Berlusconi out of Parliament
ROME | By La Stampa via Presseurop | The Senate voted to strip Silvio Berlusconi of his senator’s seat on November 27 following his conviction for tax fraud in August, reports La Stampa.
ROME | By La Stampa via Presseurop | The Senate voted to strip Silvio Berlusconi of his senator’s seat on November 27 following his conviction for tax fraud in August, reports La Stampa.
MADRID | By Julia Pastor | Amidst their talks about economic policies and speed railway connections between Spain and France, both Mariano Rajoy and François Hollande met in Madrid on Wednesday. However, the visit bottomline is to seek for a common stance on banking supervision.
BEIJING | By Qin Jin via Caixin | A ‘buy local’ push sparked by security concerns is hurting foreign and helping domestic makers of electronic gear.
MADRID | By Francisco López | Everyday, more and more analysts warn about the risk of a “Japanization” of the Eurozone, and they even foresee the possibility to watch a long period of low growth in an environment of high indebtedness and reduction in prices. But, what exactly are those risks?
LONDON | By Terry Macalister at The Guardian via Presseurop | UK’s green plans dealt blow by shelving of Atlantic Array, which would have powered 1m homes and created thousands of jobs.
LONDON | By Jim McCormick at Barclays | Let’s explore how the start of Fed policy withdrawal will affect asset allocation. From Braclays, we do not see an early start to Fed tapering being especially disruptive for broader risk assets, and we’d expect US equity markets to be more vulnerable than most other risk assets.
BEIJING | By Pu Jun via Caixin | China and several Chinese firms have great interest in exploiting the natural resources of the North American country, but have run into a host of obstacles
LONDON | By Reuters | European shares lacked the momentum to extend a rally to multi-year highs on Tuesday, a mixed outlook for corporate earnings underlined by downbeat signals from Remy Cointreau and Hugo Boss.
KIEV | By Jędrzej Bielecki at Rzeczpospolita via Presseurop | Some 100,000 demonstrators, who gathered in the centre of Kiev on Sunday November 24, called upon President Viktor Yanukovych to change his mind and sign an association agreement with the EU.
TOKYO | By Leika Kihara and Stanley White at Reuters | European Central Bank Governing Council member Christian Noyer said on Monday that interest rates have to remain low for an extended period and might go even lower if needed as officials try to ensure the euro zone does not fall into deflation.