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PARIS (Reuters) - The United States and Japan are leading a fragile developed world recovery that could be blown off course if Europe fails to contain the damage from its problem debtor states, the OECD said on Tuesday. It urged euro zone ...
May 22, 2012 at 15:31 | Source: Chicago Tribune
SEVILLE, Spain (Reuters) - Sleeping on inflatable mattresses with just a few boxes to hold their belongings, 32 families have occupied an empty new apartment block in Seville in southern Spain to put a roof over their heads after being thrown ...
May 28, 2012 at 15:10 | Source: Reuters UK
BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombian investment fund GrupoSura SIS.CN sees ample opportunity for corporate acquisitions from the global financial crisis and would consider snapping up the Latin American assets of Spain's second-largest bank BBVA if ...
May 28, 2012 at 15:24 | Source: Reuters
THERMAL, Calif. — To understand the conditions at the Duroville mobile-home park here, a half-hour drive from Palm Springs, Calif., just look at the windows. Dotting the walls are stretches of plywood, cardboard, blankets and even tinfoil.
May 27, 2012 at 21:02 | Source: New York Times
Gaia's Nemea estate: 'our products are niche' Since the beginning of the Greek crisis in October 2009, due largely to the recession in the domestic market, many wineries have been concentrating on exports. This strategy has paid off: Greek wine exports in ...
May 28, 2012 at 15:46 | Source: decanter.com
PETRACHIOAIA, Romania (Reuters) - Five years after joining the European Union, this town 13 miles outside of Romania's capital is still waiting for the jump in living standards its politicians said membership would bring. Four out of five people ...
May 25, 2012 at 11:46 | Source: Reuters UK
While much of the rest of the world continues to bite its nails worrying whether the end of the euro is nigh, the U.S., or at least the U.S. consumer, appears to be pretty much immune to the whole thing. Last Friday’s survey from the ...
May 28, 2012 at 10:09 | Source: Wall Street Journal
Everyone from Congress to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission wants in on the investigation into just how JPMorgan Chase (JPM) ended up losing at least $2 billion through some poorly conceived trades put in place by an inadequately supervised trader.
May 25, 2012 at 15:42 | Source: MSN Money
“Nepal descended into a new crisis on Sunday after rival political parties in the Himalayan nation failed to reach an agreement on a new constitution before the national legislature’s term expired at midnight,” Kiran Chapagain and Jim ...
May 28, 2012 at 05:37 | Source: New York Times
George Soros is often known as the man who broke the bank of England. He earned the title in 1992 when he made huge bets against the British pound as the U.K attempted to peg it to other European currencies through the Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM), an ...
May 26, 2012 at 19:44 | Source: StreetInsider.com