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| US midday: Facebook flotation can't hide euro terrors | |
| -Euro fears dominate
-Facebook IPO raises 16bn but shares now flat |
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| London close: Footsie battered again | |
| Footsie finished not far off its low for the day after a lunch-time rally fizzled out. |
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| BoE´s Posen rethinks his position on quantitative easing | |
| In an interview with newswire MNSI Bank of England policy-maker Adam Posen indicates that his recent decision to drop his call for additional monetary stimulus may have been premature. |
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| Europe close: The slump continues | |
| - Greece continues to weigh down markets
- Investors react to Moody's downgrade of Spanish banks
- Concern over slowing growth in China |
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| Bonds: Yields level out as investors eye G8 meeting | |
| These were the yields and movements on some of the most watched 10 year bonds by the close in Europe: |
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| Facebook shows indicative price of 42 dollars ahead of open | |
| The NASDAQ stock exchange is pairing off orders for shares of social networking site Facebook in order to come up with an indicative price minutes ahead of its market début. |
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| US mid-morning: Market likes Facebook | |
| - Facebook rises in early trading
- Yahoo! wanted on rumours of Alibaba sale
- Bound yields rebound |