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Banco Santander has released Tuesday a net profit of 5.35 billion euros, down 35% as a result of new provisions for impairment of non-performing real estate assets. </ p> The largest bank in the euro area was the last of the Spanish banks to announce that it was setting aside capital to cover its exposure [...]

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The Japanese bank Mizuho will remove 3,000 jobs in response to the deteriorating economic climate marked by weak demand for credit and a difficult economic environment at the international level.
Mizuho Financial Group announced the elimination of these positions, which represent about 5% of its workforce, by March 2016 in connection with the merger [...]

The head of credit ratings of sovereign debt at Fitch Ratings said he was convinced that Spain and Italy were solvent but considered Friday that the two countries were potentially illiquid.
David Riley has also held that a creditor of last resort credible was necessary to Rome and Madrid, stressing that the European Central [...]

LVMH has maintained the pace of a very strong organic growth in the third quarter, despite the vagaries of the global economy and fears of slowing demand for luxury goods in mature markets.
The turnover of the world's number one industry, owner of Louis Vuitton leather goods, Hennessy cognac and Christian Dior perfumes, rose [...]

France and Germany "on contractual" agreements on ways to resolve the debt crisis in the euro area, said Friday the French Minister of Economy Baroin after meeting with his German counterpart Wolfgang Schäuble and Nicolas Sarkozy at the Elysee Palace.
Both ministers, however, did not disclose the concrete modalities of this cooperation, referring implicitly [...]

The leader of the ultra-liberal Freedom and Solidarity (SaS) is threatening not to support the strengthening of the European Financial Stability Fund (EFSF). Slovakia is the latest European country to not voting the text. Slovak Prime Minister Iveta Radicova and the president of Freedom and Solidarity Movement (SaS) Richard Sulik in negotiations for el parliamentary [...]

European values ​​have come down sharply Tuesday for the third straight session, closing with a lowest close in 26 months, fear of failure to Greece making only grow with each passing day.
The pan-European FTSEurofirst 300 index yielded 2.68 and the Eurostoxx 50 was unscrewed from 2.21%. In Paris the CAC 40 ended down [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

German Chancellor wants to avoid non-payment of Athens, which may affect other European countries. German Chancellor Angela Merkel (Blegrade by August 23, 2011)
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Tuesday that it was necessary "to avoid any uncontrolled process in the euro area", referring to a bankruptcy of Greece as it is discussed with emphasis in [...]