Sunday, November 20, 2011

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A rally could happen but some big "ifs" (Reuters)

Posted: 20 Nov 2011 08:47 AM PST

Reuters - Wall Street is in for a volatile run this week as escalating problems in Europe's debt crisis continue to keep investors on their toes.

Italy's Monti reviews finances before EU meetings (Reuters)

Posted: 20 Nov 2011 04:37 AM PST

Reuters - Newly installed Prime Minister Mario Monti got straight to work at the weekend, reviewing Italy's parlous finances before a round of meetings in coming days with European leaders to discuss the growing euro zone debt crisis.

Greek PM heads for Brussels to try to secure cash (Reuters)

Posted: 20 Nov 2011 07:20 AM PST

Reuters - Greece's new prime minister headed to Brussels on Sunday to fight for the aid Athens needs to avoid bankruptcy, even as one of his coalition backers refused to give a written pledge to support reforms and a public sector union geared up for strikes.

U.S. money funds seen at risk from Europe's debt storm (Reuters)

Posted: 20 Nov 2011 04:19 AM PST

Reuters - When Lehman Brothers collapsed in 2008 and shattered the belief that U.S. money market funds would never "break the buck," Washington rushed to limit the damage.

China vice premier sees chronic global recession (Reuters)

Posted: 19 Nov 2011 10:41 PM PST

Reuters - A long-term global recession is certain to happen and China must focus on domestic problems, Chinese Vice Premier Wang Qishan has said.

Governance group urges Tokyo bourse not to delist Olympus (Reuters)

Posted: 17 Nov 2011 09:39 PM PST

Reuters - A corporate governance advocacy group whose members include institutional investors that collectively manage assets of more than $10 trillion urged Tokyo's stock exchange on Friday not to delist disgraced Olympus Corp (7733.T).

Deep spending cuts pose a new threat to US economy (AP)

Posted: 18 Nov 2011 08:51 AM PST

Supercommittee member Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass. meets with reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 17, 2011, as he and fellow Supercommittee members emerged from a closed-door meeting.  (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)AP - Just as the U.S. economy is making progress despite Europe's turmoil, here come two new threats.


Spain election dominated by its economic woes (AP)

Posted: 20 Nov 2011 08:16 AM PST

Conservative Popular Party candidate Mariano Rajoy talks with journalists after voting at a voting station in Madrid, Sunday Nov, 20, 2011. Spaniards are voting Sunday in the general elections likely to oust the ruling Socialists in favor of the conservative Popular Party.  (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)AP - Spaniards braving 21.5 percent unemployment and bleak prospects for economic growth voted Sunday in a general election expected to yield a landslide win for opposition conservatives.


Ermotti says UBS strategy has Weber's full backing: report (Reuters)

Posted: 20 Nov 2011 03:20 AM PST

Swiss bank UBS CEO Sergio Ermotti attends a news conference in Zurich, November 15, 2011. REUTERS/Christian HartmannReuters - Swiss bank UBS's strategy to slash risky assets by almost half and pay its first dividend since the financial crisis has the full backing of Axel Weber, its newly-crowned Chief Executive Sergio Ermotti said in a Swiss newspaper on Sunday.


Cyprus president to visit offshore gas rig (AP)

Posted: 20 Nov 2011 05:48 AM PST

AP - Cyprus' president plans to visit a U.S. rig on Monday that is carrying out exploratory drilling for gas off the island's coast, despite protests from Turkey that the hydrocarbon search ignores the rights of breakaway Turkish Cypriots.

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