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Eurozone is doomed without radical reform says economist Stiglitz
As the eurozone struggles with weak growth and the threat of deflation, left-leaning economist and Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz is insisting the currency bloc is doomed without radical changes. In a new book he claims the European...
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Plastic fantastic – Britain unveils polymer banknotes
Britain has issued its first banknotes made of plastic. The five pound note in circulation from Tuesday is printed on polymer – a thin and flexible plastic – which the UK central bank said is cleaner, less harmful to the environment and...
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Egypt sees stability for its economy with IMF loans
Egypt says it is close to agreeing loans from the International Monetary Fund that it hopes will restore confidence in its struggling economy. Tourists and foreign investors – key sources of hard currency – have been scared off by...
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Slumping post-Brexit pound to hit Eurotunnel profit
Eurotunnel has lowered its profit forecast for this year and next because the Brexit vote caused the value of the pound to drop. The Anglo-French company’s shares lost as much as a third of their value in the immediate aftermath of the...
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Pound hits new post-Brexit low
The British pound continues to slump in reaction to the UK’s vote to leave the European Union. At one stage on Wednesday it dipped just below $1.28 in trading in Asia; its worst value in 31 years before creeping back up. That still left...
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Japan’s Abe speaks on Brexit concerns
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has addressed the effects of the Brexit vote on his country, pledging to use all available policy tools to help its economy grow. Abe has held two meetings with top policymakers from Japan’s central...
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Russia cuts cost of borrowing as inflation falls
Russia’s central bank has cut its main interest rate by 0.5 percent to 10.5 percent. The reduction in the cost of borrowing is the first since July 2015. The move – which was expected by most economists – pushed up the value of the...
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Marvin Ryder of the DeGroote School of Business, McMaster University, on some of the day's top stories
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Nine EU states could still adopt the euro. But why would they?
Have the benefits of the single currency been overlooked since the eurozone crisis, which peaked between 2010 and 2013? After all, growth has picked up across the European Union, and five million jobs were created between 2014 and 2017....
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Tussle over 500 euro notes ends with slow phasing out
A big row over big money has ended with a compromise. The European Central Bank is to stop issuing 500 euro notes, but only from the end of 2018 due to resistance from Germany. The ECB had wanted to do away with the high-denomination...
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Russia’s central bank governor wants to lower risks from forex fluctuations
The woman with the difficult task of running Russia’s central bank has been talking about risk. Governor Elvira Nabiullina was speaking specifically about the risk of loans taken out not in roubles, but in dollars or euros. She said the...
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The 500 euro note – could its days be numbered?
Finance ministers are calling on the European Central Bank (ECB) to look at ways of tightening access to 500 euro notes, in a bid to cut terror funding. There are concerns that its high value makes it easy to carry large sums and launder...
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Pound slumps on Boris related ‘Brexit’ fears
The British pound has slumped further in value against the dollar on worries that the UK is more likely to leave the European Union. Foreign exchange dealers do not like the uncertainty which was added to by London’s Mayor Boris Johnson...
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Conor Bill, managing director, Mt. Auburn Capital, talks about some of the day's top stories
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Holiday hangover hits rouble as speculators claw at Russia
The Russian rouble tanked again on Monday as the week opened with the Russian currency under severe market pressure. A 10-day holiday period in Russia has come to an end and traders are facing a public storm of price pressures and...
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Russian ruble scrapes new low, no happier for 2016
The Russian ruble on the last currency trading day of the year has hit a new 2015 low against the US dollar, at one point falling to 73.20 to the greenback. Weaker oil prices since mid-2014 mean the ruble has more than halved in value...
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Macri scaps currency controls and floats Argentine peso
The new Conservative government in Argentina has wasted little time in making an economic break with the recent past by floating the peso and abandoning currency controls. President Mauricio Macri wants to stimulate exports and...
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Sweden ‘on way to becoming cashless society’
Cash is falling out of favour in Sweden, according to a research study at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. Many Swedes like people everywhere remain attached to their currency, the krona, which has been used since 1873....
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Cash losing its currency? – Sweden prepares to bid farewell to physical money
How long will Swedes continue queuing at cash machines to get their Kroner? The answer is, maybe not that long at all. Sweden already uses less physical money than any other country and could be set to become the world’s first cashless...
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Ghana's Precious Gold: Mahama's War With Galamsey | World Of Africa | WION
Ghana, Africa's top gold producer, has waged a war against the growing smuggling of the precious metal in the country.
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Japan's yen hit a new low against the dollar to levels not seen since 1986
Japan's falling currency. Tourists take advantage of the Yen's decline but it's economic pain for the locals.
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Wisconsin Dips Toes in Crypto. What's Next for BTC?
The State Of Wisconsin Investment Board invested $163 million in Bitcoin ETFS. What does this mean for the future of Bitcoin and crypto?
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Zimbabwe’s new gold-backed currency: New notes in circulation to counter inflation
Zimbabwe's new currency has gone into circulation.
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Police make multiple arrests in ‘largest gold theft in Canadian history’
Police say five suspects arrested, three more being sought over theft of 6,600 gold bars at Toronto airport last year.