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Daily News Roundup 2012: Tuesday 17 April

Good morning The headlines: The next Spanish Debt auction is happening today, where the Spanish Government will sell 12 month and 18 month treasury bills. Yesterday, yields of Spanish 10-year bonds rose to 6.16%. The concern is that 7% was the barrier at which Greece, Ireland and Portugal all sought bailouts. But that’s on long-term […]

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World Bank President: The Oscar goes to…

And the nominees are: Jim Yong Kim – a US National and President of Dartmouth College, New Hampshire José Antonio Ocampo – a Colombian National and Professor at Columbia University, New York Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala – a Nigerian National and Coordinating Minister of the Economy and Minister of Finance, Nigeria. It certainly sounds a bit worldly, […]

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