Friday, 21 September 2012


Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

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

Spain risks break-up as Rajoy angers Catalan

Catalonian independence graffiti 
The ruling parties of Catalonia have sought guidance from Brussels on the legality of secession from Spain, requesting a “route map” for membership of the European Union and the euro as an independent state.
20 Sep 2012
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Japan launches QE8 as 20-year slump drags on

Japanese 10000 yen notes are arranged for a photograph in Tokyo, Japan, on Thursday, Jan. 8, 2009 
Bank of Japan acts to weaken yen and cushion return to recession.
19 Sep 2012
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Beijing hints at bond attack to bring Japan to its knees

China's national flag is raised during the opening ceremony of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games at the National Stadium 
Row over disputed Senkaku/Diaoyu islands takes another twist, writes Ambrose Evans-Pritchard.
18 Sep 2012
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Spain shuns further cuts as unrest grows

 
Spain is digging in its heels against further austerity as protests sweep the country and mounting tensions with Catalan nationalists threaten to split the country.
16 Sep 2012
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Bernanke attacked for 'too low’ interest rates

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke delivers a report on the country's economic and financial health before the House Financial Services Committee, on Capitol Hill in Washington 
The US Federal Reserve and central banks worldwide kept interest rates far too low in the build-up to the global credit bubble and may have caused much of the crisis, the world’s top watchdog has concluded.
16 Sep 2012
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The End of China's Easy Growth

The more we learn about China’s vast stimulus plans, the more far-fetched they seem.
16 Sep 2012
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Era of 'jobs-targeting' begins as Fed launches QE3

Quantitative Easing has become banal, a fine-tuning tool like any other. It is by now drained of all drama. Even the Federal Reserve’s hawks have lost the will to resist. Five of the six critics acquiesced.
13 Sep 2012
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German court backs ESM rescue fund in double-edged ruling

Germany's highest court has cleared the way for ratification of the eurozone bail-out fund but capped German contributions and fired a cannon shot across the bows of the European Central Bank.
12 Sep 2012
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Draghi bond plan threatened by terms

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