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Aug 24, 2011

EUROPE News, Aug 24, 2011


European Stock Futures Advance; Stoxx 600 Index Might Climb for Third Day
Bloomberg
European stocks fluctuated between gains and losses as disappointing earnings from Heineken NV (HEIA) offset ongoing speculation that the Federal Reserve will act to bolster the economy. Asian shares and US index futures fell. ...
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European Factors-Shares set to rise on Fed easing hopes
Reuters
LONDON, Aug 24 (Reuters) - European shares were set to rise on Wednesday, extending a rally into a third day, as speculation grew that the US Federal Reserve would announce another round of quantitative easing to boost a flagging economy. ...
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Europe's Markets Start Higher
Wall Street Journal
By ANDREA TRYPHONIDES LONDON—European stocks opened higher Wednesday, after a strong close on Wall Street on hopes the Federal Reserve may announce additional measures to help boost the US economy, while a widely expected credit-rating downgrade for ...
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DNA study deals blow to theory of European origins
BBC News
By Paul Rincon Science editor, BBC News website A new study deals a blow to the idea that most European men are descended from farmers who migrated from the Near East 5000-10000 years ago. The findings challenge previous research showing that the ...
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BBC News
WSJ: European Stocks End Higher
Wall Street Journal
European stocks ended a choppy session in the black Tuesday, as investors grappled with a mixed bag of economic data. Expectations of another round of quantitative easing in the US also influenced markets. The euro gained ground against the dollar, ...
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European Stocks Seen Rising On Hopes Of Fed Stimulus
RTT News
(RTTNews) - European stocks are seen opening higher on Wednesday, extending yesterday's modest gains, as investors pin their hopes on further stimulus from Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke, who will deliver a closely-watched speech on Friday at an ...
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East European Swiss-Franc Loan Defaults May Fan Euro-Area Crisis, UBS Says
Bloomberg
By Agnes Lovasz - Wed Aug 24 05:00:00 GMT 2011 The euro-region debt crisis may deepen as eastern European borrowers who took loans in a strengthening Swiss franc struggle to repay western European banks, UBS Wealth Management said. ...
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Serbia Welcomes Merkel on Threshold of EU Bid
Voice of America
As Serbia moves forward, it faces many more hurdles and its people are already growing weary of the long, bumpy road to Europe. A recent government poll found the number of Serbs supporting EU candidacy has dropped significantly, even while support for ...
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European defensives lead second-day share bounce
Reuters
By Simon Jessop LONDON, Aug 23 (Reuters) - European shares extended their low-volume bounce into a second day, led by demand for defensive stocks and investor hopes for a further easing of US monetary policy, although tepid economic data did little to ...
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C. Kim, V. Hurst, O'Toole make U.S. Solheim team
CBSSports.com
Christina Kim earned the 10th and final automatic spot on the US Solheim Cup team Sunday and captain Rosie Jones added youngsters Vicky Hurst and Ryann O'Toole to the squad that will faceEurope in Ireland late next month. Going into this weekend's ...
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European Slowdown Remains Likely, QE3 Prospects Increase
FXstreet.com
by Jeremy Cook - World First UK Ltd | View company's profile Markets seemed to shrug off mixed data from Europe and the United States yesterday the largest earthquake on the eastern seaboard of the United States in the past hundred years to push ...
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European banks in focus as US access shortens again
Reuters
By Matthew Attwood LONDON, Aug 23 (IFR) - European banks' access to US money market funds deteriorated further in recent weeks, a Fitch research note showed this week. However, despite evidence of a reduction in the maturity profile of US market funds' ...
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Heineken N.V. reports solid operating performance for the first half 2011
Reuters (press release)
Volume of the Heineken® brand in the premium segment increased 4.7%, led by growth in Asia Pacific and Western Europe; Net profit (beia) of €694 million (+5.7% organic growth), reflecting higher EBIT (beia) and lower interest expenses, partly offset by ...
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Europe's a Mess, So Why Is the Euro So Strong?
Business Insider
The millions of American tourists traveling to Europe this summer face a rude awakening as soon as they clear customs: The dollar doesn't go very far against the euro. Recently, it's been trading in a range near $1.44 to the euro. ...
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Business Insider
European stocks rise on solid data
Sydney Morning Herald
Europe's main stock markets rose on better-than-expected eurozone and Chinese economic data, although gains were capped by weak German sentiment and lingering fears of a return to recession. London's FTSE 100 index of leading shares rose 0.67 per cent ...
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Moody's: don't see contagion from Europe spreading to Japan
Reuters
TOKYO (Reuters) - Europe's sovereign debt crisis is unlikely to spread to Japan's government debt market due to its current account surplus and large holdings of assets overseas, Moody's Investors Service said on Wednesday. Future ratings actions on ...
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EUROPE: Friedel shines in Spurs debut
ESPN (blog)
Rangers, already ousted from the UEFA Champions League, must win to avoid Europeanelimination, but their prospects aren't bleak. A 1-0 win in Thursday's second leg at Ibrox would send them through to the group stage on away goals. ...
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Fears mount Khadafy could use WMDs against Europe, Libya
New York Daily News
Pentagon and British intel officials fear Moammar Khadafy could launch chemical weapons and missile attacks on his own people - and Europe - in a last-ditch act of vengeance. "They are a vicious regime. They are in their death throes. ...
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New York Daily News
Nifty tests 4900-mark; Europe loses early gains
Moneycontrol.com
Indian equities witnessed a little recovery after European markets opened on a positive note. The recovery, however, was short lived as European markets succumbed to profit booking. The 50-share NSE Nifty fell 51 points to 4897 led by a decline in 38 ...
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Moneycontrol.com
RTL Group cautiously optimistic for 2011
Reuters
Aug 24 (Reuters) - Europe's biggest commercial broadcaster RTL Group posted a rise in first-half core profit thanks to higher growth in its key markets and said it was maintaining some optimism for 2011, despite economic uncertainties. ...
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European shares edge lower as rally loses steam
Reuters
By David Brett LONDON, Aug 24 (Reuters) - Beverage firms led Europe's top shares lower on Wednesday, as mixed corporate results and cooling hopes over the prospect of further economic stimulus in the US saw the recent rebound lose steam. ...
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Brazil Stocks Close Sharply Higher, Tracking US, Europe
Wall Street Journal
European and US stocks posted solid gains Tuesday, partly on hopes that China will be able to sustain its economic growth this year and next. But the big impetus for global stocks came on hopes for Friday's meeting of world economic leaders in Jackson ...
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EU, NATO allies to release frozen assets to Libyan rebels
EurActiv
European Union and NATO officials said yesterday (23 August) that they had begun talks to secure an international agreement to release aid and unfreeze about $100 billion of Gaddafi's assets in overseas banks, even though the dictator was still running ...
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What Italy tells us about Europe's debt crisis
TIME (blog)
In other words, Italy has been gripped by Europe's debt crisis even though it really doesn't deserve to be. That scary fact tells us a lot about where Europe's debt crisis may be headed. Though it is easy to poke fun at Italy, with its sometimes silly ...
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Bank Risk Rises to Record in Europe
Bloomberg
By Michael Shanahan - Tue Aug 23 14:04:24 GMT 2011 The cost of insuring European bank debt against default rose to a record as German investor confidence fell to the lowest in more than 2 1/2 years on concern the region's debt crisis will curb growth. ...
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Found: cold beer's missing link
Sydney Morning Herald
Now scientists believe they have unmasked the microbe - a stowaway that sailed toEurope from the New World 500 years ago. The yeast ended up in the caves and monasteries where beer was brewed in Bavaria. There, it crossed with a distant relative,...
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Sydney Morning Herald
Accor optimistic on H2 after earnings in line
Reuters
PA), Europe's largest hotel group, said it remained "watchful" but had yet to see an impact on demand for hotel rooms from recent economic turmoil and its September bookings looked good. Accor, the world's fourth-largest hotel group, also posted a 27.5 ...
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Contiki Vacations Introduces New 2011-2012 Europe Winter Brochure
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Contiki Vacations, the leader in fun travel packages for 18-35 year olds, is pleased to announce the launch of the 2011-2012 Europe Winter brochure, offering 27 tours for travelers eager to get away during the fall and winter months. ...
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Oil's Outlook Post-Libyan Crisis
Seeking Alpha
The cutoff of Libyan exports also hit Europe immediately, since the vast majority of it goes directly to Western Europe for refining. Yet the loss of Libyan volume for the past six months cost less than 1.4% of global daily demand requirements. ...
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HP Pre 3 To Sell For $75 In Europe, But Not In US
Huffington Post
Among those devices that would land in the HP gadget graveyard were the newly launched TouchPad tablet and the Pre 3 smartphone, which was already on sale in Europe and had yet to launch Stateside. Though the Pre 3 will never see the light of day in ...
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GM's Opel mulls partner to share hybrid costs: report
Reuters
The car, which will hit markets at the end of this year at a price tag of some 40000 euros, has already received some 6000 orders, the paper reported. In 2012, Opel hopes to sell at least 10000 Amperas across Europe. "Maybe we even hit 12000 or more," ...
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Reuters
EU to thaw Libya assets
iAfrica.com
Europe and the United States are preparing to unfreeze billions in frozen Libyan assets that will be crucial to supporting the country once Moammar Gadhafi's regime collapses, but the North African nation's recovery will be neither easy nor rapid. ...
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John Esposito's Deceptions on 'Islamophobia' | EuropeNews
By pk
I wish he knew that only last month a new mosque, Baitul Gaffar, was constructed in New York without a shadow of resistance, or how many euros European governments are pouring into the construct of new mosques. ...
European News Wrap, August 23 – What happened today | VG247
By Johnny Cullen
You need your European-timed news. I need to give you European-timed news. We both need each other. Hence, if you haven't been reading all day, I'll forgive you for not doing so, but only if you catch up right here, right now. ...
VG247
Europe remembers victims of Stalinism and Nazism - Europe news
European officials have gathered in Warsaw to remember the victims of Stalinism and Nazism on the 72nd anniversary of the signing...
Mail.com: International
N-Europe: News: Nintendo Speak Out About Rumours
N-Europe: Quality Nintendo Coverage. ... News: Nintendo Speak Out About Rumours. Posted by Joshua Phillips - Aug 23rd 2011 18: .... Username: Password: Register for a comment account · Forgot password / Change password. N-Europe Search: ...
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HPI Racing Europe - News - Andy Moore and HB in the A Final at the ...
This year's Electric touring car European Championships were held just outside of Vienna, Austria this past weekend. The track for this years event had been built on an ice rink with a roof so for once nobody needed to worry about the ...
HPI Racing Europe
Chinese firms turn to Europe for IPO | China business news
By CBN
Chinese companies are now turning to the European market to raise funds as the door to the American market for initial public offerings (IPOs) is almost blocked to them, China Securities Journal reported Tuesday. ...
China business news
End Software Patents: News » Europe's “unitary patent” could mean ...
By Ciaran
Just as the US software industry is experiencing the long anticipated all-out software patent wars that we have anticipated (http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/tal-when-patents-attack), the EuropeanUnion has a plan to follow the same ...
End Software Patents: News
Russia expects 'more tourists from Europe' « Russian News From Russia
By admin
Russia expects more tourists from Europe, primarily from Germany, France, Britain, Italy, Spain and Finland, Alexander Radkov, the head of the country's federal tourism agency, told the Izvestiya daily. Radkov said other countries that ...
Russian News From Russia
Emerging Europe and The Real Potential | The Daily News – Slovakia
By John Boyd
Budapest – International Public Relations is a tricky business; news that might be totally overlooked by local media is often picked up and broadcast around the world from an international perspective regardless of the local opinion on ...
The Daily News - Slovakia
Europe's Markets Start Higher – Wall Street Journal | Financial News
By forex - Google News
LONDON—European stocks opened higher Wednesday, after a strong close on Wall Street on hopes the Federal Reserve may announce additional measures to help boost the US economy, while a widely expected credit-rating downgrade for . ...
Financial News
Dollar Falls on China's & Europe's Manufacturing — Forex News
By NewsInspector
The US dollar declined today, along with other safe currencies, as manufacturing growth in Europeand China was somewhat higher than was predicted by forecasters, reducing demand for the currency as a safe haven. ...
Forex News
Football League Interactive agrees new digital deal - Sports ...
By comment@sportspromedia.com
Football League Interactive agrees new digital deal, Soccer Infrastructure news from SportsPro MediaEurope. ... Related news. Two new sponsors boost Stevenage FC's coffers - 19 July 2010. ITTF signs deal with Interactive Licensing ...
SportsPro Media - Latest News
EUROPEAN OPENING NEWS INCLUDING: Chancellor Merkel rejects any ...
ASIA JGBs fell overnight as players took cues from a drop in US bonds and firm share prices, though losses were limited as investors shrugged off Moody's cutting Japan's sovereign debt rating, and as the session progressed prices moved ...
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Liverpool news Jamie Carragher says Carling Cup trip Exeter ...
By David McDonnell
Kop hero targets Carling Cup in season without European competition.
Mirror Football
European Biodiversity Strategy 2020: new business opportunities ...
By admin
Vydáno Commission of the European Union last May, and June, the Council of the EU Biodiversity Strategy 2020 aims to “reverse the decline of biodiversity and the EU to accelerate the shift towards a resource and a green economy. ...
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Europe's central meeting for nanomedicine
Posted: Aug 23rd, 2011. Europe's central meeting for nanomedicine. (Nanowerk News) "Nanomedicine is certainly the most promising enabling technology to achieve breakthroughs in medical technologies. It will strongly contribute to ...
Nanowerk Nanotechnology News
Surprising Europe: Making ends meet | America's Breaking Local And ...
By Maverickguy
Surprising Europe: Making ends meet African migrants in Europe have to deal with many obstacles when they are trying to meet the high expectations of thei...
America's Breaking Local And World News
Europe News AT 1700 G | WJTV
TOP STORIES IN EUROPE ON MONDAY, AUG. 22: WORLD-LIBYA ROME World leaders say the end is near for Moammar Gadhafi's regime and begin planning for Libya's ...
www2.wjtv.com/news/.../europe-news-at-1700-g-ar-2307373/

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