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2.  FTSE falls
 Oil and gold recover after China’s rate rise
 A new economics for the EU
 Conclusion

3.  FTSE = “The Footsie”
 lost 20.1 points, or 0.35%, to 5,727
 Increase their equity buffer
 The aim ?
 African Barrick Gold
 Vodafone Group

4.  Brevan Howard = one of Europe's biggest and
most respected hedge funds
 Hedge funds?

5.  China’s surprise decision to raise interest rate
 Oil price 80 $ a barrel
 Chinese growth?
 The actual impact of this rate
hike might be limited on the
overall growth story in China.

6.  Gold
 a recovering decrease of 2,5%
 Gold climbed to $ 1,341 an ounce
 after hitting two-week low of $ 1,334.45
Far below the all-time high of $1,387.10
Analysts conclude : it’s an excuse for profit-trading

7.  EU leaders = Should consider an economic/
investment strategy
 NOT austerity
 But Growth and employment
Two seemingly rival agendas
 Limit the increase of the union’s budget.
 Envisages a treaty change to impose tougher
sanctions on over-spending members of the
euro zone. = to prevent debt crisis

8. 1. EU leaders = Modify the composition of the
€140billion union budget
2. The 27 member-states = Expand the remit
and funds of ‘the European Investment
Bank’
3. The EU = starting with tough penalties for
banks that use public money for bonuses
As the world's single biggest economic space, the EU
could pioneer a new economic and financial settlement.

9.  Economy, money, finance,…
 Price in China increase ( )
Result = Price in Europe
 The stock exchange
= an impact on the
whole world

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