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NEW YORK — U.S. stocks fell on Monday after a plan to tax bank accounts in Cyprus to help pay for the country’s bailout stoked worries that it could threaten the stability of financial institutions in the euro zone. The move pushed the S&P 500 farther from its 2007 record ...
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Stocks slumped on Monday after a plan to fund a bank bailout in Cyprus using depositors’ cash threatened to rattle the euro zone.
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Brussels Beat: The Italian elections delivered a sharp rebuke to the economic policies of the euro-zone consensus. But the problem facing newly elected governments: They must operate within the institutions of the currency bloc.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Technology and commodity-related stocks led Wall Street lower on Thursday after Oracle's sharp miss on quarterly results and oil and metal prices fell on concern about growth in the euro zone.
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Britain has launched a legal challenge against a plan by 11 euro zone countries to set up a financial transaction tax, Chancellor George Osborne said on Friday.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany wants further reforms and savings in crisis-hit euro zone states, according to a report obtained by German magazine Spiegel in which Berlin evaluates progress made under strengthened EU budget rules. The rules have managed to spur in all euro zone countries a "general political mobilization towards structural reforms and greater competitiveness",...
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Germany's economy appears to be powering away from its struggling euro-zone neighbors as a pickup in global trade and favorable financing conditions boost optimism among manufacturing and construction companies.
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Brussels Beat: Here is a lesson one political scientist draws from the collapse of the Soviet Union: The euro-zone's crisis-management strategy is increasing the currency bloc's chances of disintegration.
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DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland's CRH said an upswing in the United States will drive growth this year and offset the slump in euro zone markets that pushed pretax profit down five percent in 2012.
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Euro-zone wage growth slowed sharply at the end of 2012 as unemployment rose, dashing hopes that falling inflation would boost real incomes and support growth this year.
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