BERLIN – Nearly four in five Germans believe the euro will survive and more than half think Chancellor Angela Merkel is doing a good job of handling Europe’s debt crisis, according to a poll released Friday.
The ZDF television poll said 78 percent of respondents believe the euro — used by 17 nations — will survive and 18 percent say it won’t. That was much the same as a year ago — despite a worsening of the financial crisis that has now sucked in Italy, the eurozone’s third-largest economy.
Europe has already bailed out Greece, Portugal and Ireland but the Italian economy is considered for the continent to bail out.
The poll of 1,278 people, conducted by the Forschungsgruppe Wahlen institute Tuesday through Thursday, showed 56 percent think Merkel is doing a good job of crisis management and 33 percent say she isn’t. The mar
What is one of the top ways that luxury real estate marketing stands out from any other type of niche? If I could summarize this in one single word, it would be “lifestyle!” In order to truly gain the attention of your audience and make a lasting impression, you should certainly set this as a core focus of your marketing strategy.
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Posted in Personal Finance November 5, 2011 – 12:50pm, Bernard Hickey
US Bank Transfer Day campaign spreads to New Zealand on Guy Fawkes Day; NZ Association of Credit Unions eyes shift of customers from big 4 banks
A US campaign to transfer accounts out of banks into community owned financial institutions today has spread from social networks in America to New Zealand.
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On Tuesday, Nov. 8, Portland, Maine will hold its first mayoral election in 88 years. (The mayorship previously rotated between city council members.) But it’s going to be unusual for another reason: voters will use a ranked choice system, which means they have to list the 15 candidates in order of preference. An image of the ballot appears below. Heres the AP’s David Sharp reporting on the complexities:
The ballot is too complicated to be understood by the city’s voting machines, so only first-place votes will be announced on the night of the election, said Caleb Kleppner, vice president of TrueBallot Inc. The f
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A surprise indicator from the Japanese economy this morning revealed an employment sector growing modestly through the autumn months. Expectations were for a worsening of the unemployment situation in Japan due to the decline in manufacturing and industrial production lately.
The actual results produced a surprise uptick in optimism about Japan as unemployment fell this past month from 4.3% to 4.1%. The report tends to have less impact on the value of the JPY, though it is a significant indication of job growth in the struggling island economy.