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Potential negotiations to restructure European holdings of Greek government debt won't come until after details about Athens's 2013-2014 budget are known, an International Monetary Fund spokesman said Thursday.Euro-zone officials have said they are open to cutting the value of Greece's debt if Athens lives up to its vows for more budget cuts, higher revenues and a restructuring of the country's broken economy as part of a massive joint European-IMF bailout."Our projections show that further debt relief will be needed for Europe to meet its commitment to reduce Greek debt significantly to the program level," IMF spokesman Gerry Rice said.The joint bailout program targets cutting Greek debt to 124% of gross domestic product by 2020 and "substantially below" 110% by 2022. Euro-zone officials said they expect to review debt restructuring by the beginning of 2014."We don't envision any new [debt restructuring] discussions at this juncture," Mr. Rice said.He also said that there's no talk of...
Credit Agricole SA (ACA.FR) Tuesday said first-quarter net profit jumped 51%, as the French bank draws a line under its disastrous foray into Greece, and slims down ...
The euro zone economy will contract by more than expected this year and budget deficits will decline more slowly, the European Commission said on Friday as it set ou...
Investors in bank bonds, facing dwindling options for buying new European debt and under pressure to boost returns, are warming to riskier types of bonds that regula...
Deals keep coming in the European primary bond market Tuesday as borrowers continue to take advantage of investors' search for yield, while the cost of insuring Euro...
One day last October, a memory stick containing special software for deleting data was placed into a desktop computer at Bank of Cyprus.Within minutes, 28,000 files ...
Europe is seeking a balance between austerity and growth that is thin as a razor and about as easy to traverse.Since the onset of the European debt crisis several ye...
You've probably heard the old adage: "Sell in May and go away." It's a nice little rhyme, and it does have a basis in the market's seasonal patterns. Historically, t...
Japan's economy is about to get another boost from an infusion of government spending, as Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's government aims to maintain financial--and poli...
Insurance companies are still very concerned about low interest rates pinching their investment profits. But for the first time in years, their second biggest concer...
Pacific Investment Management Co., home to the world's biggest bond fund, is cutting holdings of Italian and Spanish government bonds amid a sharp rally in the two m...
Super Mario creator Nintendo Co Ltd forecast a return to the black after two years of losses and camera maker Canon Inc raised its profit forecast by nearly 10 perce...
Andreas Dombret, an executive board member of Germany's Bundesbank, said Wednesday he expects gradual but positive growth for Germany this year.He added that provide...
The chief executives of eight leading energy utilities Tuesday slammed the European Union's political leaders for the continent's fragmented energy policy and sought...
A spare smattering of new bonds were sold in Europe on Wednesday as credit markets spent the session hovering near unchanged.A quasi-sovereign borrower, a bank, and ...
Charles Schwab Corp.'s (SCHW) daily trading volume fell 3% in April from March but climbed 2% from the year-ago period.Like its peers, Schwab has been grappling with...
Spain pulled in massive demand for the sale of new 10-year government bonds Tuesday, as investors continued to look to the euro zone's riskier markets in the hunt fo...
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It finally happened. The Aussie dollar failed to rebound versus the U.S. dollar Thursday to break below the US$1.00 parity level, thereby fulfilling the wishes of a ...
ArcelorMittal: Brazil per-capita steel consumption to rise on infrastructure plan-ArcelorMittal Brasil CEO sees weaker Brazilian real "inevitable" in coming years-Ar...
