Sunday, 19 August 2012


Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

Ambrose Evans-Pritchard is International Business Editor of The Daily Telegraph. He has covered world politics and economics for 30 years, based in Europe, the US, and Latin America. He joined the Telegraph in 1991, serving as Washington correspondent and later Europe correspondent in Brussels.

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LATEST FROM AMBROSE EVANS-PRITCHARD

Finland prepares for a full-blown currency crisis

Finland's foreign minister warns that the country is preparing for a full-blown currency crisis as tensions in the eurozone mount and that it will not tolerate further bail-out creep.

16 Aug 2012

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Ambrose Evans-Pritchard: Germans face shipping crisis

Germany’s shipping industry faces a wave of bankruptcies over coming months as funding dries up and deepening economic woes across the world cause a sharp contraction in container trade.

13 Aug 2012

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Five years on, the Great Recession is turning into a life sentence

Five years into the Long Slump it almost seems as if we are back to square one.

12 Aug 2012

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Hard landing for China as factory prices fall and deflation looms

Factory gate prices in China fell at an accelerating rate of 2.9pc in July as the economy flirted with industrial recession, prompting calls for further stimulus to head off Japanese-style deflation.

09 Aug 2012

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Five years of financial crisis

Ambrose Evans-Pritchard's view of the crisis over the past five year.

09 Aug 2012

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Money data hint at a global recovery

The first green shoots have begun to emerge in money supply data from across the world, raising hopes of a tentative global recovery by later this year.

07 Aug 2012

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Germany and Italy near blows over euro

German politicians from across the spectrum have reacted furiously to warnings by Italy’s Mario Monti that Bundestag control over EU debt policies threatens to bring about the “disintegration” of the European project.

06 Aug 2012

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Venetian cunning of Draghi-Monti masterplan may save euro for now

So we enter the treacherous market month of August with Europe in limbo. The actors wait upon each other. World finance held hostage to a fiendishly complicated game of diplomatic chess.

05 Aug 2012

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Markets fall as Draghi bond plan 'too vague'

ECB opens door to a blitz of bond purchases and fully-fledged quantitative easing in radical shift of policy.

02 Aug 2012

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Pressure grows for Spain to agree to formal bail-out rescue

Italy’s leader Mario Monti to make last-ditch effort to persuade Spain to take formal rescue, hoping to clear way for double-barrelled action by bail-out funds and ECB.

01 Aug 2012

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