| Tue, 29 Nov 2011 Gold Steady; Euro Zone Remains in Focus
| Gold prices held steady on Wednesday, as investors continue to watch developments in Europe after euro zone finance ministers agreed on expanding the bloc's rescue fund and proposed to ask the IMF for help. | altrendo images | Getty Images | ... | GLOBAL MARKETS-Asian shares, euro inch up after euro zone bailout plans
* MSCI Asia Pacific ex-Japan inches up, Nikkei falls 0.8 pct * Euro edges up 0.1 pct By Chikako Mogi TOKYO, Nov 30 (Reuters) - Asian shares and the euro inched up on Wednesday after European officials agreed to strengthen a bailout fund and seek more aid from the Intern... | ESRI warns euro crisis will lower Irish growth in 2012
| DAN O'BRIEN, Economics Editor | MUCH WEAKER economic growth than previously anticipated in Europe will seriously affect the Irish economy's performance next year, according to the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI). | Europe faces a repeat of the 1930s Grea... | Stability fund in focus as Italy remains under pressure
| Italy faced interest rates of 7.89 per cent to borrow money for three years by selling new bonds, a sharp increase from the 4.93 per cent interest demanded by investors in October. It also faced higher rates to borrow for 10 years, paying 7.56 per cent when it issued ... | Heresy, perhaps, but taxes MUST be cut
| Since the Chancellor delivered his last Budget eight months ago, the whole economic landscape of Britain, and indeed of Europe, has changed. In March, there were some people who still believed that our national deficit would be under control by 2015, and that recovery... | Eurozone turns to IMF for more help in debt crisis
Eurozone finance ministers turned to the IMF for more help to keep the monetary union together late Tuesday after they missed their goal of boosting their own bailout fund to one trillion euros. | With fears rising that Italy will need a bailout after its borrowing cost... | 'Thousands more' will leave Ireland
Tens of thousands more will flee Ireland next year as the chances of recovery hang on the outcome of the eurozone crisis, a leading think-tank has warned. | Deepening international uncertainty over the future of the euro has forced a more pessimistic rethink on the pros... | Eurozone wants boost in IMF bailout funds to solve crisis
| Brussels - Eurozone finance ministers said Tuesday they wanted to boost the bailout funds at the disposal of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) as part of efforts to solve their debt crisis, but remained hazy on where the money would come from. | 'We have ... agree... | Euro Unmoved by EFSF Plans, Market Burned Before
| The euro barely budged in Asia on Wednesday as the market gave a guarded reception to details on the euro zone's new lending facility and on proposals to expand funding for the IMF so it could lend to troubled members such as Italy. | AP | ... | |
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