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Markets wobble as China hits overdrive

Global markets see-sawed after figures showed China’s economy grew more strongly than expected in the first quarter, heightening the prospect of further rate rises and monetary tightening.

Blair drops plan for EU referendum

Seeks scaled-back version of treaty

Watchdog to rule on Sacyr bid

Offer values Eiffage at €10bn

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Italy ‘hostile to foreign investment’

US envoy’s anger over Telecom Italia

Wilbur Ross calls Aim market ‘dangerous’

Billionaire investor attacks governance

French business hits out at populism

Candidates ‘resort to business-bashing’

Piëch cements control over VW

Muted criticism over governance

Merrill continues run of strong results

Investment banking profits soar

McCain turns to music as funds falter

Sings ‘Bomb, bomb Iran’ at campaign event

Nokia sees US improvement in 2008

Finnish group’s net profit hits $1.3bn

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China’s overheating economy

Is China overheating? Thursday’s release of GDP data added fuel to the perennial question.

European view

Spanish shake up France’s corporate ivory tower

European comment

It is a rare event indeed for a company’s AGM to overshadow in sheer vitriol, passion and noise the final days of a French election campaign.

Markets

China and India

John Authers

Recent economic growth in the world’s two largest countries is causing a fundamental shift. But their stock markets have little in common, writes John Authers.

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Why France is viewing the world with froideur

Nicolas Sarkozy and Segolene Royal

The French go to the polls on Sunday conscious that the president they choose can expect a lesser influence beyond their borders than before.

Editorial comment

The main candidates’ performance has been dismal

france / elections

No wonder 40 per cent of French adults have still not made up their minds how to vote: many will resent being treated as politically retarded.

Comment

America’s dismal debate brings little hope of peace in Iraq

Philip Stephens

Just as Bush refuses to admit the war is lost, so his opponents decline to contemplate what it means to admit defeat, says Philip Stephens.


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