Eurozone
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Eurozone growth rises to 0.5%; Trump adviser claims euro 'grossly undervalued'- as it happenedAll the day’s economic and financial news, including new growth and unemployment data from the eurozone
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Shakira and Joe Biden get Davos 2017 under way, as Brexit fears hit pound - as it happenedFirst speakers at World Economic Forum as investors sell sterling on renewed fears of hard Brexit ahead of Theresa May speech
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FTSE 100 hits new record closing high for second day running – as it happenedAll the day’s economic and financial news, as stock markets in London and New York hover around their highest levels
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Banking standards: treacherous political waters lie aheadThe system has been safer since the Basel III regulations, but tensions are high between the US and the eurozone – which both have their own preoccupations
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UK growth following Brexit vote revised up; Deutche and Credit Suisse fined billions – as it happenedA bumper load of bank news, as Deutsche and Credit Suisse settle with DoJ, and the Italian cabinet agrees to rescue MPS
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Italy to bail out Monte dei Paschi di Siena bank with €20bn rescue fundParliament steps in with emergency plan as a private effort to raise €5bn for the world’s oldest bank seems likely to fail
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RBS fails Bank of England stress testTaxpayer-backed bank unveils plan to bolster its capital by £2bn after faltering in annual health check of UK banking system
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Euro hits four-month low as Mario Draghi hints at more stimulus – as it happenedMario Draghi suggests ECB could extend its QE programme in December, and suggests ECB might taper its asset-purchase scheme
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EU and IMF auditors to visit Athens as Greece's agony continuesSeven years into its worst post-war slump, eurozone’s weakest link is locked into debts of €330bn amid talk of fourth bailout
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Eurogroup ministers back further bailout loans for GreeceEU finance ministers to release €2.8bn after Athens government carried out required reforms relating to privatising state assets, tax and pensions
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Britain will be fastest growing G7 economy this year, says IMFFund’s world economic outlook report predicts UK will avoid recession in 2016 but warns of longer-term impact of Brexit vote
French senate report says UK must not be better off after Brexit