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Commerzbank may need assistance from the German government to comply with new European requirements for capital if the economy continues to slow, given the poor results recorded recently by the group, said Monday the agency Fitch Ratings.
Last week, Germany's second largest bank, owned 25% by the German federal state, however, had said she [...]

The President of the European Central Bank (ECB), Jean-Claude Trichet, said that the crisis of sovereign debt in Europe is not over and it is too early to estimate the lights returned to green.
In interviews granted to the German newspaper Bild am Sonntag, and French Le Monde, one that will yield the first [...]

The decisions of the top leaders of the euro area in particular provide a 50% discount on Greek debt held by private creditors and a strengthening of the EFSF to 1.000 billion euros. The details. The European Council President Herman Van Rompuy, Nicolas Sarkozy and Angela Merkel in Brussels.
The top of the eurozone, which [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Employees of Boeing delivered Monday by hand – in the literal sense – in the pouring rain and their first 787 Dreamliner to Japanese carrier All Nippon Airways, ending the long chapter of a development that has accumulated delays.
The 500 staff of Seattle, with the help of a trailer mechanics, have conveyed the [...]

Wall Street opened on an uncertain note Tuesday in the wake of profit taking and as investors questioned whether the Fed will back a move to boost growth.
In early trade, the Dow was stable (0.04%) to 11,406 points.The Standard & Poor's also (-0.01%) to 1204 points while the Nasdaq composite fell by 0.1% [...]

In an interview with Les Echos, the head of Lagardère responds to criticism of its sense of priorities, and reveals his strategy to ten years. Arnaud Lagardère and his girlfriend, Jade Forest, were filmed last July during a photo shoot languorous. Since then, the video is a huge buzz on the internet.
"We do not [...]

Vice President Joe Biden tried to reassure Beijing again on the strength of the U.S. economy by ensuring that Sunday the United States would never be in default.
"The United States has never been in default and will never be in default," said Biden in a speech to Sichuan in southern China.
China [...]

European shares retreated again Friday morning after a black day, weighed down by fears of a recession in the United States. The latest information. Traders at the New York Stock Exchange, August 18, 2011
11:17: The Greek GDP could shrink by more than 4.5% in 2011 against 3.8% expected, announced Friday the Greek finance minister, [...]