Eurozone
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Government agrees to talks on reforms with European creditors in return for progress on releasing next tranche of funds
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Cross-party inquiry also rules out privileged EU access for some UK sectors and says 200,000 jobs are at stake in the City
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Athens’ refusal to further austerity intensifies standoff over €86bn aid package that requires government to implement economic reforms
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Geopolitical uncertainties surrounding Brexit, US economic policy and European elections are likely to stunt economic expansion in the year ahead
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First speakers at World Economic Forum as investors sell sterling on renewed fears of hard Brexit ahead of Theresa May speech
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All the day’s economic and financial news, as stock markets in London and New York hover around their highest levels
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Project Syndicate economists Banking standards: treacherous political waters lie ahead
Howard DaviesThe 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 -
A 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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Parliament 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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From the French right’s selection of Fillon to the Italian referendum and Austrian election, Europe’s centre is oblivious to its own existential crisis. They might want to dust off their copies of Thomas Mann’s Death in Venice
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The country’s biggest lender took cash away from savers to survive in 2013. Now, remarkably, Bank of Cyprus is hoping to float in London
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The president of the European Central Bank has signalled monetary support will persist amid a fragile eurozone recovery and weak inflationary pressures
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US president says it is in world’s interest for Greece to stay in eurozone and praises EU as ‘one of greatest political and economic achievements of modern times’
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Mario Draghi suggests ECB could extend its QE programme in December, and suggests ECB might taper its asset-purchase scheme
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