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European equities closed higher on Wednesday, bouncing back heavy losses seen in the previous session, with stocks of exporting companies boosted by the falling euro (Exchange:EUR=). Euro zone stock indexes enjoyed a broad rally across major bourses and sectors-with the exception of Greece. Read More Tensions high as Greece makes WWII payback threats The German Read More

These are blatant signs of accelerated downdraft. So I predict the ‘Standing Committee’ would act sooner rather than later. Especially in the employment sector, I read that Chinese youth, particularly new college graduates, are now facing increasing difficult labor market. After all, their higher education sector has grown and mushroomed tremendously in the past decade Read More

By Shinichi Saoshiro TOKYO (Reuters) – Asian stocks skidded to a two-month low on Wednesday as nervous markets recoiled on worries about an earlier U.S. interest rate hike, a prospect that sent the dollar to a 12-year high against the euro. MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan <.MIAPJ0000PUS> was down 0.4 percent after Read More

By Leila Abboud PARIS (Reuters) – France’s low-cost telecoms group Iliad upgraded its entry-level broadband offer with the launch on Tuesday of a new, more powerful set-top box but did not cut mobile prices, comforting rivals who had feared the reigniting of a price war. After Iliad’s billionaire founder Xavier Niel unveiled the Freebox Mini Read More

European equities were lower on Monday amid speculation that Friday’s better-than-expected U.S. jobs report will lead the Federal Reserve to hike rates soon. The pan-European Euro Stoxx 600 index (^STOXX) was lower with all major bourses and sectors in negative territory at the start of the week. Stronger-than-expected U.S. nonfarm payrolls on Friday added to Read More

By Hideyuki Sano and Vidya Ranganathan TOKYO (Reuters) – Asian stocks buckled while the dollar held firm on Monday after strong U.S. jobs data fanned expectations that the U.S. Federal Reserve may raise interest rates sooner than previously thought. Stock markets across Asia, including Japan’s Nikkei <.N225>, Australia, Malaysia and Indonesia fell broadly, with MSCI’s Read More

European equities closed mixed on Friday, after fresh jobs data from the U.S. beat market expectations. The pan-European FTSEurofirst 300 (FTSE International: .FTEU3) ended slightly higher on the day and posted its fifth weekly gain in a row, according to Thomson Reuters. European stocks pared gains after the U.S. employment report, following a similar trend Read More

European equities ended higher on Thursday after the European Central Bank (ECB) set a start date for its bond-buying program and upped economic growth forecasts for the euro zone. The pan-European FTSEurofirst 300 (FTSE International: .FTEU3) finished around 0.8 percent higher at 1,569, with all major bourses and sectors posting solid gains, having touched a Read More