Aug. 13 - After a successful 2012 Olympics, the Dutch and French Olympic teams enjoy musical sendoffs before boarding Eurostar trains for home. Deborah Lutterbeck reports.
Aug. 13 (Bloomberg) -- Bloomberg’s Deirdre Bolton, Dominic Chu, Josh Lipton and Alix Steel report on today’s ten most important stocks including Standard Chartered, Google and Groupon. They speak on Bloomberg Television's "In The Loop."
Most people associate Bayreuth with the Richard Wagner Festival, which attracts thousands of Wagner-lovers from around the world to the Bayreuth Festival Theatre, the opera house he had built solely for performances of his operas. But Bayreuth has another opera house: the 18th century Margravial Opera House... Find out more: www.dw.de/dw/episode/0,,16107445,00.html
Eduardo Paes, mayor of Rio de Janeiro - the host city for the 2016 games - talks to the FT's Seb Morton-Clark about the challenges ahead and what the Brazilians have been learning from the UK's experience.
Thanks London, it was brilliant. That's the overwhelming feeling from the hundreds of thousands of people around the world who've appreciated the 2012 Olympic Games.
Aug. 13 - The Olympics has been hailed a major success in the UK and abroad but will a boosted Brand Britain make any difference to the country's economic prospects and were the Games worth their $14 billion price tag? Joanna Partridge reports.
Aug. 13 (Bloomberg) -- In today's "Off The Charts," Bloomberg's Scarlet Fu breaks down the cost in funding from the U.S. Olympic Committee per gold medal for individual sports and uncovers who spent the most money to come home empty handed. She speaks on Bloomberg Television's "Market Makers."
Aug. 13 (Bloomberg) -- Bloomberg's Scarlet Fu reports that U.S. markets are heading lower on the day while Japan saw a down market after reporting slower GDP in the second quarter as the yen falls against both the dollar and euro. She speaks on Bloomberg Television's "In The Loop."
http://www.euronews.com/ Japan's economy expanded by just 0.3 percent in the quarter from April to June compared with the first three months of the year.
That was just half the pace that economists had expected.
Growth from the same period last year was 1.4 percent.
The figures provide fresh evidence of a global slowdown hitting the United States, Europe and even China and economists fear the slowdown for Japan is not over yet.
http://www.euronews.com/ Deeper and deeper - Italy's public debt hit an all-time high in June of almost two trillion euros.
The figures were released by the central bank along with data that showed Rome's annual budget deficit was bigger than a year earlier.
The main reason for that was the additional money Italy is having to pay as its share of bailouts for other eurozone countries.
Italy's borrowing costs remain high.
Interest on its benchmark bonds is still close to six percent despite tough austerity measures introduced by Mario Monti's technocrat government.
The cost of shorter term borrowing is also creeping up.
Phổ biến ngày 13.08.2012
Thế vận hội London khép lại trong không khí tưng bừng với pháo hoa và những tiết mục biểu diễn hoành tráng tại Sân Vận động Olympic, ngày 12/8/2012