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  • 13/11/2012 | World

    EU, IMF clash over Greece revives debt crisis fears

    A public clash between Greece's international lenders over how Athens can bring its debts down to a sustainable level has reignited fears that the crisis could flare up anew.

  • 03/09/2012 | World

    Schaeuble: European Central Bank should only supervise big banks

    German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble rejected today a European Commission plan to give the European Central Bank sweeping powers to monitor all euro zone banks, saying it should instead focus only on systemically important institutions.

  • 06/09/2012 | World

    ECB cuts growth forecasts, see only gradual recovery

    The euro zone economy will probably contract more than previously expected this year, according to new European Central Bank staff forecasts which also raised the bank's outlook for inflation for 2012/2013.

  • 07/09/2012 | World

    Merkel defends ECB after bond-buying program announced

    Chancellor Angela Merkel defended the European Central Bank as independent and strong today following an uproar in Germany over the ECB's new bond-buying program for struggling euro zone members.

  • 15/06/2012 | World

    ECB's Draghi flags euro risks, but no inflation threat

    The euro zone economy faces serious risks and no inflation threat, European Central Bank President Mario Draghi said today in comments that heightened expectations the ECB could cut interest rates or take other policy action soon.

  • 22/06/2012 | World

    Euro's big four seek way out of crisis in Rome

    The leaders of Germany, France, Italy and Spain will try to find common ground in Rome today to restore confidence in the euro zone ahead of a full EU summit next week, which Italy's prime minister called a defining moment.

  • 02/07/2012 | World

    ECB tough message to Greece: focus on reforms

    Greece must not lose time trying to renegotiate its foreign bailout but focus on reforms instead, European Central Bank policymaker Joerg Asmussen said today, in a blow to Greek hopes of winning quick concessions from its lenders.

  • 03/04/2012 | World

    IMF Lagarde: ‘We should not delude ourselves into a false sense of security’

    IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde said today the world economy is still in recession and the recovery remains fragile as she warned that, although some progress has been made, the global economic situation is not ideal yet.

  • 10/04/2012 | World

    Global recession more severe now than when it started, IMF says

    Housing busts and recessions are more severe and last for at least five years when they follow a big run-up in household debt, according to a study released today by the International Monetary Fund. For that matter, the IMF has urged governments to consider “bold” interventions to reduce household debt levels and stimulate growth.

  • 14/06/2012 | World

    Merkel rejects 'miracle solutions' for Europe, warns of 'limited German resources'

    Chancellor Angela Merkel rebuffed pressure today for Germany, Europe's most powerful economy, to underwrite debt or guarantee bank deposits in the euro zone.

  • 08/03/2012 | World

    European Central Bank slashes euro zone's growth forecast

    The European Central Bank lowered its euro zone growth forecast after holding interest rates at record lows today, and said things would have been much worse without its dramatic action to pump a trillion euros into the banking system.

  • 30/03/2012 | World

    Euro zone leaders boost billionaire bailout fund

    Euro zone finance ministers agreed today on a temporary increase in their financial rescue capacity to prevent a new flare-up of Europe's sovereign debt crisis, but markets may judge it too small to be convincing.

  • 30/03/2012 | World

    IMF welcomes reinforcement on Euro zone firewall

    Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Christine Lagarde welcomed today an increase on the financial rescue capacity of Eurozone to prevent a new flare-up of Europe's sovereign debt crisis.

  • 06/02/2012 | World

    Greece lets deadline for bailout slip

    Greece let yet another deadline slip today for responding to painful terms for a new EU/IMF bailout as patience in Brussels wore thin over drawn-out negotiations among its feuding political leaders.

  • 29/02/2012 | World

    Banks gorge on 530 billion euros of ECB 3-year funds

    Banks grabbed 530 billion euros at the European Central Bank's second offering of cheap three-year funds today, fuelling hopes that more credit will flow to businesses and government borrowing costs will ease further.

  • 06/03/2012 | World

    Euro zone's slump in late 2011 points to recession

    A collapse in household spending, exports and manufacturing sucked the life out of the euro zone's economy in the final months of 2011, the EU said today, showing the scope of the downturn that looks set to become a fully fledged recession.

  • 27/01/2012 | World

    ECB's Draghi: liquidity measures avert euro zone crunch

    The European Central Bank's loans to banks have averted a major credit crunch but credit remains seriously impaired in parts of the euro area, ECB President Mario Draghi said at the World Economic Forum in Davos.

  • 30/01/2012 | World

    EU leaders agree rescue fund, 25 join fiscal pact

    European leaders agreed on a permanent rescue fund for the euro zone and 25 of the 27 EU states backed a German-inspired pact for stricter budget discipline, but they struggled to reconcile fiscal austerity with economic growth.

  • 01/02/2012 | World

    IMF says Greece must step up reform

    Debt-laden Greece and its international lenders must focus less on deficit reduction and more on reform because there are limits to what society can tolerate, a senior IMF official said today.

  • 24/01/2012 | World

    IMF slashes world growth outlook as euro zone weighs

    The euro zone debt crisis is escalating and dragging down the world economy, the International Monetary Fund said today, as it sharply cut its outlook for global growth and called for policies to restore confidence.

  • 25/01/2012 | World

    IMF: Public sector may be needed in Greek restructuring

    Greece's public sector creditors may need to participate in a restructuring of its debt if a haircut negotiated with private sector bondholders is not enough to make Athens' debt sustainable, IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde said.

  • 25/01/2012 | World

    Merkel deflects calls for bigger euro zone firewall

    German Chancellor Angela Merkel deflected pressure today to increase the euro zone's rescue fund, saying the key to reassuring markets was to restore lost trust in governments' policies.

  • 10/01/2012 | World

    EU's Rehn asks markets for patience, hopeful on Greece

    Greece is nearing an agreement with private-sector bond holders on a debt swap crucial to a second bailout package for Athens, the European Union's top economic official said today.

  • 11/01/2012 | World

    Fitch ratings: ECB must do more to prevent 'cataclysmic' euro collapse

    The European Central Bank should ramp up its buying of troubled euro zone debt to support Italy and prevent a "cataclysmic" collapse of the euro, David Riley, the head of sovereign ratings for Fitch, said today.

  • 23/01/2012 | World

    Lagarde urges EU to increase financial firewall against Greek crisis

    IMF chief Christine Lagarde urged today European governments to increase their financial firewall to prevent Greece's troubles from ensnaring bigger countries like Italy and Spain.

  • 09/12/2011 | World

    IMF's Lagarde praises euro deal,urges wider action

    IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde welcomed a move by European countries to more closely link fiscal policies and urged others to do their part to help ease strains linked to the euro area debt crisis.

  • 15/12/2011 | World

    IMF: 'World economic outlook is quite gloomy, no country is immune'

    The world economic outlook is "quite gloomy" and will require action by all countries, starting with those in Europe, to head off an escalating crisis that carries risks of a global depression, the head of the International Monetary Fund said today.

  • 09/01/2012 | World

    Merkel and IMF's Lagarde to meet tomorrow

    German Chancellor Angela Merkel and International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde will meet today at 8 pm local time (1900 GMT) in Berlin, Merkel's spokesman said today.

  • 14/11/2011 | World

    Merkel: 'If the euro falls, Europe falls'

    As technocrats leaders in Italy and Greece rush to form governments as they sought to limit the damage from the euro zone debt crisis – and the euro climbed on relief that a key Italian bond auction drew decent demand from investors – German chancellor Angela Merkel stepped up to defend Europe’s common currency.

  • 15/11/2011 | World

    Europe sustains modest growth

    The 17-nation euro zone economy grew a modest 0.2% in the third quarter from the second, the EU said today, lifted by France and Germany. Germany and France, the euro zone's two biggest economies, grew 0.5% and 0.4% respectively, the European Union's statistics office Eurostat said, helped by consumer spending and business investments, particularly in Germany.

  • 18/11/2011 | World

    ECB chief urges action on rescue fund

    European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi told euro zone governments to act fast to get their rescue fund up and running, expressing exasperation at their lack of progress in response to an escalating debt crisis.

  • 10/11/2011 | World

    Lagarde urges Italy to sort crisis out, China to help on world stability

    The head of the International Monetary Fund urged Italy today to act quickly fill its damaging political vacuum, and China said it was willing to help maintain global financial stability that was being threatened by the euro zone crisis.

  • 10/11/2011 | World

    Merkel puts euro split fears to rest

    German Chancellor Angela Merkel rejected today the idea that her government might favor a smaller euro zone, saying her only goal since the beginning of the debt crisis has been to stabilise the bloc in its current form.

  • 11/11/2011 | World

    Greece: Papademos, cabinet sworn in

    Technocrat Prime Minister Lucas Papademos took office to save Greece from bankruptcy, heading a coalition cabinet filled with many of the same politicians who led the nation into crisis and pushed the euro zone to the brink of collapse.

  • 01/11/2011 | World

    Lenders make available $200 billion amid Europe fears

    Development banks could provide up to $200 billion in financing to help poor nations deal with shockwaves caused by the European sovereign debt crisis, World Bank President Robert Zoellick said on today.

  • 09/11/2011 | World

    IMF’s Lagarde warns world economy risks ‘lost decade’

    The head of the International Monetary Fund warned today that Europe's debt crisis risked plunging the global economy into a "lost decade" and said it was up to rich nations to shoulder the burden of restoring growth and confidence.

  • 10/11/2011 | World

    Cameron: Italy ‘clear and present danger’ to euro zone

    Italy represents a clear and present danger to the euro zone, Prime Minister David Cameron said today.

  • 22/09/2011 | World

    Seven world leaders urge Europe to take action against debt crisis

    As ministers gathered in Washington for meetings of the Group of 20 and International Monetary Fund, an open letter to G20 president France from the leaders of Australia, Canada, Indonesia, Britain, Mexico, South Africa and South Korea stressed the threat of the euro zone crisis spreading worldwide.

  • 05/10/2011 | World

    ‘World on brink of deep economic crisis’, says Cameron

    The world is on the brink of another deep economic crisis but Britain must stick to its deficit-cutting plans, Prime Minister David Cameron said today, urging patience and calm while his coalition government tries to reshape a faltering economy.

  • 29/10/2011 | World

    Trichet says 'crisis not over', hard work ahead

    European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet said in a newspaper interview the euro zone sovereign debt crisis was not yet over and that it was too early for the all-clear signal

  • 11/08/2011 | World

    Sarkozy, Merkel to discuss eurozone and debt crisis in Paris on Tuesday

    French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel will discuss next Tuesday how to make the euro zone work more effectively amid persistent doubts in financial markets over Europe's ability to solve its sovereign debt crisis.

  • 12/08/2011 | World

    Financial mayhem: global markets conclude the year's darkest week

    A rocky week for exchange markets all over the world finally came to an end today. The US handling of its unprecedented debt crisis, the outlook of the worse recession since the 1930’s as President Barack Obama himself pointed out, and the deep recession that has hit Europe sent stocks in a wild ride.

  • 17/08/2011 | World

    Obama to unveil growth plan in speech

    US President Barack Obama next month will unveil a new jobs and economic growth plan and a detailed deficit-cutting package surpassing the mandate of the "super committee" in Congress, officials said today.


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