There is an interesting report from Reuters this evening. According to unnamed sources, during a private meeting, German Chancellor Angela Merkel asked French President Francois Hollande whether he would be willing to back IMF Chief Christine Lagarde a…
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April 3, 2013
The package is coming together. The IMF has officially announced that it will take part in the Cypriot bailout, providing €1bn of the total €10bn in loans – that gives a UK share of around €50m (see our thoughts here on UK IMF shares). That leave…
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In today’s Telegraph, Mats Persson seeks to answer this simple – and yet brutally complex – question: is the eurozone crisis over?’We are in the middle of the beginning of the end. The crisis has really hit its peak”, former French economy minister a…
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