(Reuters) – The selloff in U.S. Treasuries may finally give the bourses of Frankfurt, Paris or Milan a decisive edge for 2021 after five straight years of underperformance against Wall Street.FILE PHOTO: The German share price index DAX graph is
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Ambitious EU Proposals Take Aim at Big Tech
It’s a bad week for Big Tech: While the European Commission didn’t name Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google in the two new bills it put forward Tuesday, it might as well have. With the Digital Markets Act, or DMA, and
Seven bodies found in northern Italy, France after violent storms
Slideshow ( 5 images )ROME (Reuters) – Seven bodies were found in a region straddling the French-Italian border near Nice on Sunday after torrential rains swept houses and roads away, officials in both countries said. Five of the bodies were
UPDATE 1-Euro zone negative-yielding debt pile jumps in Sept on renewed global uncertainty
(Updates with more details, context, adds chart) LONDON, Oct 2 (Reuters) – The pile of negative yielding euro zone government bonds rose in September to just over 6 trillion euros from around 5.4 trillion a month earlier, Tradeweb data showed
Europe's insurers call for more 'sustainable' assets to invest in
LONDON (Reuters) – Insurers need more long-term ‘sustainable assets’ to invest in plus clearer rules and more data on sustainability if they are to help to meet the objectives of the European Green Deal, regional trade body Insurance Europe said
MORNING BID-Locking down?
(A look at the day ahead from EMEA deputy markets editor Sujata Rao. The views expressed are her own.) Ten million and counting. That’s how many people have been infected by the new coronavirus, while half a million have been
MORNING BID-Counteracting forces
(A look at the day ahead from EMEA deputy markets editor Sujata Rao. The views expressed are her own.) A strong performance today from trade-exposed Korean stocks and currency. But we also see a rally to eight-year highs by gold,
Vexed by annexation: The battle inside the EU over Israel
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Two months before Donald Trump unveiled his Middle East peace plan on Jan. 28, Luxembourg’s foreign minister was certain the U.S. president would break with the European Union and recognise Israeli sovereignty over Jewish settlements in the
China's Hong Kong law 'grave concern', sanctions no solution: EU
Bloc says move could impact China-EU ties, but rules out taking any action against its major trading partner. The European Union has criticised China for asserting more control over Hong Kong and suggested the move would have an impact on
Remembering the end of World War II in Germany
Guenter Boehm was 15 when the gunfire was silenced in Berlin. As a 15-year-old boy in the capital of Nazi Germany during the final days of the Battle of Berlin in 1945, Guenter Boehm recalls the relief when he realised