4:34pm

Cyprus leader calls for bailout overhaul

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EU unlikely to take favourable view of Anastasiades’ letter

From MARKETS 10:26pm

Dollar gains on yen as Fed meets

Mario Draghi comments boost euro

8:10pm

Backing for tax and secrecy crackdown

Spotlight shone on patchy standards for countering laundering

From US ECONOMY 6:11pm

US senator decries French trade compromise

Worries emerge that concessions could be replicated in other areas

5:49pm

The Macro Sweep: Germany, UK, Russia, US

German confidence grows; IMF cuts forecasts for Russia

An Ingram Pinn illustration of the Greek crisis ©Ingram Pinn Martin Wolf from COMMENT 5:41pm

The toxic legacy of the Greek crisis

That Greece was the first to fall into trouble gave weight to the view that the crisis was fiscal

Jun 17, 2013

EU and US launch trade talks

‘Biggest bilateral trade deal in history’ overshadowed by French row

Jun 17, 2013

Obama sends coded warning on trade deal

Washington worries that Europe will try to omit industries

From US ECONOMY Jun 17, 2013

Foray into global tax fraught with challenges

Political will is growing, given probes into practices of corporations

ECB ©Bloomberg From COMMENT Jun 17, 2013

Europe remains open to bank blackmail

The priority is to put in place the means to wind up insolvent lenders, writes Carsten Schneider

Jun 17, 2013

Asmussen calls for bank resolution fund

ECB policy maker views plan as way of preventing ‘zombification’ of sector

Jun 17, 2013

Trade deal set to benefit US more than EU

Developing countries and flows in Europe would be hit, says Ifo

From UK Jun 17, 2013

BoE says foreign banks made crisis worse

Loan books shrank by almost half at height of credit crunch, says study

From MARKETS Jun 17, 2013

Fed watched for any asset purchase move

FOMC and two other central banks feature prominently this week

From WORLD Jun 16, 2013

Italy issues decree to boost economy

Measures are first since Letta became PM in April

Jun 15, 2013

France lifts block on EU-US trade talks

Cultural industries excluded for time being from negotiations

Jun 14, 2013

France digs in heels on EU-US trade talks

Bloc’s ministers forced to offer cultural ‘carve-out’

From WORLD Jun 14, 2013

Central Europeans prepare flood defences

Towns in flood-prone areas suffer delays to building barriers

Jun 14, 2013

France rejects offer in trade talks

Stand-off set to block launch of EU-US trade talks at G8 summit

From UK Jun 13, 2013

Hopes for G8 trade and tax deals dented

UK agenda runs into opposition from France and Canada

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