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War of the roses: IMF vs EU

There won’t be a news brief tomorrow, Wednesday, 14 November 2012. Everything seems a bit unsettled today: the EU and the IMF had there biggest falling out yet, Swiss banks face more fraud...

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All talk, no results, but at least Glencore is happy.

If things continue like this, I’m going to start making news up. I hear it works for The Sun. Japan’s exports to China fell by 12% in October, amounting to JPY948bn ($12bn) or the largest monthly trade...

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Splitting up – Barclays reconsiders investment bank, Catalonia favors seperatism

Barclays may have to follow the seemingly unavoidable path of European banks and split. The bank’s shareholders have demanded that new CEO Antony Jenkins should let go of investment banking operations,...

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The unexpected: A deal for Greece, a Canadian for the BoE

The Eurogroup has completed its first successful Greece-related meeting measured by the measurability of its results. In short: we got a deal. It’s not a haircut (go Germany!), but it’s not far from...

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Go team Draghi

So we got ourselves a banking union. That is surprising for a number of reasons. First of all, the Eurogroup struck a deal. Secondly, the Eurogroup struck said deal before the deadline. Finally,...

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Leadership: Obama’s 2nd term and maybe Merkel’s last

There won’t be a newsletter tomorrow, Tuesday, 22 January 2013. In the US, which is closed for Martin Luther King day today, President Obama has officially been sworn in again, commencing his second...

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Cyprus to exit the news

Over the weekend… actually right before, Fitch but the UK on its watchlist for downgrades. The United States Congress is working on reforming the taxability of debt and equity, changing the traditional...

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Cypriot capital controls, EU templates and Japanese QE

Yesterday… Cyprus‘ President Nicos Anastasiades announced that the country’s banks are going to stay closed until Thursday (again: which Thursday…) and that capital controls will be put in place until...

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Portugal could need second bailout (to pay for the first)

This morning… the Eurogroup is meeting in Dublin; on the menu: stop messing around with bank stress tests (i.e. tighten measures) and the bailout schemes of Portugal and Ireland. Some say even if...

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Libor 2.0 and a £10bn UK-US trade agreement

Over the weekend… we saw the first proposal for a Libor reform from Martin Wheatley of the FCA (Financial Conduct Authority and successor of the FSA), who told the FT about the Libor 2.0, which could...

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