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Italy's crisis deepens on eurozone slump, bail-out doubts

October 31st, 2011
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Italy's borrowing costs have once again surged to danger levels amid growing doubts over the viability of Europe's bail-out machinery, dashing hopes that last week's summit deal would at last contain the crisis.

The two halves of the eurozone are locked in a broken marriage

October 30th, 2011
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One by one, the democracies of Southern Europe are being broken on the wheel of monetary union.

Europe's rescue euphoria threatened as Portugal enters 'Grecian vortex'

October 27th, 2011
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Monetary contraction in Portugal has intensified at an alarming pace and is mimicking the pattern seen in Greece before its economy spiralled out of control, raising concerns that the EU summit deal may soon washed over by fast-moving events.

Europe's grand gamble risks failure without ECB

October 26th, 2011
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Europe's "Grand Plan" to save monetary union is, in broad terms, a settled matter, even if the usual theatrics were still dragging on into the small hours of the Belgian night.

EU rescue plans hostage to raw politics

October 25th, 2011
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Europe's debt crisis has taken a deeply political turn as parliamentary battles rock Italy and Greece and once again cause simmering dissent in Germany, vastly complicating the search for a workable solution.

World power swings back to America

October 23rd, 2011
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The American phoenix is slowly rising again. Within five years or so, the US will be well on its way to self-sufficiency in fuel and energy. Manufacturing will have closed the labour gap with China in a clutch of key industries. The current account might even be in surplus.

S&P sees downgrade blitz in EMU recession, threatening crisis strategy

October 20th, 2011
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Standard & Poor's is to warn that a double-dip recession in Europe would imperil France's AAA rating and set off a string of downgrades across Southern Europe, undermining the EU's debt crisis strategy.

Franco-German deadlock over ECB's role in rescue fund

October 19th, 2011
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Talks between eurozone's two great powers are deadlocked over role of bail-out fund, and fears for markets grow if solution not reached by Sunday's summit.

Berlin experts fear euro break-up from bail-out escalation

October 17th, 2011
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Plans to increase the firepower of Europe's bail-out machinery with extra leverage threaten France's AAA rating and risk setting off a dangerous chain of events, a top German institute has warned.

Barroso proposes penalties for rogue bankers

October 16th, 2011
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Financiers accused of skulduggery could become subject to criminal sanctions under laws set to be proposed by the president of the European Commission.

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