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February 05, 2020 21:03
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October 21,2019Departing European Central Bank President Mario Draghi will leave a conflicting legacy after chairing his final governing council meeting on Thursday, credited with saving the euro but dividing the... -
October 14,2019Economists Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer won the 2019 Nobel Economics Prize for their work in fighting global poverty, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said on Monday.
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October 12,2019Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi told visiting Chinese President Xi Jinping on Saturday that relations between their countries have attained stability and momentum in the past year, and that it...
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September 30,2019The outgoing president of the European Central Bank has called on euro countries to commit to further integration in what is a controversial and divisive topic among the 19 nations.
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September 25,2019Central banks “have used their tools to a large extent already” and are running out of options to mitigate the impact of global economic risks, Deutsche Bank’s CEO warned on Wednesday.
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September 24,2019The United Kingdom’s Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s decision to shut down parliament in the runup to Brexit was unlawful, a humiliating rebuke that thrusts...
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September 18,2019The risk of Britain leaving the European Union without a divorce deal remains “very real,” European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker declared Wednesday as EU lawmakers debated the ramifications...
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September 15,2019Former British prime minister David Cameron launched a blistering attack on the UK's current leader Boris Johnson in extracts of his memoirs published Sunday, accusing him of only backing Brexit to...
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September 14,2019Ahmet Davutoglu, a one-time prime minister and chairman of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s ruling AK Party, announced he was resigning from the governing bloc and plans to form a new...
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September 03,2019British Prime Minister Boris Johnson warned members of his own party that if they did not vote with the government when the country’s parliament returns on Tuesday from a summer break, they would...
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August 23,2019A possible trade deal with the US will do little to mitigate the impact of Britain leaving the EU without a deal in place, economists have told CNBC.
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August 21,2019China, Japan and South Korea sought to find common ground on Wednesday amid an escalating trade dispute between Tokyo and Seoul that has further soured relations between the two countries.
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August 12,2019In an apparent tit-for-tat move, South Korea said Monday it will remove Japan from its "whitelist" of trusted trade partners, an act that risks further exacerbating tensions between the two US...
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August 10,2019The International Monetary Fund is urging the world’s two largest economies to resolve the escalating trade war quickly and fairly.
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August 05,2019HSBC ousted John Flint as chief executive after just 18 months in a shock move the chairman of Europe’s biggest bank said was needed to speed up progress on priority areas such as the turnaround of...
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August 03,2019EU ministers on Friday chose the Bulgarian number two of the World Bank Kristalina Georgieva as the bloc's candidate to become IMF chief, in a fractious vote that failed to heal bitter divisions...
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August 02,2019China on Friday said it would not be blackmailed and warned of retaliation after US President Donald Trump vowed to slap a 10% tariff on $300 billion of Chinese imports from next month, sharply...
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July 28,2019UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson formed a war cabinet of six senior ministers to plan for exiting the European Union by Oct. 31, as a key adviser said leaving without a deal had become a very real...
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July 24,2019European officials are still scratching their heads over Christine Lagarde’s successor at the International Monetary Fund, according to several people with knowledge of the discussions, with no...
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July 23,2019Boris Johnson has been elected leader of the United Kingdom's Conservative Party and, by default, the country's next prime minister.
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July 22,2019UN nuclear watchdog chief Yukiya Amano has died, the International Atomic Energy Agency said on Monday, the day he had been expected to announce he would step down early because of an illness that...
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July 21,2019Philip Hammond has told the BBC he intends to resign as chancellor if Boris Johnson becomes the UK's next prime minister.
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July 17,2019Ursula von der Leyen will be the next president of the European Commission, the EU’s executive arm, after lawmakers approved her nomination on Tuesday.
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July 10,2019Britain’s ambassador to Washington quit on Wednesday after days of stinging criticism from US President Donald Trump.
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July 09,2019Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn announced on Tuesday that his party would back Remain in any referendum on a Conservative Brexit deal, heralding a major shift in policy.
