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Paris stocks wobble, euro falls on France budget standoff [Video]

Paris stocks wobbled and the euro fell Monday as a budget standoff in France fuelled concern about the eurozone’s second-biggest economy. Positive data from China helped boost equity markets elsewhere, with Germany’s DAX index hitting a record above 19,900 points. Oil prices rose on hopes of higher Chinese demand. The euro sat near 14-month lows

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French PM faces ouster as opposition vows no-confidence vote [Video]

France’s Michel Barnier faced an abrupt end to his premiership Monday after key opposition parties said they would back a no-confidence motion against his government after only three months in power. Certain that the National Assembly would deny him a majority backing the government’s social security financing plan for next year, Barnier forced through the

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Paris stocks waver, euro falls on France budget standoff [Video]

Paris stocks wavered and the euro fell Monday as a budget standoff in France fuelled concern about the eurozone’s second-biggest economy. Positive data from China helped boost equity markets elsewhere, with Germany’s DAX index hitting a record above 19,700 points. Oil prices jumped more than one percent on hopes of higher Chinese demand. The euro

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French PM at risk in hostile parliament vote [Video]

France’s Prime Minister Michel Barnier faced being deposed by a hostile parliament Monday when his government presents a social security financing plan that has the opposition up in arms. The conservative Barnier, who formed a minority government in September after an inconclusive general election, lives under the constant threat of a no-confidence vote that could

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Frances PM risks tumbling in hostile parliament vote [Video]

France’s Prime Minister Michel Barnier faces the biggest risk yet of being deposed by a hostile parliament as his government presents Monday a social security financing plan that has the opposition up in arms. Barnier, a conservative appointed by President Emmanuel Macron in September after an inconclusive general election, has no majority in parliament and