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Merkel to fight vehicle emissions plan

Angela Merkel vowed to fight plans for European restrictions on vehicle carbon emissions, saying her government would ‘fight with all its strength’ against moves by Brussels to combat global warming.

Warning on China stock market ‘bubble’

Top legislator predicts overheating

BMS bolsters its banking team

Move seen as step towards bidding war

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Icahn seeks seat on Motorola board

Shares leap as activist investor steps in

Germany’s VAT gamble pays off

Inflation rise less than expected

Brussels plans to curb EU smoking

National governments told to act

Vista launch unites past and future

Gates in London to promote operating system

Games division weighs on Sony

PS3 problems likely to continue

Hizbollah blames Bush for unrest

US accused of ordering Israel to war

Lex

Central bank forecasting

Milton Friedman, in one of his final interviews, suggested that monetary policy should be run by a computer. Since the future is uncertain, any interest rate mechanism will make wrong decisions.

European view

German corporate icons require self-sacrifice

European comment

While grappling with clearly different issues, Siemens and DT could adopt similar steps to take the political heat off their managements and give them a freer hand to pursue restructuring.

Markets

Plummeting cost of protection in credit markets

Paul J Davies

The question in European credit markets at the moment is not so much ‘When will the cycle turn?’ but ‘When will investors even see a corporate bond default?’, writes Paul Davies.

Analysis

Bernanke’s first year has won him grudging respect

Ben Bernanke

After Greenspan’s opaque utterances, Ben Bernanke’s plain speaking seemed like shouting in a library. But a year on, news from the markets is good.

Comment

What France can learn from its nemesis across the Channel

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The debate about the economy can be informed by looking at Britain, write Pascal Boris and Arnaud Vaissie of think-tank Cercle d’outre-Manche.

Editorial comment

China right to worry about bubble trouble

china fund managment

China probably does not have a stock market bubble yet. But when Chinese officials start to use the B-word it is time for investors to worry.


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