a report by the World Economic Forum.
Major world economies have respo...
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – US President Barack Obama yesterday proposed Wall Street banks pay up to $117 billion to reimburse taxpayers for the financial bailout, as he slammed bankers for their "massive profits and obscene bonuses".
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Financial regulators, lulled into inaction by soaring bank and Wall Street profits, failed to protect Americans from the 2008 financial crisis, a senior US official told an investigative panel yesterday.
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FRANKFURT (Reuters) – The European Central Bank kept interest rates unchanged at a record low of 1.0 percent yesterday and its chief said the idea of a country such as Greece leaving the euro zone was "absurd".
All 80 economists in a recent Reuters p...
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A jury trial in a fraud action by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) against Bermuda-based financial services group Lines Overseas Management could take place as early as next month in Manhattan.
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The earthquake that struck Haiti will trigger the country's full $8 million earthquake cover with the Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility (CCRIF), according to the organisation.
Haiti bought both quake and windstorm cover from CCRIF, paying...
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INTERVIEW-Banks to show regulators trade credit less risky
+ Banks fear new capital rules discourage trade finance
+ Trade finance registry to show low risk of instruments
+ Trade finance costs steadied, some exporters vulnerable
GENEVA, Jan 14 (Reut...
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TORONTO (Reuters) - Toronto's main stock index fell yesterday, hurt by weakening oil prices and by gold producers that failed to find support even though gold prices turned higher.
Miners Goldcorp and Barrick Gold were among some of the index's top o...
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LONDON (Reuters) – Britons defied the recession to splash out on laptops, TVs, food mixers and robotic hamsters at Christmas, but retailers fear cutbacks this year as real incomes are trimmed by taxes rise and unemployment.
Analysts rushed to upgrade...
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LONDON - Strength in miners helped Britain's top share index to a 0.5 percent rise by close after soaring output figures from Rio Tinto boosted the sector, but retailers fell on weak trading updates.
The FTSE 100 ended 24.72 points higher at 5,498.2 ...
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