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Obama: EU 'must focus on growth'

Source country bbc Sunday, May 20, 2012 1:32:00 AM CEST | info [other]

Trigger words: [MonetaryPolicyEU] financial crisis[1]; eurozone[5];

Entities: Barack Obama[1]; Paul Adams[1]; José Manuel Durão Barroso[2]; Herman Van Rompuy[2];

Other categories: José Manuel Barroso; Financial Crisis; EU-USA; EC News; Imports Exports; Council President; EU-Asia; Economic and Monetary Affairs; Energy; Food Safety;

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Barack Obama said: "As all of the leaders here today agree, growth and jobs must be our top priority"

Speaking after the G8 summit, US President Obama says leaders agree that economies must focus on jobs and growth to boost recovery....

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G8 leaders shift focus to growth from austerity

Source country CBC Sunday, May 20, 2012 1:25:00 AM CEST | info [other]

Trigger words: [MonetaryPolicyEU] financial crisis[1]; eurozone[3];

Entities: Barack Obama[1]; François Hollande[1]; Angela Merkel[1];

Other categories: Financial Crisis; EU-USA; European Training Foundation; EU-Asia; Budget; Economic and Monetary Affairs; Food Safety;

The leaders of the G8 group of countries agreed that Europe's financial crisis must be addressed with a mix of growth and austerity measures, as they met in Maryland....

Sommet du G8 : Le président Obama accueille les dirigeants

Source country lemaghrebdz Sunday, May 20, 2012 1:20:00 AM CEST | info [en] [other]

Trigger words: [MonetaryPolicyEU] zone euro[2];

Entities: Nicolas Sarkozy[1]; Vladimir Putin[3]; Bashar Assad[1]; Dmitry Medvedev[3]; Hamid Karzai[1]; Barack Obama[1]; François Hollande[2]; José Manuel Durão Barroso[2];

Other categories: José Manuel Barroso; EU-USA; EC News; Conflict; Security Council; UN Bodies; EU-Asia; Economic and Monetary Affairs; External Relations; Food Safety;

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François Hollande assuré: "Le retrait n'est pas négociable. Le retrait des forces combattantes, c'est une décision de la France et cette décision sera appliquée"

Le président américain a accueilli les dirigeants dans sa résidence de campagne à 100 km de Washington avant-hier vers 20h. Ce sommet des huit pays les plus industrialisés devrait être largement consacré à la crise de la dette en Europe. Les dirigeants du G8 (Etats-Unis, Grande-Bretagne, Canada,.......

Zone euro : Schäuble prédit l'apaisement des marchés d'ici un an ou deux

Source country lemaghrebdz Sunday, May 20, 2012 1:20:00 AM CEST | info [en] [other]

Trigger words: [MonetaryPolicyEU] zone euro[2]; Zone euro[1];

Entities: Jean-Claude Juncker[1]; Wolfgang Schäuble[4]; Pierre Joxe[1]; Helmut Kohl[1]; François Hollande[2]; François Baroin[1]; Pierre Moscovici[1];

Other categories: Political Unrest; Economic Crisis - Internal Market; Development;

Le ministre allemand des Finances, Wolfgang Schäuble, a estimé, avant-hier, que la crise de confiance des marchés envers la zone euro devrait s'apaiser d'ici un an ou deux, réaffirmant que la volonté de Berlin n'était pas que la Grèce en sorte. Dans douze à vingt-quatre mois, on connaîtra un.......

Alimentaires : Le cacao rate le rebond du marché

Source country lemaghrebdz Sunday, May 20, 2012 1:20:00 AM CEST | info [en] [other]

Trigger words: [MonetaryPolicyEU] zone euro[3];

Entities: Bill Nelson[1];

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Bill Nelson souligné: "des problèmes dans les récoltes en Russie, en Ukraine et en Espagne"

Les cours des matières premières alimentaires ont tenté de se reprendre cette semaine, dans un marché toujours hautement volatil du fait de la crise économique persistante en zone euro, le cacao demeurant de son côté sous la pression d'une offre abondante....

Marchés prudents au sommet du G8 : Les Bourses finissent la semaine en repli

Source country lemaghrebdz Sunday, May 20, 2012 1:20:00 AM CEST | info [en] [other]

Trigger words: [MonetaryPolicyEU] zone euro[5];

Entities: Salvatore Ferragamo[1]; Peter Cardillo[1]; Trip Chowdhry[1]; Yves Marçais[1]; Bourse de Francfort[1];

Other categories: Banking - Financial Services; Market; Telecommunications; Economic Crisis - Internal Market;

Les Bourses européennes ont terminé la semaine en baisse, espérant des mesures positives à l'issue du G8 ce qui a permis de compenser, en partie, les inquiétudes persistantes sur la zone euro. Après avoir accusé le coup de la dégradation de la note de 16 banques espagnoles et l'abaissement de la.......

Prix du pétrole : La baisse se poursuit, la crise en zone euro pèse toujours

Source country lemaghrebdz Sunday, May 20, 2012 1:20:00 AM CEST | info [en] [other]

Trigger words: [MonetaryPolicyEU] zone euro[8];

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Les cours du pétrole baissaient, avant-hier, en fin d'échanges européens, toujours pénalisés par la crise grecque et les risques de contagion au sein de la zone euro qui alimentent les inquiétudes sur la vigueur de la demande énergétique mondiale. Peu avant la clôture, le baril de Brent de la mer du.......

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Eurozone has capacity to tackle debt crisis: Obama

Source country xinhuanet_en Sunday, May 20, 2012 1:17:00 AM CEST | info [other]

Trigger words: [MonetaryPolicyEU] eurozone[1]; Eurozone[1];

Entities: Barack Obama[1];

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WASHINGTON, May 19 (Xinhua) -- The eurozone debt crisis was threatening the global economic recovery, but the region had capacity to meet its challenges, U.S. President Barack Obama said on Saturday....

Discord at Key JPMorgan Unit Is Faulted in Loss

Source country irishsun Sunday, May 20, 2012 1:13:00 AM CEST | info [other]

Trigger words: [MonetaryPolicyEU] financial crisis[1];

Entities: Jamie Dimon[1];

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, the central mystery has been how a bank known for its skill at risk management could err so badly. As early as 2010, the senior banker who has been blamed for the debacle, Ina Drew, began to lose ......

G8 leaders end summit with pledge to keep Greece in eurozone

Source country irishsun Sunday, May 20, 2012 1:13:00 AM CEST | info [other]

Trigger words: [MonetaryPolicyEU] eurozone[3];

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Greece in the eurozone and to promote growth.The communique, which had the growth promise at the top, represents a victory for Obama and the new French ......

G8 leaders tout economic growth, fiscal responsibility

Source country cnn Sunday, May 20, 2012 1:10:00 AM CEST | info [other]

Trigger words: [MonetaryPolicyEU] eurozone[6];

Entities: Kofi Annan[1]; Mike Froman[1]; Hamid Karzai[1]; Barack Obama[1]; François Hollande[1]; Peter Bergen[1]; Meles Zenawi[1]; Angela Merkel[1]; Bashar Assad[1]; Asif Ali Zardari[1];

Other categories: European economy; EU-USA; EU-Asia; Economic and Monetary Affairs; External Relations; Food Safety;

World leaders huddling at the Group of Eight meeting on Saturday committed to taking "all necessary steps" to bolster the global economy....

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G8: Van Rompuy en Barroso gesterkt door steun eurozone

Source country demorgen Sunday, May 20, 2012 1:05:00 AM CEST | info [en] [other]

Trigger words: [MonetaryPolicyEU] eurozone[6];

Entities: Barack Obama[1]; François Hollande[1]; José Manuel Durão Barroso[2]; Angela Merkel[1]; Herman Van Rompuy[2];

Other categories: Economic Crisis - Internal Market; Council President; José Manuel Barroso;

De leiders van de acht sterkste economieën ter wereld (G8) hebben op een top in Camp David het belang van het behoud van Griekenland in de eurozone beklemtoond. "We hebben sterke uitingen van vertrouwen en aanmoediging gehoord van onze ......

Obama, other G-8 leaders push economic growth over austerity

Source country latimes Sunday, May 20, 2012 1:04:00 AM CEST | info [other]

Trigger words: [MonetaryPolicyEU] Eurozone[2];

Entities: Angela Merkel[1];

Other categories: EU-USA;

President Obama and leaders of the world’s other leading economies Saturday embraced a policy of growth over austerity in Europe as they met on the cloistered grounds of Camp David to talk about fending off a spread of the Eurozone crisis....

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Obama: G-8 Leaders Agree Growth, Jobs Are Priority

Source country npr Sunday, May 20, 2012 12:55:00 AM CEST | info [other]

Trigger words: [MonetaryPolicyEU] eurozone[2];

Entities: Angela Merkel[1]; Mario Monti[1];

Other categories: Financial Crisis; EU-USA; EC News; Market; Budget; Economic and Monetary Affairs;

President Obama and other leaders of wealthy nations underscored an increasing consensus for the need to combine growth measures with relentless budget cutbacks if their countries are to work their way out of their debt troubles....

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News Analysis: Greek crisis fuels concern over collapse of euro

Source country xinhuanet_en Sunday, May 20, 2012 12:32:00 AM CEST | info [other]

Trigger words: [MonetaryPolicyEU] Monetary Union[1]; eurozone[9]; Eurozone[1]; EMU[3];

Entities: Mark Cliffe[1]; Erik Nielsen[1]; Mario Monti[1];

Other categories: European Central Bank; EU-USA;

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Erik Nielsen told: "Opinion polls in Greece do not suggest a clearer picture for the June election, unfortunately, and there is a significant risk that Greece will slide further towards an economic collapse,"

Mark Cliffe said: "Suddenly the prospect of Greece leaving EMU (European Monetary Union) looks horribly real,"

By Josephine McKenna ROME, May 19 (Xinhua) -- As the eurozone crisis dominated the Group of Eight talks in the United States on Friday, there was growing speculation that Greece would exit the euro and threaten the collapse of the common currency. Economists are not only worried about whether the.......

G8 Leaders Want Greece to Remain in Eurozone

Source country voanews Sunday, May 20, 2012 12:31:00 AM CEST | info [other]

Trigger words: [MonetaryPolicyEU] eurozone[2]; Eurozone[1];

Entities: Mike Froman[1]; Barack Obama[1]; François Hollande[1]; Angela Merkel[1]; Nicolas Sarkozy[1];

Other categories: European economy; EU-USA; Economic and Monetary Affairs;

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Barack Obama said: "All of us are absolutely committed to making sure that both growth and stability, and fiscal consolidation, are part of a overall package that all of us have to pursue in order to achieve the kind of prosperity for our citizens that we are looking for,"

Mike Froman said: "I think there was, first of all, total consensus that there needs to be fiscal consolidation - obviously, each country according to its own circumstance - but there also needs to be a major emphasis on growth,"

Barack Obama said: "We are hopeful about the discussions that will be taking place in Baghdad, but all of us are firmly committed to continuing with the approach of sanctions and pressure, in combination with diplomatic discussions,"

WHITE HOUSE - The leaders of eight large industrialized nations say they hope Greece will remain in the eurozone, despite its debt crisis. The Group of Eight leaders talked Saturday about ways to strengthen the battered European economy. U.S. President Barack Obama is hosting the G8 Summit at the.......

Could Glass-Steagall Have Stopped JPMorgan Loss?

Source country npr Sunday, May 20, 2012 12:25:00 AM CEST | info [other]

Trigger words: [MonetaryPolicyEU] financial crisis[1];

Entities: Lawrence Summers[1]; Bill Clinton[1]; Byron Dorgan[1]; Elizabeth Warren[1]; Charles Schumer[1]; Guy Raz[1];

Other categories: Consumers; Financial Crisis; Consumer Affairs;

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Elizabeth Warren says: "Glass-Steagall says there needs to be a wall between those two kinds of activities," "It's not going to work to let the biggest financial institutions just go out and do what they want"

The banking giant's $2 billion loss has many lawmakers and economists wondering what happened to the 2010 financial overhaul, which was supposed to prevent risky hedging. Many are also looking back further — to a Depression-era law, repealed in 1999, that separated commercial and investment bank activities....

G8 leaders hope Greece remains in eurozone

Source country kathimerini-en Sunday, May 20, 2012 12:24:00 AM CEST | info [other]

Trigger words: [MonetaryPolicyEU] financial crisis[1]; eurozone[3];

Entities: Barack Obama[1]; Angela Merkel[1];

Other categories: Financial Crisis; EU-USA;

President Barack Obama and other leaders of the Group of Eight industrial nations expressed hope Saturday that Greece will remain ......

Greece bridles at Merkel’s referendum suggestion

Source country dailytimesPK Sunday, May 20, 2012 12:23:00 AM CEST | info [other]

Trigger words: [MonetaryPolicyEU] eurozone[4];

Entities: Karolos Papoulias[1]; Barack Obama[1]; Eleftheros Typos[1]; Antonis Samaras[1]; François Hollande[1]; Evangelos Venizelos[1]; Angela Merkel[1]; Alexis Tsipras[1];

Other categories: Financial Crisis; EU-USA; Banking - Financial Services;

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Antonis Samaras said: “The Greek people have no need for a referendum to demonstrate their choice for the euro, they have already made enough costly sacrifices to show that,”

Antonis Samaras said: “above all coming in the run-up to the election, is regrettable and unacceptable,”

Alexis Tsipras said (about Angela Merkel) : “Madame Merkel is used to talking to Greek political leaders as if she was addressing a protectorate,” “Greeks are going to give a definitive answer (in the upcoming polls) and are going to put an end to the policies of austerity and submission, they will open the way for progressive forces across Europe,”

Evangelos Venizelos said: “The question for Greece is not whether it stays in the euro or not, but whether it can get out of the crisis,”

Eleftheros Typos wrote (about Angela Merkel) : “It’s a Merkel Bomb for a euro referendum, an unprecedented political intervention which makes things worse,”

The chancellor’s move — despite a denial by Berlin — went down badly with leaders sensitive to any comments from Germany, which has insisted that Athens stick to tough austerity measures agreed in return for a massive EU-IMF bailout Greek political leaders reacted angrily Saturday to a suggestion,.......

Australia shares slammed to 6-month low on Europe woes

Source country dailytimesPK Sunday, May 20, 2012 12:23:00 AM CEST | info [other]

Trigger words: [MonetaryPolicyEU] financial crisis[1];

Entities: Mike Smith[1];

Other categories: Political Unrest; Banking - Financial Services;

MELBOURNE: Australian shares tumbled 2.7 percent on Friday on growing concerns about the global economic outlook, fanned by an escalating banking crisis in Spain, political turmoil in Greece and sluggish US data. For the week, the market slumped 5.6 percent, its worst weekly performance since July....

Prices dip as investors pause safe-haven buying

Source country dailytimesPK Sunday, May 20, 2012 12:23:00 AM CEST | info [other]

Trigger words: [MonetaryPolicyEU] financial crisis[1];

Entities: Carl Weinberg[1]; Kim Rupert[1];

Other categories:

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Kim Rupert said: “It is a pretty cautious trade, with the record low yield on 10-years yesterday and with supply coming up next week, people don’t want to chase (Treasuries prices) much further and richen it up ahead of those offerings,”

Carl Weinberg said: “Euroland is ... enroute to its own ‘Lehman moment’ unless policymakers take definitive steps to change its course. We see no evidence that this is happening so we now expect the worst,”

NEW YORK: US Treasury debt prices eased on Friday as investors took a break from safe-haven buying driven by the euro zone debt crisis that had pushed benchmark yields to the lowest close in at least 60 years on Thursday. Investors booked some profits and increased their risk profile on Friday, with equities rising....

Azarov to Brussels: Ukraine making 'consistent progress towards European integration'

Source country kyivpost Sunday, May 20, 2012 12:23:00 AM CEST | info [other]

Trigger words: [MonetaryPolicyEU] financial crisis[1]; Eurozone[1];

Entities: Yulia Tymoshenko[1];

Other categories: Consumers; DG Taxation & Customs Union; Financial Crisis; All Media; Croatia-EU; VAT; Science; Market; Discrimination; Fight against Fraud; FRA-EU; Consumers; Customs; Development; Enlargement; Fight against fraud; Internal Market; Taxation; Transport;

Editor's Note: The following is an English-language transcript of Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov's speech before the European Parliament in Brussels on May 16....

David Cameron's radical plan to reform jobs red tape

Source country telegraph Sunday, May 20, 2012 12:11:00 AM CEST | info [other]

Trigger words: [MonetaryPolicyEU] eurozone[2];

Entities: Justin King[1]; Damian Collins[1]; David Cameron[1]; Ed Miliband[1]; William Hague[1]; Jo Johnson[1]; Vincent Cable[1]; Barack Obama[1]; François Hollande[1]; Angela Merkel[1];

Other categories: European Enterprise News; EU-USA;

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Damian Collins says: “With high levels of unemployment in Europe in particular, people require more of their leaders and to see evidence that they are straining every sinew to help create competitive advantage in their economies,”

The Prime Minister is to throw his weight behind a far-reaching report from Adrian Beecroft, a venture capitalist, which calls for a bonfire of regulations that employers say are stifling job creation....

G8 leaders end summit with pledge to keep Greece in eurozone

Source country guardian Sunday, May 20, 2012 12:08:00 AM CEST | info [other]

Trigger words: [MonetaryPolicyEU] monetary policy[1]; eurozone[6];

Entities: David Cameron[1];

Other categories: European Central Bank; EU-USA;

US and France succeed in putting promotion of growth at top of communique despite Germany's resistance to stimulus package Barack Obama and the other G8 leaders wrapped up their negotiations on the European crisis at Camp David on Saturday with a pledge to keep Greece in the eurozone and to promote growth....

Ešte sme neskončili, odkazuje na Slovensko tréner Vůjtek

Source country noviny Saturday, May 19, 2012 11:48:00 PM CEST | info [en] [other]

Trigger words: [MonetaryPolicyEU] sme[3];

Other categories:

Neuveriteľný pokoj a pokora vyžaruje z hlavného trénera slovenskej hokejovej reprezentácie Vladimír Vůjtka počas 76. majstrovstiev sveta vo fínskych Helsinkách....

G8 leaders stress boosting growth, job creation

Source country xinhuanet_en Saturday, May 19, 2012 11:47:00 PM CEST | info [other]

Trigger words: [MonetaryPolicyEU] eurozone[2];

Other categories: Alternative Energy; Banking - Financial Services; Political Unrest; Environment (general);

WASHINGTON, May 19 (Xinhua) -- Leaders of the Group of Eight ( G8) industrialized nations said on Saturday that bolstering economic growth and job creation was critical to the global economic recovery, as Greek political deadlock and banking sector stress in Spain and Italy weighed on markets in past weeks....

Politics › G-8 leaders hope Greece remains in eurozone

Source country japantoday Saturday, May 19, 2012 11:46:00 PM CEST | info [other]

Trigger words: [MonetaryPolicyEU] financial crisis[1]; eurozone[3];

Entities: Dmitry Medvedev[1]; Kofi Annan[1]; Mitt Romney[1]; Mario Monti[1]; Barack Obama[1]; Yoshihiko Noda[1]; François Hollande[1]; Vladimir Putin[1]; Angela Merkel[1]; Bashar Assad[1]; Michelle Obama[1];

Other categories: Financial Crisis; EU-USA; Market; European Council; UN Bodies; EU-Asia; Development; Economic and Monetary Affairs; External Relations; Food Safety;

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Barack Obama said: “All of us are absolutely committed to making sure that growth and stability and fiscal consolidation are part of an overall package,”

Leaders of the Group of Eight industrial nations expressed hope Saturday that Greece will remain in the eurozone as they huddled for a shirt-sleeves summit aimed at keeping Europe's economic troubles from multiplying and spreading around the world. Circling up around a table in a rustic cabin at the U....

Obama, G-8: Recovery takes both growth and cutting

Source country csmonitor Saturday, May 19, 2012 11:40:00 PM CEST | info [other]

Trigger words: [MonetaryPolicyEU] financial crisis[1]; eurozone[2];

Entities: Dmitry Medvedev[1]; Barack Obama[2]; Philippe Wojazer[1]; David Cameron[1]; François Hollande[2]; Ben Feller[1]; Jim Kuhnhenn[1];

Other categories: Financial Crisis; EU-USA; Imports Exports;

Confronting an economic crisis that threatens them all, President Obama and leaders of other world powers on Saturday declared that their governments must both spark growth and cut the debt that has crippled the European continent and put investors worldwide on edge....

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