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EUROPE News, Aug 23, 2011

European Stocks Rise for Second Day
Bloomberg
By Peter Levring - Tue Aug 23 07:22:31 GMT 2011 European stocks rose for a second day as commodities climbed amid continuing speculation the Federal Reserve will take action to bolster the economy. US index futures and Asian shares gained. ...
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WORLD FOREX: Euro, Aussie Up On China PMI, Europe Data Eyed
Wall Street Journal
In European hours, investors face a string of indicators that could move the euro. French purchasing manager's index figures for August are due at 0700 GMT, for Germany at 0730 GMT and for the whole eurozone at 0800 GMT. The ZEW indicator of German ...
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Scientists find lager beer's missing link — in Patagonia
Los Angeles Times
But how did it get to Europe 600 years ago? Orange-colored galls on beech trees in the Patagonia region of Argentina have been found to harbor the yeast that makes lager beer possible, solving a mystery that has long puzzled scientists. ...
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Los Angeles Times
Merkel Never Holding Hands With Sarkozy Betrays European Leadership Crisis
Bloomberg
After no fewer than seven one-on-one meetings the past 18 months -- in addition to parleys at summits -- the leaders of the biggest European economies have yet to hit on an effective solution to the crisis stalking the euro, Fredrik Erixon, ...
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HP Pre 3 Cancelled in US, Will Sell for $75 In Europe
PC Magazine
By Sascha Segan The $99 HP TouchPad isn't the only amazing deal coming out of HP's fire sale on WebOS devices. The unlocked HP Pre 3 smartphone will go on sale "shortly" in both France and the UK for a mere $75 unlocked, according to HP. ...
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Stock Volatility in U.S., Europe Falls as Markets Rebound on Stimulus Talk
Bloomberg
Europe's volatility gauge also retreated. The VIX index, which measures Standard & Poor's 500 Index options prices, fell 1.4 percent to 42.44 as of 4:15 pm in New York. Europe's VStoxx Index (V2X), which measures prices for Euro Stoxx 50 Index ...
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European Stocks Close Higher, Boosted By Energy Sector
Wall Street Journal
By Michele Maatouk and Simon Kennedy European stocks closed higher Monday as investors picked up recently battered shares and energy stocks racked up gains on hopes of an end to the conflict in Libya. The Stoxx Europe 600 index closed up 0.8% at 224.90 ...
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European shares bounce, led by ENI on Libya hopes
Reuters
By Brian Gorman LONDON, Aug 22 (Reuters) - European shares bounced on Monday after a steep sell-off last week, with Italy's ENI among the main gainers on hopes that a new political regime in Libya will help it restore oil production activities to ...
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Charter Hall Retail Plans Europe Property Exit, Shift Focus to Australia
Bloomberg
The real estate investment trust, which today reported full-year net income of A$62.9 million ($65.4 million), will seek opportunities to sell its European and six remaining US assets by 2014, using funds from the sales to buy more properties in ...
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Asian stocks gain afte gyrating markets on Wall Street and Europe end with ...
CanadianBusiness.com
(AP Photo/Richard Drew) BANGKOK - Asian stocks mostly inched higher Tuesday after gyrating markets on Wall Street and Europe ended with modest gains. Oil prices rose above $85 per barrel as traders scaled back expectations that Libyan oil would be ...
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Lombardi Says Europe's Monetary Union `Under Attack'
Washington Post
22 (Bloomberg) -- Domenico Lombardi, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, talks about theEuropean sovereign debt crisis and challenges for Italy and the euro region's monetary union. Lombardi, speaking with Pimm Fox on Bloomberg Television's ...
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Fitch: US Money Market Funds Cut Exposure To Europe In July
Wall Street Journal
Fitch Ratings said US prime money-market funds lowered the maturity profiles of their CD exposures and reduced their exposure to European banks during July, a month during which concerns about sovereign debt in Europe and a sluggish global economy ...
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China flash PMI helps lift shares, eyes on Europe
Reuters Africa
By Alex Richardson SINGAPORE (Reuters) - European shares were set to follow Asian gains on Tuesday after a survey of Chinese factory output soothed fears of a hard landing for the world's No.2 economy, but gold hit a record on persistent concerns about ...
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Europe joins call for Gaddafi to stop fighting, step down
Xinhua
22 (Xinhua) -- European leaders on Monday scrambled to voice their support for the Libyan rebel forces and called on the embattled Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi to stop fighting so as to prevent further bloodsheds. Calling Gaddafi "irresponsible and ...
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Money markets: Dollar costs rise as Europe concerns persist
Reuters
By Emelia Sithole-Matarise LONDON (Reuters) - Dollar funding costs for euro zone banks rose on Monday, heading back toward their highest levels since late 2008, as US banks remained wary of lending to European counterparts in the face of a possible US ...
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Soft Data Spur Trims to Growth Forecasts
Wall Street Journal
Some now see the US economy growing at a 1% annual rate for the rest of 2011, a pace so slow that any shock—such as more market turmoil or Europe's debt crisis spinning out of control—could knock the economy into recession. As recently as last month, ...
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US Stock Futures Rally To Start The Week, As Europe Gives A Boost
Wall Street Journal
By Tomi Kilgore DOW JONES NEWSWIRES NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--US stock futures rallied Monday morning as gains in European markets and hopes for some encouraging words from the Federal Reserve later in the week helped spark a rebound. ...
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HP: More discounted TouchPads coming, $75 smartphones in Europe
CNN International
The fire sale has spread to Europe. The Pre3, which debuted in the UK and France less than a week ago, is now priced at $75, €59 or £49, the spokeswoman wrote in e-mails. It previously cost about $500 in Europe. The device will be unlocked, ...
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Vintage (BC) wine jars found off Albania
Boston Globe
The 30-yard-long wreck dates to the 1st century BC and its cargo is believed to have been the produce of southern Albanian vineyards en route to western Europeanmarkets, including France. A statement from the Florida-based RPM Nautical Foundation said ...
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Boston Globe
Beware: Europe's 'unitary patent' could mean unlimited software patents
The Guardian
Just as the US software industry is experiencing the long-anticipated all-out software patent wars, the European Union has a plan to follow the same course. When the Hargreaves report urged the UK to avoid software patents, the UK government had ...
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The Guardian
European stocks rise on Libyan uprising
Sydney Morning Herald
Stocks rose in Europe on Monday as investors eyed a quick return of Libyan oil to the market after an imminent defeat of Moamer Kadhafi, while Asian indices were mostly down. Fears of fresh recession, which recently sent global equities plunging, ...
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Hefty fuel surcharges keep Europe airfares high
The Seattle Times
Fuel surcharges to Europe stay very high — topping $400 to many cities — even though oil prices are below their peak, and that angers travel commentator Tom Parsons. By Tom Parsons No comments have been posted to this article. ...
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German finmin: euro bonds would make Europe debt union
Reuters
ROM, Germany Aug 22 (Reuters) - German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said on Monday introducing joint euro zone bonds under current conditions would turn Europe into a debt union. Schaeuble, who was speaking at a regional election campaign event ...
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Euro Zone Bank trouble isn't limited to Europe
Deseret News
By Kirby Brown, For the Deseret News Another week of volatile US and international equities markets resulted from a combination of weaker US economic news and heightened concerns over sovereign debt in the European Union. It seems every few weeks, ...
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Woody Allen Could Add Germany To His List Of Conquered European Locales
Cinema Blend
Woody Allen's magical mystery tour of Europe's finest destinations shows very little sign of slowing down. After a handful of features in London and its outskirts, the legendary New Yorker has made pitstops in Barcelona (Vicky Cristina Barcelona) and...
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Cinema Blend
Mini-MegaRamp to debut in Europe
ESPN
Mini-MegaRamp skateboarding and BMX will make their European debut at freestyle.ch, a freestyle sports event in Zurich, Switzerland, on Sept. 24-25. Although MegaRamp contests have been around in the US for years, this will be the first major MegaRamp ...
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Lindt confirms outlook as H1 beats poll
Reuters
S) stuck to its sales growth outlook after strong demand in the sluggish economies ofEurope and North America and price hikes helped it cope with high raw material costs in the first half. The group said it outperformed relatively flat volume growth ...
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Reuters
Europe Factors-Shares set to extend tentative rally
Reuters
PARIS, Aug 23 (Reuters) - Financial bookmakers expect to see the leading European benchmark indexes inch higher on Tuesday, adding to the previous day's tentative recovery rally and mirroring small gains on Wall Street and in Asia. ...
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NATO Officials Say Campaign Effective but Not Model
Wall Street Journal
The country is on Europe's doorstep. Fears of an uncontrolled exodus of Libyans to the Continent, coupled with Col. Gadhafi's history of sponsoring terrorism in the West, were among the motivations offered by leaders such as British Prime Minister ...
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Wall Street Journal
Europe's largest Jewish cemetery vandalized
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
BERLIN (JTA) – After vandals struck Europe's largest Jewish cemetery, Jewish leaders are asking area metal dealers to check for wrought-iron objects that might have been stolen from the cemetery. Vandals recently damaged 16 gravesites and stole 47 ...
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Where History Casts a Fearsome Shadow, Murmurings About the Far Right
New York Times
In the debate over the rise of the far right in Europe, Germany has remained, for obvious reasons related to its history, very much the exception. The kind of mainstream far-right parties so common in the rest of Europe are nowhere to be found here. ...
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New York Times
Crude Oil Fluctuates Before U.S. Stockpile Report; Brent Premium Widens
Bloomberg
Brent oil for October settlement was at $109 a barrel, up 64 cents, on the London-based ICE FuturesEurope exchange, after closing 0.2 percent lower yesterday. The European benchmark contract was at a premium of $23.63 to US West Texas Intermediate ...
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European News Wrap, August 22 – What happened today | VG247
By Johnny Cullen
European News Wrap, August 22 – What happened today. Because there's nothing better than an Imogen Heap image. In other news, hello, I'm back. Gamescom is done for another year, and while I was glad to be there (note: I'll take this ...
VG247
Vodafone claims 1st in Europe with Android operator billingGoMo News
By Tony Dennis
Rating: The Google Checkout bottleneck loosens Well, Vodafone has decided to claim via a developers' blog here that it has become the first (ever) operator in Europe to be able to implement the purchasing of apps via 'carrier billing' ...
GoMo News
Greek forest fire kills local firefighting chief - Europe news
Greek authorities say a local fire service chief has been killed battling a forest fire in southern Greece. The fire service said...
Mail.com: International
The Reading List: Aliens - News on the European Union
By Europe in News
EUROPE IN NEWS – Culture: Classic. 'War of the Worlds by H G Wells′, Penguin Classics £8.99. Variously interpreted as a commentary on evolutionary theory, British imperialism and Victorian fears and prejudices, War of the Worlds tells ...
Europe in News
Host Europe Group Acquires Hosting Provider Heart Internet | WHIR ...
Host Europe Group Acquires Hosting Provider Heart Internet | The Web Host Industry Review - Web Hosting News.
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Is Europe Facing A Credit Crunch Like 2008? - Money News Story ...
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- The sovereign debt problems in Europe have roiled financial markets around the world. ... Monday, August 22, 2011.
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EU leaders urge Gaddafi to hand over power — RT
By RT
France, Germany and Italy have renewed their calls for Muammar Gaddafi to officially step down in the wake of the rebel storming of Tripoli. Paris says it will host a contact group meeting to discuss a road-map for a post-Gaddafi Libya.
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Inside Europe: Last Bulwark of Euro Could Be Tottering
By admin
BERLIN -- It is not hard to come up with reasons for the euro zones exasperating inability to get a grip on its debt crisis.
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USAGOLD News and Views » Blog Archive » Europe struggles with path ...
By News
Europe struggles with path to fiscal union. Aug 22nd, 2011 09:46 by News. August 21 (Financial Times) — During a closed-door summit in June, José Manuel Barroso, European Commission president, made a 14-slide presentation to Europe's ...
USAGOLD News and Views
French Business Man Settles Burqa Fines in Belgium : Euro-Islam ...
By Euro-Islam
News Agencies – August 19, 2011. In a civil protest against Muslim face veil ban in France and Belgium, French businessman Rachid Nekkaz has set up a fund to pay fines for Muslim women who choose to don niqab in public. “I'm in favor of a law to convict a husband who forces a women to wear the niqab and who forces her to stay at home,” told reporters outside the ... ANNOUNCEMENTS. Call for proposals for papers and discussants: Making European Muslims (Oct. 28 to 29, 2011) ...
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PANDA UPDATE FOR EUROPE; WINNERS GAIN LOSERS SHARE IN VISIBILITY ...
By Hemant Patel
Google's Panda update has been rolled out all over the world, being just restricted to its language count which has been just three for now. There were a few new stats which revealed the winner and lo.
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China flash PMI helps lift shares, eyes on Europe – Reuters | Wall ...
By Google Inc.
WORLD FOREX: Euro, Aussie Up On China PMI, Europe Data EyedNASDAQ. China manufacturing contracts in August: HSBCAFP San Francisco Chronicle -Bloomberg -Reuters Africa all 173 newsarticles ». Short URL: http://www.wallst.net/?p=237353 ...
Wall Street Financial News
Combat Arms Europe News
New news from Nexon about their On-Line FPS called Combat Arms. New modes and a new area so lots for players to sink their teeth into! The New Blood...
www.iama-network.com/Combat-Arms-Europe-News/
Europe: Lord Stirling's Europe News Blog
Lord Stirling's Europe News Blog. Holy Shroud of Turin. Powerful prayer to St. Michael the Archangel - video ~ link. AVA MARIA - by Helene Fischer - video ~ ...
europebusines.blogspot.com/.../lord-stirlings-europe-news-blo...
US, European Stocks Remain Volatile - ABC News
Stocks in Europe and the U.S. remained volatile Monday as investors gyrated between fears of a double-dip recession and hopes that the ...
abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=14352361
Week In The News: Europe In Crisis, Syrians Revolt, Obama Hits The ...
Markets dive again, Europe wobbles, Rick Perry makes his debut. Our news roundtable goes behind the headlines. Republican presidential candidate, Texas Gov. ...
onpoint.wbur.org/2011/08/19/week-in-the-news-161
Wall Street, banks boost Europe stocks - Yahoo! News
Read 'Wall Street, banks boost Europe stocks' on Yahoo! News. Stocks in Europe ended sharply higher Friday after positive retail sales data out of the U.S. ...
news.yahoo.com/wall-street-banks-boost-europe-stocks-12553...
Italy becomes sick man of European club football | Europe News
Having once been the major power in European and world club football, Italy is rapidly becoming the sick man of Europe in footballing terms.
www.europe-news.net/.../italy-becomes-sick-man-of-european...

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