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The improvement in the U.S. employment continued in January, with the highest rate of job creation observed in nine months and the unemployment rate fell to , its lowest level in nearly three years, reflecting the impact of growth in the fourth quarter of 2011 at the beginning of new year.
The Labor Department [...]

In protest against the austerity plan of Prime Minister David Cameron, the public sector employees are mobilized en masse on Wednesday. A strike could be the "most important in a generation." Public transport could be very disturbed by work stoppages on Wednesday.
The British public sector employees are on strike on Wednesday against pension reforms, [...]

The German government's economic advisers believe that the European Central Bank (ECB) is likely to lose credibility by buying government bonds heavily indebted.
"The bond purchase program dismantles market discipline without establishing a discipline policy in place," write the "Wise Men" German in a report released Wednesday.
Blurring the fiscal and monetary policies, [...]

A cabinet meeting will be held tonight to accept the austerity measures agreed at the Summit of the rescue of the euro on October 28 in Brussels. The Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi at the European Summit of October 23, 2011
The Italian government said Wednesday in a statement the convening of an extraordinary cabinet [...]

The gamble of George Papandreou destabilizes markets. A "no" to the Greeks in the referendum, which will probably take place in January, could force the country to default. And, ultimately, out of the euro area. The Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou.
The euro area has suddenly plunged into turmoil Tuesday after the surprise announcement of [...]

Airbus said Thursday it had registered 1,038 net orders between January and September.
The European aircraft manufacturer, a subsidiary of Airbus, said the amount of its gross orders had reached 1,179 aircraft and reported delivered 374 aircraft in the first nine months of the year.
By comparison, Boeing had recorded at September 27, [...]

The CAC 40 index should increase by the end of the year, investors hoping to buy with it as long as the situation becomes clearer on the front of the debt crisis in the eurozone.
According to the median forecast of 27 analysts and fund managers polled by Reuters in a week, the Cac [...]

The Portuguese prime minister said Wednesday that his country would be vulnerable if a member country of the euro area was defaulting on its debt.
"I do not want a country will default but if it happens, obviously (…), we would be vulnerable to an event of this nature," said Pedro Passos Coelho to [...]

Populist and protectionist measures in the developing world are likely to increase as nations will suffer the fallout from the crisis of sovereign debt in Europe and the economic slowdown in the U.S., said Thursday the president of the World Bank, Robert Zoellick.
Zoellick warned in an interview with Reuters that a new crisis [...]

Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou on Sunday chaired a cabinet meeting to decide which new austerity measures to ensure continued funding of a plan of international aid.
Inspectors from the International Monetary Fund and the European Union will hold a conference call Monday with Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos to learn what steps will be [...]