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Eurozone slump eases but recovery not yet on cards

2 hour(s) ago

Bloc’s purchasing managers index for manufacturing and services rises more than expected in June but remains in contraction territory

Americas

Fed likely to cut down on bond buying this year — Bernanke

US Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke addresses a news conference following the Fed's two-day policy meeting at the Federal Reserve in Washington on Wednesday. Picture: REUTERS
7 hour(s) ago

Federal Reserve chairman says if the economy continues to improve as the central bank forecasts, bond purchases may be reduced later this year

Asia-Pacific

China rejects US judgment on human trafficking

2 hour(s) ago

Washington downgrades China, Russia and Uzbekistan’s efforts to fight ‘modern slavery’, putting them in lowest tier with North Korea, with sanctions a possibility

Europe

French slump eases, German economy stalls

3 hour(s) ago

Purchasing managers indices point to second-quarter stagnation in Germany, while rise in French PMI shows contraction persists but pace has slowed

Americas

US Federal Reserve to keep buying bonds at $85bn monthly pace

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17 hour(s) ago

No explicit indication that Fed is close to scaling back programme, despite intense market speculation to that effect

Asia-Pacific

Chinese factory activity at nine-month low

CONTRACTION: Employees work in a factory in Zhengzhou, Henan province. China’s factory activity weakened to a nine-month low in June. Picture: REUTERS
4 hour(s) ago

HSBC flash purchasing managers index falls to 48.3 in June, showing further contraction in manufacturing sector, with subindices for new orders and employment falling

A business analyst in search of employment wears a board listing his skills and experience as he stands in the Canary Wharf financial district of London.  Picture: REUTERS

Europe’s youth unemployment non-problem

There are several reasons to doubt that youth unemployment is a discrete problem meriting special treatment, writes Daniel Gros

Asia-Pacific

Death tolls rise as flash floods, landslides wreak havoc in India, Nepal

Vehicles are submerged in the rising waters of river Yamuna in New Delhi on Wednesday. The rains are at least twice as heavy as usual in northwest and central India as the June-September monsoon spreads north, covering the whole country a month faster than normal. REUTERS
47 minute(s) ago

Helicopters and 10,000 Indian soldiers deployed to reach stranded tourists and pilgrims in India after more than 1,000 people die in early monsoons

Europe

Italian court rules designers Dolce and Gabbana guilty of tax evasion

Italian fashion designers Stefano Gabbana and Domenico Dolce. Picture: REUTERS
5 hour(s) ago

Designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana found guilty of failing to declare €200m through Luxembourg company to authorities

Middle East

Afghanistan shuns US talks with Taliban, suspends troop negotiations

INSURGENCY: Afghan security forces arrive after an operation in the Sorkhrod district of Jalalabad province on Wednesday. Police said they captured two suspected Taliban insurgents and killed four others during an overnight ambush. Picture: REUTERS
4 hour(s) ago

Afghan President Hamid Karzai, angered by opening of Doha Taliban office, says his government will not join US talks, halts negotiations with US on post-2014 troop pact

International companies

FUTURE UNCERTAIN: An employee works in front of a Sony Bravia television monitor at an electronics store in Tokyo. Sony is considering a proposal to spin off its entertainment business. Picture: REUTERS

Sony CEO asks for patience as it considers spinoff plan

Kazuo Hirai says management will carefully review hedge fund Third Point’s proposal for partial unbundling of electronics maker’s entertainment unit

Europe

France orders Google to change privacy policy

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1 hour(s) ago

French data protection watchdog CNIL warns top search engine and e-mail provider that it could face fines if it fails to act within three months

Europe

Alcatel-Lucent’s new head Combes spells out asset sales and cost cuts

Alcatel-Lucent chief executive officer Michel Combes. Picture: REUTERS
8 hour(s) ago

Company plans to sell at least €1bn of assets and reduce costs by another à1bn to stem losses, says Alcatel-Lucent's new CEO Michel Combes

(Left to right) World Economic Forum (WEF) founder Klaus Schwab, Vietnam PM Nguyen Tan Dung, Myanmar leader Thein Sein and Laos PM Thongsing Thammavong at the opening ceremony of the WEF on East Asia, in Myanmar earlier this month.  Picture: REUTERS

Myanmar’s growth challenge

Myanmar needs investment in a variety of sectors beyond energy and mining, and a significant boost in productivity, write Martin N Baily and Richard Dobbs

Europe

Banks rush in to offer record loan to Glencore Xstrata

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5 hour(s) ago

World’s biggest publicly traded commodity supplier signs $17.3bn of revolving credit facilities, as the 80 banks backing the deal count on winning more business from the company

Europe

Banks seen at risk as Swiss bury US tax bill

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5 hour(s) ago

Swiss legislators deal death blow to bill which aims to protect country’s banks from criminal charges in US for helping wealthy Americans evade tax

Europe

UK’s ‘reckless bankers’ could end up in prison

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22 hour(s) ago

Bankers guilty of misconduct may be jailed and lose bonuses if recommendations on how to clean up London’s financial sector become law

Europe

Boeing launch sharpens rivalry

TAKING FLIGHT: Boeing’s chairman and CEO, Jim McNerney, right, and Ray Conner, CE of Boeing Commercial Aircraft, at the 50th Paris Air Show, at Le Bourget airport on Tuesday. Picture: REUTERS
1 day(s) ago

Launch of larger version of its flagship Dreamline aircraft sharpens battle with rival Airbus in booming market for fuel-efficient, long-distance aircraft

World

World ‘not truly safe’ from nuclear threat

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5 hour(s) ago

US President Barack Obama renews call to cut world’s nuclear arsenals, saying the US can ensure its own security and that of its allies with one-third fewer weapons

Americas

Obama hints at Bernanke retirement

1 day(s) ago

President Barack Obama suggests he will allow US Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke to retire despite the US central bank facing a crucial period

Americas

Rousseff moves to defuse mass protests sweeping Brazil

SOLIDARITY: Riot police face off against demonstrators during protests against poor public services, police violence and government corruption in São Paulo on Tuesday night. Picture: REUTERS
1 day(s) ago

President Dilma Rousseff expresses sympathy with ‘the voice of the streets’, promises to address grievances including poor public services and corruption

Europe

H&M posts drop in second-quarter earnings

1 day(s) ago

Fashion retailer enters third quarter with higher inventories than planned after bad weather and sluggish consumer morale in Europe knock profit

Americas

Obama defends US monitoring tactics

STRONG BOND: German Chancellor Angela Merkel stands with US President Barack Obama and Berlin mayor Klaus Wowereit, right, behind bulletproof glass at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin on Wednesday. Picture: REUTERS
6 hour(s) ago

President Barack Obama tells Chancellor Angela Merkel and wary Germans that Washington is not monitoring e-mails of ordinary citizens or damaging civil liberties

Middle East

‘Unhappy’ Afghanistan rejects US-Taliban talks

1 day(s) ago

Afghan government, upset that Taliban has opened an office in Doha, distances itself from US-Taliban peace talks and suspends troop negotiations

World

Assange unlikely to leave embassy even if Sweden drops sexual assault case

CRAMPED QUARTERS: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, left, waves from a window with Ecuador’s Foreign Affairs Minister Ricardo Patino at Ecuador’s embassy in central London on Sunday. Picture: REUTERS
1 day(s) ago

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who has spent a year in Ecuadorean diplomatic building, says he fears extradition to the US

Europe

Swiss government faces uphill battle to pass US tax accord bill

Swiss Finance Minister Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf speaks to the National Council on the Swiss-US tax deal during their summer parliament session in Bern, Switzerland, on Tuesday.  Picture: REUTERS
1 day(s) ago

Swiss government faces struggle to push through landmark deal aimed at resolving a bitter tax dispute with the US

Europe

Maersk plans alliance with two biggest shipping rivals

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1 day(s) ago

World’s three biggest container shipping companies agree to share vessels in bid to minimise losses caused by overcapacity and falling freight rates

Europe

Obama urges Belfast youth to cement peace

2 day(s) ago

US President Barack Obama urges young people in Northern Ireland to set an example to other parts of the world stricken by religious conflict, violence and war

Asia-Pacific

Japan’s economic growth outlook is given an upgrade

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2 day(s) ago

Poll shows that monetary stimulus is likely to boost Japan’s economy to faster than expected growth, despite recent surge in the yen and sharp fall in Tokyo shares

Americas

LETTER FROM AMERICA: Microsoft chief mulls bigger part in pulling customers’ strings

Letter from America
2 day(s) ago

If you live in an advanced economy, you shed useable data about yourself around the clock in ways even George Orwell would have found hard to imagine, writes Simon Barber

World

Backing for enforcement of ban on ransom payments

1 day(s) ago

Group of Eight leaders agrees to stamp out the payment of ransoms for hostages kidnapped by ‘terrorists’

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