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Poll confusion lifts Italy’s borrowing costs
Rome raises €6.5bn at bond sale but yields highest since October
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WORLD
1:07pm
Madrid says 2012 budget deficit at 6.7%
Figure lower than expectations and close to EU target
Markets Insight
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7:15pm
Rome deadlock exposes Europe’s debt delusion
A banking system overloaded with debt is a cause of nervousness
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6:50pm
Italy takes a step into the unknown
Parties should unite behind an agenda for political reform
- Global Insight Italy rejected a lot more than austerity
- Tito Boeri and Luigi Guiso Italy needs reform
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WORLD
Feb 26, 2013
ECB’s market backstop faces Italy test
Politicians likely to reject conditions that accompany help
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Feb 26, 2013
South African economy stays sluggish
Country’s growth below some African peers
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Feb 26, 2013
Italy’s borrowing costs jump after poll
Investors look to future bond auctions for measure of sentiment
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Feb 26, 2013
Election jolt fractures fragile sentiment
Fears of rising anti-euro bias among Italian voters hit markets
Global Insight
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WORLD
Feb 26, 2013
Italy rejected a lot more than austerity
A decontamination of Italian politics must come before economic salvation
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Feb 25, 2013
Loans payback points to divided eurozone
Delve into figures and a picture of a two-tier Europe emerges
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WORLD
Feb 25, 2013
Brussels challenges Madrid on regulator plan
Spain accused of legal infringement over watchdog merger
Feb 25, 2013
Bundesbank tells France to stick to budget
Weidmann warns over need to hit deficit target
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WORLD
Feb 25, 2013
Bleak prospect for Ireland’s forests
Growing anger over Dublin’s move to sell timber rights
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Feb 25, 2013
Fate sealed on pound’s loss of haven status
Fiscal tightness and weak growth will encourage easy monetary policy
Feb 24, 2013
Cyprus victor vows to finalise bailout
Anastasiades to resume talks with international lenders
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Feb 24, 2013
Minister rejects anti-France ‘falsehoods’
Most attractive country in Europe to investors, says Montebourg
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The sad record of fiscal austerity
The ECB could have prevented the panic. Tens of millions are now suffering unnecessarily