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Merkel favoured to win a 3rd term, but make up of coalition far from certain
While German Chancellor Angela Merkel remains heavily favoured to win a third term in next Sunday's parliamentary election, the make up of the coalition set to rule the country for the next four years is all but certain.
Plunging from...
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Leaders from the eight Nordic and Baltic nations gather for summit
1. Nordic and Baltic leaders walk into news conference
2. Cutaway of flags
3. Wide of leaders sat at table
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Helle Thorning-Schmidt, Prime Minister of Denmark:
"The Nordic welfare states have proved to be remarkably...
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Markets open as Standard and Poor's warns eurozone countries
1. Various of trading floor and traders
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Moritz Kraemer, Managing director, European sovereign ratings, Standard & Poor's:
"Well it's our opinion that the financial crisis that we are witnessing in the eurozone...
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IMF give a state of the world economy assessment
1. Wide of International Monetary Fund (IMF) World Economic Study team members walking into news briefing
2. Cutaway of audience members
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Olivier Blanchard, Chief Economist, IMF:
"The global economy has entered a...
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World bank chief comments on EU debt plan
1. World Bank chief Robert Zoellick arriving to a news conference
2. Mid of news conference
3. Sign (English) "The World Bank Group in the Philippines, making growth work for the poor"
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Robert Zoellick, World Bank...
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HONG KONG: JAPANESE STORE DAIMARU FORCED TO CLOSE DOWN
Mandarin/Eng/Nat
A Japanese department store which has been trading in Hong Kong for 38 years has been forced to close down.
Department store operator Daimaru was the latest victim of Hong Kong's retail slump following the economic...
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HONG KONG: INVESTORS LOOSE CONFIDENCE IN ONCE VIBRANT ECONOMY
Cant/Eng/Nat
Nervous investors in Hong Kong have been rushing to withdraw their stocks and assets by closing accounts at various brokerage houses in the territory Friday.
Amidst economic turmoil in the region and the liquidation of two...
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Oil prices surpassed $103 a barrel for the first time today as persistent weakness in the U.S. dollar and the prospect of lower interest rates attracted fresh money to the oil market.
HEADLINE: Markets plummet at week's close
CAPTION: Queasy stomachs and financial pain on Wall Street. All the indexes were down at the week's close. (Feb. 29)
[Notes:ANCHOR VOICE]
An unsettling start to the weekend---as stock prices...
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Reax to Obama stimulus package at World Economic Forum
1. Exterior of Congress Centre with a bus driving past
2. Mid of flags
3. Interior, sign reading "World Economic Forum"
4. Man sitting reading newspaper
5. Close-up of newspaper
6. Former Israeli Prime Minister and Likud Party leader...
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Clinton on relations with region, bilats, Geithner
AP Television
1. Hilary Rodham Clinton, US Secretary of State, at news conference
2. Mid shot of Clinton talking
3. Cutaway journalists
Department of State TV
4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Hilary Rodham Clinton, US Secretary of State:
"What...
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Trading floor and analyst as oil prices hit $98 per barrel
1. Wide of Hong Kong Stock Exchange trading floor
2. Various of screen showing trading stock
3. Various of dealers working on trading floor
4. Close-up of computer screens showing stock prices
5. Set-up of Senior Manager of Tyche...
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European Fin Mins comment on Ireland; regulation
1. Wide exterior Palais d'Egmont, venue for European Finance Ministers meeting
2. Belgian and EU flags
3. Italian Finance Minister Giulio Tremonti gets out of car, approaches
4. Swedish Finance Minister Anders Borg arriving, walks...
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EDIT Obama discusses economic crisis, stimulus pkg during weekly address
1. GRAPHIC: (English) "Your weekly address - February 7, 2009
2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Barack Obama, US President:
"Yesterday began with some devastating news with regard to our economic crisis. But I'm pleased to say it ended on a more...
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New coalition government sworn in in Portugal
1. Wide of newly elected Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho signing book at swearing in ceremony UPSOUND: (Portuguese) "I solemnly state, on my honour, that I will loyally carry out the functions I'm being trusted with."
2. Mid of...
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OECD forecast, Italian PM Monti meets Dutch MP Rutte
Rome, Italy
1. Wide of Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti and Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte entering room
2. Close up of photographer
3. SOUNDBITE: (Italian) Mario Monti, Italian Prime Minister:
"We want a Europe that does not...
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Stylist suffers as whole nation faces a "haircut" to save its banking system
Nicosia - 27 March 2013
1. Close of hair being cut
2. Various of hairdresser George Sofroniou cutting hair
3. Mid of customer getting her hair cut
4. SOUNDBITE (English) George Sofroniou, hairdresser, co-owner of the hairdressing...
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President Barack Obama has Oval Office meeting with Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner prior to Geithner's trip to Europe and a meeting of finance ministers from the G-20
AP Television
Washington, DC 11 March 2009
1. Wide of US President Barack Obama and US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner
2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Barack Obama, President - United States:
"We've got two goals in the G-20. The first...
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WRAP Nikkei down, SKor stocks drop after Wall St falls; SKor currency swap, HK close
Tokyo, Japan
1. Wide tilt down of Tokyo Stock Exchange
2. Mid of trader at desk
3. Close-up of trader at desk
4. Wide of stock boards, zoom in stock figures
5. Close-up of screen showing graphs, zoom in of figures at market opening
6....
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IMF chief sounds warning on food prices
1. Finance ministers walk into news conference (++MUTE++)
2. Cutaway of media
3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Dominique Strauss-Kahn, International Monetary Fund Managing Director:
"Some of the ministers were very eloquent on the need to be...
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Economic troubles play into election outcome in well-off Basque region
Bilbao - 19 October 2012
1. 'Temporarily' laid-off ship yard shop steward Jose Luis Fraiz beside docks
2. Various of shipyard
3. Fraiz looking
4. Fraiz walking on street
5. Various of Fraiz entering home
6. Various of Fraiz in apartment...
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UK: MALAYSIAN & SINGAPOREAN PRIME MINISTERS PRESS CONFERENCE
English/Nat
Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has said the second Asia-Europe summit in London "delivered much more" than he had initially expected.
Speaking at a news conference following the summit, Mahathir said he was...
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MEXICO: FINANCIAL CRISIS
Eng/Span/Nat
The Mexican stock market has had one of its worst days since the country's economic crisis began three weeks ago. The market took a roller-coaster tumble yesterday (Tuesday) at one point losing eleven percent - making it...
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Excerpts of pressers by leaders after summit talks
1. Wide of French President Nicolas Sarkozy at news conference
2. SOUNDBITE (French) Nicolas Sarkozy, French President
"In the spirit of what we said in Fribourg last week, Chancellor Merkel and myself, we have to go further. We will...
Bloomberg
Traders Brace for Worst Earnings Season Since Crisis
April 11 -- The U.S. earnings season unofficially kicks off later today, when Alcoa Inc. reports quarterly results after markets close. European peers including Tesco Plc and Sodexo SA are scheduled to release financial reports this...