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EUROPE News, Aug 15, 2011

European, U.S. Stock-Index Futures Climb on Japan GDP; Asian Shares Rally
Bloomberg
Photographer: Hannelore Foerster/Bloomberg Most European stocks climbed, rebounding from three weeks of losses, after a report showed Japan's economy shrank less than forecast. US index futures and Asian shares also advanced. The benchmark Stoxx Europe ...
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European Stocks Seen Higher Tracking Gains in Asia
CNBC.com
European stocks were expected to open higher on Monday after a ban short-selling implemented by France, Italy, Spain and Belgium last Friday provided some relief for battered European bank stocks, but investor sentiment remains cautious as concerns ...
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Britain pushes hard choices for Europe's hard core
BBC News
George Osborne informally represents Europe - not a position the Chancellor of the Exchequer is used to - in signing up to a manifesto for reform alongside the finance ministers of Australia, Canada, Singapore and South Africa. ...
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BBC News

Rescue Deal Won't Be Too Easy This Time
Wall Street Journal
Mr. Sarkozy is on record as believing "Euro spells Europe, the euro is Europe. Europe has meant 60 years of peace on our continent. We'll by no means abandon that." Ms. Merkel, despite running a bluff last year at a dinner meeting of the 27 EU heads of ...
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Buddy Media Raises $54 Million To Fuel European Expansion
Mashable
CEO Michael Lazerow says that the funding will be used to fuel expansion in Europe and to double the size of the company's staff, AllThingsD reports. European expansion was accelerated last month when the company opened its European Headquarters in ...
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Oil above $85 as stock markets regain footing
Forbes
Crude has risen from below $76 last week after falling from $100 last month as investors try to anticipate how much economic growth may slow in the US and Europe in the second half. Oil was buoyed Monday by a jump in Asian stock markets. ...
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BBVA, Belgacom, Schroders, Shell, UBS, Unilever: European Equity Preview
Bloomberg
By Victoria Taylor - Mon Aug 15 01:56:35 GMT 2011 The following companies' shares may have unusual moves in European trading. Stock symbols are in parentheses. The Stoxx Europe 600 Index rose 3.7 percent to 237.49. The Stoxx 50 Index gained 3.8 percent ...
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RBC Capital Markets Names European CEO and COO
PR Newswire (press release)
15, 2011 /PRNewswire/ - RBC Capital Markets, the corporate and investment banking arm of Royal Bank of Canada (TSX: RY) (NYSE: RY) today announced two key executive appointments to itsEuropean leadership team. Harry Samuel, currently global co-head of ...
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Europe: Lacking a Long-Term Solution
Huffington Post
The European Financial Stability Fund is losing its credibility since even its increase to €440bn is not enough to cover future potential bailouts and would need to amount to at least €2tn. The crux of the problem, as I've iterated before, ...
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Kiwi dollar tipped to gain as equity markets recover
New Zealand Herald
Evidence of the shift back into risk assets was already seen in the US and Europe last week, where equities snapped their biggest streak of declines since the global financial crisis, with the Standard & Poor's 500 Index closing 0.5 per cent up on ...
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European Default Insurance Costs Sharply Lower
Wall Street Journal
LONDON (Dow Jones)--The cost of insuring European debt against default dropped sharply in early trade Monday after a strong session in Asia and positive signals from policy makers over the weekend. Around 0650 GMT, the SovX Western Europe index, ...
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Littlewoods Europe Announces a #FreebieFriday Giveaway
PR Newswire (press release)
Littlewoods Europe is starting a new #FreebieFriday draw via its Twitter page and the LittlewoodsEurope blog. Every Friday, from 12 th August to 2 nd December 2011, Littlewoods Europe will run a draw to win a #FreebieFriday prize. ...
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Gordhan : US, Europe woes could hit growth
Independent Online
The debt challenges in the US and parts of Europe will have the effect of “dampening growth and creating greater uncertainty” both in SA and around the world, Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan says. Addressing an Internal Auditors' Summit on Monday, ...
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Independent Online

Europe Factors-Shares set to extend recovery rally
Reuters
PARIS Aug 15 (Reuters) - Financial bookmakers expect to see the leading European benchmark indexes rising on Monday, extending the previous week's recovery rally and mirroring gains in Asia after data showed Japan's GDP shrank less than expected. ...
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Samsung and Apple battle in Europe at Dutch court
Channel News Asia
A Dusseldorf court granted a separate injunction halting the sale of the Galaxy Tab 10.1 acrossEurope, with the exception of the Netherlands. Lawyers representing the two companies declined to comment on reasons for a separate case in the Netherlands ...
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Dow plunges amid another global sell-off
Daily Helmsman
By Tom Petruno, Walter Hamilton & Edmund Sanders Hopes that world financial markets had bottomed were dashed Wednesday as worries over Europe's debt crisis infected France and investors focused on a fading outlook for the US. economy. ...
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Europe stands apart from US in backing Web privacy fights
Austin American-Statesman
But here, as elsewhere in Europe, an idea has taken hold —individuals should have a "right to be forgotten" on the Web. Spain's government is now championing this cause. It has ordered Google to stop indexing information about 90 citizens who filed ...
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June OFW remittances total $1.7B, a new monthly record
GMANews.TV
Remittances by overseas Filipino workers reached a new monthly record of $1.737 billion in June, unhampered by political tensions in the Middle East and North Africa, the "Saudization" program in Saudi Arabia, and the debt crisis in Europe and the ...
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Wincanton pulls out of mainland Europe
Stock Market Wire
StockMarketWire.com - Logistics company Wincanton today announced that it has signed a conditional agreement for the disposal of its remaining operations in mainland Europe to Rhenus AG via the disposal of Wincanton's Mainland Europe Holding Company. ...
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Europe's Largest Solar Farm to Reach 100K MWh Output by...
CleanTechnica
Austria's Activ Solar is managing the project. “Project of this scale means a radical change of solar energy development in Europe, while securing Ukraine's position as renewable energy provider,” CEO Kaveh Ertefai commented.
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CleanTechnica
Europe dragged into closer union
The National
Mr Tremonti repeated his call for common European bonds, saying they would be the best solution for the euro-zone debt crisis. Tony Gentile / Reuters Europe's debt crisis is pushing the 17 nations that share the euro currency into a closer economic ...
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The National
Daily news important as markets face volatile week
The Associated Press
1, mostly on worries about the US economy and debt crisis in Europe. Market pros likely will be hunting for bargains on Monday, especially in stocks that pay relatively high dividends since the Federal Reserve has said interest rates will stay low for ...
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RTS Stock Futures Gain as Europe Concern Eases: Russia Overnight
Bloomberg
By Belinda Cao - Sun Aug 14 20:00:00 GMT 2011 Russia's RTS stock-index futures rose, signaling stocks may extend gains in Moscow, as investor concern over Europe's banking sector eased following a rebound in lenders' shares, and an increase in US ...
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Western European Ecommerce Market Continues Strong Growth
eMarketer
The UK has long dominated Western Europe's ecommerce landscape, accounting for well over half of annual sales in the EU-5. But France, Germany, Italy and Spain are increasingly vital markets in their own right. eMarketer estimates that in 2013, ...
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Can the eurozone be saved?
BBC News
First, that unless and until Germany - Europe's largest economy with its rock-solid balance sheet - stands behind the debts of all eurozone members, the currency union will career from crisis to crisis, because investors and creditors are demanding ...
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Italy's austerity plan may spark strike
Boston Globe
AP / August 15, 2011 ROME - Italy's largest union, the CGIL, is threatening a general strike against an austerity package Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's government pushed through in response to demands by the European Central Bank to balance the ...
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Singapore sees U.S., Europe growth risks
MarketWatch
By Chun Han SINGAPORE (MarketWatch) -- Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said Sunday another global recession could arise amid current economic uncertainties in the US andEurope, which may worsen and drag down Asian powerhouses like China and ...
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Game Developers Conference Europe 2011 Opens Today at the Koelnmesse in ...
PR Newswire (press release)
15, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The 2011 Game Developers Conference™ Europe (GDC Europe) commences this morning at the Congress-Centrum Ost of the Koelnmesse in Cologne, Germany. Produced by UBM TechWeb Game Network, organizers of the leading Game Developers ...
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Modern Ghana Is Medieval Europe!
GhanaWeb
Indeed, such was the power and might of the church in medieval Europe. Religion ruled everything! The church ruled commerce and trade to the detriment of the masses. It ruled kings and Queens. It ruled the lives of the people to the extent that ...
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Cal Basketball In Europe: Allen Crabbe, Golden Bears Beat Solna Vikings
SB Nation
By Avinash Kunnath - Contributor Aug 14, 2011 - The California Golden Bears tipped off their preseason campaign with a convincing 89-71 victory over the Swedish club team Solna Vikings. Solna plays at the highest level of the Swedish division, ...
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SB Nation
AP-MI--SupCt-Experimental Medicine, 1st Ld-Writethru,0775
Chicago Tribune
Desperate for any relief, he chose stem-cell surgery in Europe, a procedure that may have improved his health but left him with a $51000 bill. Now, after years of litigation, the Michigan Supreme Court says Kevin Krohn's auto insurance company doesn't ...
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Divorce Tourists Go Abroad to Quickly Dissolve Their Italian Marriages
New York Times
But Italy's notoriously complicated divorce laws and the ease and reciprocity of divorce elsewhere inEurope have clearly created a niche industry. “It's true that we're seeing offices offering such services opening up,” said Diego Sabatinelli, ...
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Husker Women Down Danish All-Stars
WOWT
Moore, a 5-9 point guard from Covington, Wash., produced 6.5 points, 2.8 rebounds and 8.8 assists per game in Europe. Laudermill, a 5-9 guard from Riverside, Calif., produced identical scoring and rebounding numbers as Moore, while managing 2.0 assists ...
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Many Dutch opt to visit PH this summer | U.S. News Las Vegas
By admin
By Loui Galicia, ABS-CBN Europe News Bureau and U.S. News Agency / Asian. The Philippines is the favorite destination of a growing number of Dutch tourists this European summer. But who can blame them. Howling wind and strong rain since ...
U.S. News Las Vegas
I CARE - News - Internet Centre Anti Racism Europe
It focuses on the British National Party, the English Defence League and Stop Islamisation ofEurope/America, and exposes how their activities, associations, opinions and intentions reveal a racist and inhuman worldview, which must be ...
I CARE News English
Rome orders €45bn in cuts and taxes - News on the European Union
By Europe in News
EUROPE IN NEWS – Economy: Higher earners will pay more and a third of provinces will be axed following the ECB's request for Italy to increase efforts to balance its budget by 2013 – More | Europein News ...
Europe in News
Record levels of unemployment for Europe's youth — War in Context
By News Source
Record levels of unemployment for Europe's youth. by News Source on August 14, 2011. Stefan Steinberg writes: According to the latest figures from the German Statistical Office and Eurostat, youth unemployment across Europe has ...
War in Context
The Future of Europe: A Stronger Union or a Smaller One? (Time.com ...
By Yahoo! News: Business - European Economy
Time.com - The convulsions in the financial markets are symptoms of a larger problem: the state of the European Union is not good. Short URL: http://www.wallst.net/?p=227708. Posted by Yahoo!News: Business - European Economy . ...
Wall Street Financial News
Investigation into alleged LTTE financial frauds in Europe - ITN NEWS
By admin
The decision has been made following information received about the LTTE involvement in a number of financial frauds committed across Europe. The reports say that the countries concerned have decided to seek assistance from Sri Lanka if ...
Independent Television Network News
Asian Honey, Banned in Europe, Is Flooding U.S. ... - Food Safety News
By aschneider@foodsafetynews.com (Andrew Schneider)
Experts interviewed by Food Safety News say some of the largest and most long-established U.S. honey packers are knowingly buying mislabeled, transshipped or possibly altered honey so they can sell it cheaper than those companies who ...
Food Safety News
HOT PICS: Rihanna Jets Off To Europe! | Celebrity Gossip, News ...
By Shei
Rihanna was spotted out, at LAX Airport in Los Angeles, CA on Saturday afternoon (August 13). Donning a striped sweater, black trousers and sneakers, the.
Celebrity Gossip, News & Interviews...
Europe dragged into closer union – The National | Financial News
By forex - Google News
Europe dragged into closer union. The National But the plans for eurobonds face stiff opposition fromEurope's economic heavyweight Germany. Turmoil across global financial markets in recent days has given renewed impetus to the debate. ...
Financial News
Daily news important as markets face volatile week
By Associated Press
The report cheered Wall Street traders, who were hungry for good economic news after jitters about U.S. growth and the financial crisis in Europe caused a string of market routs. Stock futures surged when the data were released. ...
Maryland Daily Record
Europe – The sport campus (Denmark Football News) - FIFA World Cup ...
By Drader
2014 FIFA World Cup Qualifying Draw: Europe – The sport campus (Denmark Football News). 2014 FIFA World Cup Qualifying Draw: Europe – The sport campus. Group B promises to be a cracker as Italy, Denmark and Czech Republic fight it out ...
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Young Soccer Players Shoot For Stardom In Europe | KOSU Radio
By KOSU News
Young Soccer Players Shoot For Stardom In Europe. Filed by KOSU News in World News. August 14, 2011. South America has produced more than its share of soccer superstars. The soccer giant Real Madrid is banking on Leonel Angel Coira of ...
KOSU Radio
Digital deal unites GAME and Sony | Games industry news | MCV
The news follows a year of digital activity from game - it started offering PC downloads through 1200European stores this July, and previously forged a deal similar to its SCEE arrangement for Xbox Marketplace content. ...
MCV: Home Stream
N-Europe: News: NPD to Begin Tracking European Game Sales
The NPD Group is expanding later this year to begin analysing European and Asian video game sales. The NPD Group, who are currently one of the major US ...
n-europe.com/news.php?nid=16058
International Cricket Council - ICC Europe - News
News. ICC European U15 Division 1 Championship squads announced. Fri, Aug 5, 2011 8:26 PM. ICC European U15 Division 1 Championship squads announced ...
icc-cricket.yahoo.net/the-icc/icc.../news/newsdetails.php?...
Law firms band together to help riot victims - Europe News
News, views and gossip on leading law firms (including what they pay). The latest legal news and salary information and everything else the slightly bored ...
www.rollonfriday.com/TheNews/EuropeNews/.../Default.aspx
Official: Anzhi Makhachkala sign Yuri Zhirkov from Chelsea on four ...
As the Cameroon striker prepares to complete his switch to the Russian outfit, there is more than just a hefty financial package awaiting him at Europe's ...
www.goal.com/.../official-anzhi-makhachkala-sign-yuri-zhirk...


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