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EUROPE News, Aug 14, 2011


Short-selling ban in Europe won't work. Here's why.
Christian Science Monitor
Critics blast short-selling ban in Europe as 'political smoke screen.' A general view of the Madrid bourse Aug. 12, 2011. A piecemeal ban on short- selling of financial stocks highlighted flaws in euro zone policy and investors said relief for bank ...
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Christian Science Monitor
Schäuble calls for European solidarity to tackle debt crisis
Deutsche Welle
German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble has said the eurozone's growing debt problems can only be solved "step by step" and has urged increased European political cooperation to carry out reforms. In an interview on Saturday, Germany's Finance ...
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Northern Europe should make a break for a new mark
The Independent
But there is a safer way forward, writes Rodney Leach Markets have grown intolerant of Europeanleaders' half-measures and non-solutions. With time running out, the choice for those in control seems to have become black or white – full fiscal union or ...
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Eurozone's problems present UK with great risks
Telegraph.co.uk
The immediate debt problem is not in the United States of America but in the disunited states of Europe, writes Satyajit Das. Unlike the US, many European countries and some European banks are having trouble raising money from normal commercial sources ...
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Telegraph.co.uk
World Bank chief warns economy in 'more dangerous' phase
Sacramento Bee
By Sid Astbury SYDNEY, Australia — The global economy was entering a "new and more dangerous" phase because of the debt crisis in Europe, World Bank chief Robert Zoellick warned Saturday. Zoellick, speaking in an interview with The Australian ...
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Americans in Europe: Dempsey earns start for Fulham
SportingNews.com
The 2011-12 English Premier League season began Saturday, and US midfielder Clint Dempsey was there for the opening kickoff. After joining Fulham in '07, the Texan had to convince each of his first four coaches at the London club that he deserved a ...
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Amid Rise of Multiculturalism, Dutch Confront Their Questions of Identity
New York Times
The killings could weaken nationalist fervor in Europe, as the Oklahoma City bombing cooled off militias in the US in the late 1990s. The sometimes violent Europeanbacklash against Islam and its challenge to national values can be said to have started...
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New York Times
US Stock Market: Dow's Wild Ride May Continue, on Societe Generale Woes
International Business Times
For the week, the Dow was down just 1.5 percent, but it occurred after the Dow had already plummeted about 1200 points or 11 percent on concern about Europe's debt-plagued nations, and on the protracted, partisan fight in the US between the Democratic ...
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International Business Times
The Patent World War
TechNewsWorld
By Paul Hartsock Apple's battling Android tablets in Europe, winning an injunction in a German court that bars Samsung from importing its Galaxy tab into most of the continent. The timing couldn't be worse for Samsung -- even if it manages to change ...
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Germany, France Tend To A Euro In Crisis
NPR
This time, much of the trouble has originated in Europe. Governments there are dealing with their own debt crisis, and it's worrisome enough to call into question the future of the euro currency. Here to review the developments in Europe is NPR's Tom ...
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Silicon Valley remains an oasis of optimism amid the global storm
San Jose Mercury News
By Bruce Newman In the global economy, when Europe sneezes, the United States catches a cold. Ewww. No one knows why Europe can't just cover its mouth -- and its sovereign debt. The rest of the world should consider dragging its sorry assets to Silicon ...
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European stock markets finish week on a high
MyFinances.co.uk
The markets in Europe opened higher when they resumed this morning after a further mixed trading day for Asian stocks and shares. The FTSE 100 regained ground late this morning after initially falling by around five per cent. Asian markets also gained ...
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Europe market 'in the eye of a storm'
ABC Online
Citi's Steven Mansell gives an update on the effect the Europe debt crisis has had on the share market. ALAN KOHLER, PRESENTER: About the only certainty in these most uncertain times is that Europe's debt crisis poses the biggest immediate threat to ...
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Europe a greater worry than US as debt-ridden Eurozone can't carry on with the ...
Economic Times
The epicentre of systemic risk globally remains European banks. Investors should watch theEuropean equivalent of the so-called TED spread. This is the spread between three-month euro Libor and the three-month euro government bond yield, ...
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Treasure strikes gold in USA
SkySports
The result turned out to be a tremendous result for Europe as the Irish Derby winner got the better of France's Ziyarid after the pair battled for superiority down the home straight. The winner got a very strong ride from Colm O'Donoghue and he ...
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SkySports
Syria's bloody crackdown is fueled by oil revenue from Europe.
South Asia Mail
Governments across the world have condemned these atrocities, but key European leaders could cut off the cash flow that finances this bloodbath. Germany, France and Italy are the three main importers of Syrian oil. If they move to impose immediate EU ...
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Travel Q&A: Solutions still far off for credit card woes in Europe
San Jose Mercury News
By Ann Tatko-Peterson QI am hearing lots of conflicting stories about the need to have a chip-embedded credit card when traveling in Europe, that American cards that merchants "swipe" in a machine are no longer accepted. In October, we will spend 10 ...
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Metering Europe Looks at How Utilities Can Meet Smart Meter Targets by 2020
PR.com (press release)
Amsterdam, Netherlands, August 14, 2011 --(PR.com)-- What needs to happen for Europe to meet its smart metering targets? The continent's utility industry will take urgent stock in October during the annual Metering Billing/CRM Europe conference and ...
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European Culture bodies to work together in Lagos
NEXT
By Bunmi Ajiboye The British Council, Goethe Institut and the Alliance Francaise came together in Lagos on Thursday August 11 to form a cluster of the European Union National Institutes for Culture (EUNIC) in Nigeria. There to sign the agreement on ...
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Justin's European Journey: Journal Entry #4
Kent State University Athletics
Kent State rising senior Justin Manns (Winston-Salem, NC) has completed four days of his seven-day, five-game tour in Europe for a Global Sports Select All Star team that runs Aug 10-16. Justin continues to share with you his experiences by providing a ...
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Kent State University Athletics
GettyImages Giuseppe Rossi has attracted interest from several clubs around ...
ESPN
Rossi had attracted interest from Barcelona and Juventus earlier this summer, but Villarreal have been reluctant to sell. Even so, Napoli have made public their interest in the Italy striker and Mazzarri feels he would be a major boost for the ...
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ESPN
Economy Watch: It's All About Europe, Stupid
Seeking Alpha
It was mainly driven by fears of a European sovereign debt crisis that could potentially lead to a massive bank failure and a collapse of the eurozone economy. With Europe already weak, a financial crash would likely bring the economy to its knees, ...
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Wall Street may be facing world of 'new normal'
The News-Press
"Europe was looking more and more like 2008 did to us," he said. "There is worry about a double-dip recession. People feel like there is a lack of the government's ability to solve the problems. And we have way too much national debt. ...
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What can be done to end the financial panic
Bangor Daily News
By Neil Irwin, The Washington Post With the US economy at risk of a dip back into recession, much of Europe experiencing a debt crisis and global financial markets roiled, the world's governments and central banks have fewer tools than usual to address ...
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German minister backs short-selling ban across G7
AFP
BERLIN — Germany's Economy Minister Philipp Roesler said he supports a short-selling ban across the G7, going further than his country's finance minister, who has backed such a ban only in Europe. Roesler said "it is good and proper that other ...
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AFP
European fiscal union: be afraid
Daily Mail (blog)
EUROPE'S move towards fiscal union, I suggest in my column in today's edition of The Mail on Sunday, poses some real menaces to Britain. Not primarily the danger that we will be 'asked' to contribute to huge bailout funds, although that threat is ...
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City man served across Europe in World War II
Statesville Record & Landmark
In July 1945, with the war in Europe over, Holt received a call from a colonel. “He asked if I wanted to go home. I said I did. He asked me how long it would take me to get ready. I said about three days. He said the truck would be here in an hour,” he ...
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Tensions Over Illegal Immigrants In Greece Rises
NPR
12:00 pm ET The financial turmoil in Europe is creating social as well as economic problems in a number of countries, especially in Greece, which is suffering its worst recession in decades. Greece is the unwilling host to about 80 percent of Europe's ...
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Europe can do without Britain: experts
Press TV
European experts believe the EU should not wait for Britain to leave the bloc; rather they should kick the UK out, as it has done more damage to Europe than Greece. Britain's performance vis-à-vis the European Union (EU) as far as issues like the Iraq...
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Press TV
Aust shares expected to open 1% higher
Ninemsn
The Australian stockmarket is expected to open about one per cent higher on Monday, in line with gains made in Europe and the United States. US markets ended higher on Friday as trade calmed at the end of one of the most turbulent weeks on record. ...
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Are We About To Double-Dip?
Patch.com
It seems that all you hear about lately are downgrades, precarious stock market dives, persistently high unemployment, and debt crises in Europe. In fact, a lot of people are starting to say that the news about the economy sounds an awful lot like it ...
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No time to panic — this is not 2008 again
Chicago Tribune
And, a huge debt overhang — this time sovereign debt in Europe, not private mortgages — threatens the viability of critical financial institutions. European banks hold huge amounts of Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Greek and other European government ...
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Selloffs a repeat cycle in era of uncertainty: experts
CTV.ca
Their comments came after a week of turmoil and frantic selling and buying on global stock markets over fears of a possible double-dip recession in the United States and mounting debt problems in Europe. Canada's main market, the Toronto Stock Exchange ...
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CTV.ca
The Age of Outrage
New York Times
When David Cameron rushes back from Tuscany (aka Chiantishire) to riot-ravaged London, and Nicolas Sarkozy hustles home from the Riviera to a Paris debt crisis, and the summer vacation void vanishes in Europe (once so long the Germans coined a word for ...
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Burning questions remain after a week of sweating it out with the stock market
Chicago Tribune
Meanwhile, in Europe, as rumors fly about banks in meltdown mode, people worry that eurozone leaders don't have it in them to solve the messes lingering from the financial crisis and years of indulging in too much debt. "There is a crisis of competency ...
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A 'Christian' Europe Without Christianity
By The Huffington Post News Team
By David GibsonReligion News Service (RNS) Does European Christendom need Christianity to survive?
Europe on Huffington Post
N-Europe: News: Downloadable Solatorobo Quests Announced
Namco Bandai's Solatorobo: Red the Hunter, which we reviewed last month, was surprisingly localised in Europe by Nintendo and now they are also treating gamers to extra downloadable quests to expand the game's lifespan. ...
N-Europe
Italy to slash political costs in new austerity - Europe news
The Italian government is vowing that a new austerity package will slash Italy's huge bureaucratic and political costs, with thousands of...
Mail.com: Breaking News
Europe - FIFA World Cup Soccer News
By Drader
2014 FIFA World Cup Qualifying Draw: Europe – The sport campus (Football News). Portugal and Russia will fight for honors in Group F while Group E is fairly open as Norway, Slovenia and Switzerland try to fend off Albania, ...
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Berlusconi: Italy's measures praised in Europe (AP) | Stock Market ...
By Editor - Business News
ROME – Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi says his government's new austerity package has won praise by European leaders including German.
Rocket News
Far-right raises fears amid Greek crisis - The European Union Times
By The European Union Times
Greece's fears are shared across Europe. Last week, EU counterterror officials held an emergency meeting in Brussels on ways to combat right-wing violence and rising Islamophobia, warning of a “major risk” of Norway copycats. ...
The European Union Times - World...
Europe's Short Sales Ban: Not Very Useful Actually - News on Feeds
Europe's Short Sales Ban: Not Very Useful Actually. published about 12 hours ago. VariousEuropean market regulators banned the short sales of financial companies last week. The shares of those European financial companies rose: so does ...
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I CARE - News - Internet Centre Anti Racism Europe
Internet Centre Anti Racism Europe.
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Europe: Battery swapping and electric cars « 4EVRiders.org ...
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Europe crisis : George Soros blames Germany | www.commodityonline ...
Blaming Germany for escalation of Europe's debt crisis, US investment Guru George Soros said its indecision intensified Greek crisis and led to the contagion that has transformed it into an existential crisis for Europe.
Commodity Online News
Italy to slash political jobs under new austerity package ...
Berlusconi also said the $64.8 billion package won praise by European leaders including German Chancellor Angela Merkel and by the European Central Bank. "I have received great appreciation," Berlusconi told the ANSA news agency, ...
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Tennis Europe - News - Tennis Europe News: August
The official site of the European Tennis Federation, which is comprised of 49 member nations and administers over 1000 tennis events annually including the ...
www.tenniseurope.org/news_item.aspx?id=51914
Europe News
Europe News. Europe Curbs Short-Selling as Credit Markets Swoon. Reuters | August 12, 2011 | 01:41 AM EDT. A ban on short-selling financial stocks in four ...
m.eu.cnbc.com/europe/top_stories/44116061
Georgian TV Beams Russian Language News to Russia | Europe | English
Russia and Georgia have had no diplomatic ties since their war several years ago . Georgians currently are reaching out, however, to their much larger ...
www.voanews.com/.../Georgian-TV-Beams-Russian-Language...
Europe short-selling ban reveals divisions - Yahoo! News
Read 'Europe short-selling ban reveals divisions' on Yahoo! News. PARIS/MILAN ( Reuters) - A piecemeal ban on short-selling of financial stocks in Europe ...
news.yahoo.com/europe-curbs-short-selling-credit-markets-sw...

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