Germany, Russia and France agree on Iraq Gerhard Schröder and Vladimir Putin said that they had agreed with France to vote at the United Nations in favour of a controversial US draft resolution on Iraq.
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European markets were little moved after the world's leading mobile phone handset maker Nokia reported flat earnings. But technology stocks were weaker after Nokia cut its fourth quarter forecasts.
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CURRENCIES Greenback flexes its muscles The dollar hit a one-week high in early European trade on Thursday as strong earnings data pointed to recovery in the US. Improved retail and manufacturing figures also contributed.
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Futures markets
Chicago is their kinda town The European challenger Eurex believes it can increase the size of the US market for financial instruments and meet investors' demands for cheaper ways of doing business. A lawsuit begun this week by Europe's biggest futures exchange is part of a process that threatens to end Chicago's decades-long dominance of dollar-denominated futures markets. Oct 15 2003 | Read
The central European accession countries are more prosperous, productive and politically stable than the databases usually indicate, write Matthew Olex-Szczytowski and Jacek Rostowski.
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The US economy is a "tightly coiled spring", with plenty of growth potential, writes Ricardo Caballero, professor of economics at MIT.
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EU shuffles decision making cards The prime ministers of Spain and Poland are waiting poker-faced to see what they will be offered in return for making the concessions that will be necessary to reach agreement on the new EU constitution, writes George Parker. 19:02 | Read
Zimbabwe crisis strains Botswana's nerves The morgue in Francistown, Botswana, has been filling up with unclaimed corpses. In January to September this dusty border town buried 36 Zimbabweans who died far from their families, reports John Reed, the FT's southern Africa correspondent. 13:48 | Read