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Cash bonuses for top bankers should be capped at the size of their salaries, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said on Friday, lending powerful clout to a European push to tighten curbs on banker pay. Schaeuble's proposal could help end the stalemate over tight limits on banker bonuses which the European parliament wants to include
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A late-night blackout in the southern coastal town of Limassol brought back memories of the July 2011 munitions blast in nearby Mari naval base that killed 13 people and decimated the island’s primary power station at Vassiliko. The outage just before 1m on Friday was caused by a faulty transformer at secondary power station Moni
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Hellenic Bank reported net first half profits of 15 mln euros, a recovery from the 29.2 mln losses it reported in the same six-month period last year, and approaching the 2010 H1 profits of 16.7 mln. The island’s third biggest lender, that contained its exposure to the Greek debt market to a mere 110 mln
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* Higher writedown provisions in Greece push losses to 134 mln * Bank of Cyprus reported increased first-half losses of 134 mln euros on Thursday, hit by a Greek debt writedown and higher provisions for non-performing loans in Cyprus and Greece. The losses were higher than the 107 mln euros reported in the first half
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Cypriot retailer Ermes, operator of the Debenhams chain of stores on the island and part of the NK Shacolas dairy-to-telecom giant, has swung to a 2.5 mln euro first-half net loss on lower sales to recession-hit consumers. Ermes, which also runs a household items chain and is an affiliate of the operator of the island's
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Asian shares fell to four-week lows on Friday as investors cooled expectations that U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke will offer any signal of more monetary stimulus at a speech before fellow central bankers later in the day. European equities were expected to be marginally higher, with financial spreadbetters calling London's FTSE 100, Paris's CAC-40
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The European Central Bank should buy sovereign bonds of troubled euro zone states only if the International Monetary Fund is involved in setting the economic reform programmes that should be a condition for the intervention, a top ECB policymaker said. European Central Bank board member Joerg Asmussen said on Thursday the euro zone's bailout funds
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Pirates released a Greek-operated oil tanker seized off Togo on Tuesday after stealing 3,000 tonnes of fuel from it, with its crew unharmed.. The seizure of MT Energy Centurion, which is operated by Golden Energy Management, underscored the growing risks to shipping in the Gulf of Guinea, where piracy is rising but still not as
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Greece's stock exchange suspended trading in shares of state-controlled bank Hellenic Postbank on Thursday following a nearly 30% plunge in its shares after the government said the lender could not survive on its own. Winding down the deposit-rich Postbank, in which Greece holds a 44% stake, has been a government priority as it tries to
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