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LONDON (Reuters) – World stocks hovered near a 5-1/2 month high on Friday as investors anticipated an imminent conclusion to Greek debt talks while lower Spanish bond yields and a fall in Italy’s six-month borrowing costs also supported the euro.
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LONDON (Reuters) – World stocks hovered near a 5-1/2 month high on Friday as investors anticipated an imminent conclusion to Greek debt talks while lower Spanish bond yields and a fall in Italy’s six-month borrowing costs also supported the euro.
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LONDON (Reuters) – The euro jumped and stocks rose as strong demand at auctions for Italian and Spanish government debt on Thursday eased fears over the region’s debt crisis but markets are on watch for comments from the European Central Bank after it …

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LONDON (Reuters) – Hopes for U.S. corporate results lifted global stocks on Tuesday and signs the debt-scarred euro zone economy might be less fragile than feared kept the shared currency clear of recent lows.
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LONDON (Reuters) – Stocks, commodity prices and the dollar moved higher on Friday while safe-haven government bonds fell after better-than-expected U.S. jobs data for December confirmed the recovery in the world’s biggest economy is strengthening.
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LONDON (Reuters) – World stocks rose on Friday after upbeat U.S. data and corporate results, while concerns over the European banking sector and nervousness about potential ratings downgrades in European sovereign debt underpinned German government bon…

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LONDON (Reuters) – European stocks and the euro steadied on Tuesday after sharp sell-offs on disappointment about last week’s EU summit but any gains could be short lived due to lingering concerns over credit rating downgrades and the health of the ban…

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LONDON (Reuters) – World stocks and the euro started the final month of the year on a positive note on Thursday as a Spanish debt sale saw good demand and a liquidity move by major central banks raised hopes policymakers would take more steps to tackle…

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LONDON (Reuters) – World stocks rose from last week’s 7-week low on Monday as hopes grew euro zone leaders would unveil fresh measures to resolve the two-year-old debt crisis, while caution ahead of next week’s key summit kept the euro and German yield…

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LONDON (Reuters) – German government bond yields hit their highest in nearly a month on Thursday and world stocks held near 7-week lows as a weak debt sale the previous day fanned fears the euro zone debt crisis may finally begin to threaten its bigges…

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