Rioters continue to battle police in Sweden
Six cars torched on fourth night of violence as police call for reinforcement in immigrant-dominated areas of Stockholm. Read more ...
Six cars torched on fourth night of violence as police call for reinforcement in immigrant-dominated areas of Stockholm. Read more ...
Like most blockbuster summer movies, “Star Trek Into Darkness” sells escapism. But not all versions of cinematic escapism are the same. Read more ...
A row over plans to teach French university courses in English has sparked soul-searching in France. Here, readers share their favourite anglicisms. Read more ...
It had the same ingredients as Europe’s debt-crisis drama: a battle between north and south, British defiance, media jeering, and murky decision-making starring a cast of unidentified technocrats. Read more ...
May 23 (Reuters) - The town of Ramapo, New York, postponedissuing nearly $40 million in bonds on Thursday after federallaw enforcement officials raided town offices last week,according to data company [...] Read more ...
Meanwhile, euro dropping away [...] Read more ...
Sony posted its first positive financial results since 2008 this month, and its next financial move sees it seeking to raise 150 billion yen (around $1.5 billion) in order to pay off [...] Read more ...
It seems the correlation to USDJPY has started to disintegrate and what is more worrisome for the BoJ is the linkage between JGBs and the Nikkei 225. Equities in Japan are about to open to a modest bounce around 1.5% but JGB prices are down around 0.50 (half the limit-down price moves). So, the problem for the BoJ is - do you let JGBs flop to maint [...] Read more ...
PARIS (Reuters) - Bundesbank chief Jens Weidmann said on Thursday it is not up to the European Central Bank to solve the euro zone crisis, resisting pressure from other ECB policymakers for the bank to [...] Read more ...
J. Kyle Bass, whose Hayman Advisors LP made $500 million amid the U.S. subprime crisis, said the Bank of Japan will have to “dramatically” increase bond-buying efforts that have been “overwhelmed” by investors selling. Read more ...
Over the last three years, the IMF's economic forecasts have repeatedly proved to be overly optimistic. The problem is rooted in a misdiagnosis of the global economy's problems, including the impact of the eurozone crisis and slowing GDP growth in emerging economies. Read more ...
A group of Manchester City fans plan to thank former manager Roberto Mancini with an advert in an Italian newspaper. Read more ...
The Japanese market suffered another turbulent session after Thursday's dive – dropping as much as 3.5% in the afternoon – but stabilised to close 0.9% higher [...] Read more ...
Commentary on current economic and financial news. Read more ...
A Recology garbage truck struck and killed a bicyclist Thursday morning in San Francisco's Mission District, police said. The crash happened near 16th Street and South Van Ness Avenue about 6:45 a.m. A witness said the truck, which was paralleling the male bicyclist on eastbound 16th, tried to make a right turn onto southbound South Van Ness and c [...] Read more ...
Three months after launching in beta, TechStars grad Bondsy is releasing its self-titled iPhone app to the public with the goal of helping friends "trade things you can't [...] Read more ...
A prominent figure in the Chechen diaspora in Turkey was shot at his Ankara office in an attack that supporters blamed on Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov. Read more ...
Vietnam’s dollar bonds are beating their Southeast Asian peers as the region’s highest yields attract investors confident the government can revive an economy growing at the slowest pace in 13 years. Read more ...
Prime minister says improving competitiveness and low tax rates would help Athens [...] Read more ...
Smashed windows and cars on fire - one of Europe's most peaceful capitals, Stockholm, is witnessing its worst outbreak of violence in years. Hundreds [...] Read more ...
The Lithuanian security services have arrested a Russian national at the request of the U.S. Justice Department, which suspects him of smuggling export-restricted military equipment. Read more ...
Syria’s main opposition group is set to hold a second day of talks Friday, mulling a new U.S. Read more ...
The deactivation of NATO’s Allied Air Command was marked Wednesday during a ceremony at its headquarters in Izmir, Turkey, where it will shut down operations as part of a reorganization that will merge the alliance’s air command efforts under one consolidated headquarters in Germany. Read more ...
The huge efforts to help finically troubled countries gave us an answer to a question with Asian ramifications: Can the IMF cooperate with regional institutions? Read more ...
French universities could teach in English. For some, this amounts to a betrayal of the national language - for others it's just accepting the inevitable. Read more ...
Column: We may mark the bicentenary of the Famine knowing we are still living its demographic legacy [...] Read more ...
European Central Bank President Mario Draghi has urged European governments to push on with reforms and banking union plans. Draghi added that the EU is more stable than a year ago, but challenges remain. Read more ...
WHEN a German newspaper in January headlined the success of populists across Europe and their absence in Germany, Frauke Petry thought: “We are here, but nobody [...] Read more ...
