France's endeavours to prevent premature leaks of Sunday's first round presidential election results set the web-warped world of Twitter alight with jibes, jokes and cryptic messages.
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Gerard Minack of Morgan Stanley tells CNBC-TV18 that only ECB has the firepower to salvage EU. “The market is very skeptical about the IMF being able to play a key role,” he says.
Gold prices traded steady on Monday, after posting their sharpest weekly rise in more than a month, as the euro zone kicks off a week packed with meetings and decisions crucial to the solution to its debt crisis as well as the euro.
Can you unscramble an omelette? That, in essence, is what euro zone leaders and the global monetary policy elite will have to do if the euro zone is to be reshaped in any semblance of an orderly manner.
True that Papandreou's vote of confidence has hijacked the purpose of G-20. But thats not just it. France is pushing forward reforms that could affect China and global markets consequentially, Shereen Bhan reports from Cannes.
Free markets rather than protectionist policies are the solution to volatile food prices and the G20 should take steps to prioritise the provision of food for the poor, World Bank President Robert Zoellick said.