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Tuesday, November 6, 2012

A look at the jump in oil and other futures Tuesday as US election results loom


San Francisco Chronicle

A look at the jump in oil and other futures Tuesday as US election results loom
Washington Post
The price of oil jumped more than $3 a barrel Tuesday as investors, along with voters across the country, await the results of the U.S. presidential election. It was the biggest one-day jump in a month. On the New York Mercantile Exchange: Loading.
Oil Prices Surge, Following Equities HigherNASDAQ
Brent steadies under $108; US vote, Greece in focusReuters
Oil Up With Wall Street as US Goes to the PollsCNBC.com
Wall Street Journal -RTT News -Bloomberg
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Country diary: Wenlock Edge: The circle of life keeps turning for cyclamen with a colourful past

Wenlock Edge: I imagine the story of this patch began with a handful of tiny corms from a bulb catalogue, planted to pop up pink each autumn. Those corms rolled out from a long history

Their name comes from the Latin cyclaminos and the Greek kuklos, meaning circle. Their story comes from warm dry forests of the Mediterranean. Their colour comes from an enduring optimism and an innocence of spirit toughing it out here in November woods. The cyclamen, much smaller than the showy potted ones in the grocers, have been in Britain since the 16th century and in this wood for more than a hundred years. They belong to the primrose family, which accounts for their irrepressible cheeriness, a pink note they strike at the end instead of the beginning of the year.

When I first found them about 20 years ago in the far corner of this little wood once used as a quarry for limekilns, the cyclamen were a single clump the size of a saucer. Since then, shaded by ash trees and hawthorns, their ivy-like leaves struggling through a thickening carpet of real ivy, the saucer-sized clump expanded into a coffee-table-sized patch, then, as it spread further, separated out into smaller pink dinner-plate islands in an ocean of glossy green.

The quarry was abandoned and there was a house here, abandoned a hundred years ago, too. Only the relics of a garden remain: a few conifers, some flowering currant bushes and the cyclamen. I imagine the story of this patch began with a handful of tiny corms from a bulb catalogue, planted to pop up pink each autumn. Those corms rolled out from a long history. Cyclamen were grown in the medieval gardens of Constantinople because they appeared so different from common flowers of the fields. The flower's circular "eye", formed by the fusing of upswept petals, peers earthward like a microscope. Its pink flushed with purple draws the human eye, especially in a season of grey skies and brown rot. Its evergreen, grey-enamelled leaves have neatness and precision. Now the cyclamen seem to belong here as much as the ash trees and, in these anxious shadows, may outlive them.


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Biden works Greek restaurant in Cleveland


Biden works Greek restaurant in Cleveland
Cincinnati.com (blog)
VPOTUS and the Biden women — Dr. Jill Biden, daughter Ashley and granddaughters Naomi and Natalie — mingled and sat for breakfast at the Landmark Restaurant, a Greek diner on St. Claire Avenue in Cleveland. Biden first entered the narrow diner side ...

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Greek politician's stance threatens vote


Kathimerini

Greek politician's stance threatens vote
Financial Times
Until two weeks ago Fotis Kouvelis seemed the least likely of Greece's fractious left-of-centre politicians to provoke a possible upset in a crucial parliamentary vote on Wednesday on the country's latest bailout package. The mild-mannered leader of ...
Forex Flash: Crucial Greek reform bills scheduled this week – NomuraNASDAQ
The Greeks Are on the Brink Once MoreBusinessweek
Dissent Hits Greek Coalition Before Austerity VoteMotley Fool
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GLOBAL MARKETS-US vote in focus, euro slips on Greece


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GLOBAL MARKETS-US vote in focus, euro slips on Greece
Reuters
European, world shares edge up ahead of U.S. election * Dollar index near two-month high * Greece worries push euro to two-month lows vs dollar By Marc Jones LONDON, Nov 6 (Reuters) - European equities edged higher on Tuesday helped by stronger ...
GLOBAL MARKETS: European Markets Treads Water; Fears About GreeceWall Street Journal
US vote in focus, euro slips on GreeceCNBC.com
Forex: EUR/USD above 1.2800 ahead of US and GreeceNASDAQ
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Greece precariously close to disorderly Grexit


Examiner.com

Greece precariously close to disorderly Grexit
Examiner.com
While the world is watching the US Presidential elections, Greece struggles with strikes on the streets of Athens and a palpable dissent in an already weekend Greek Parliament and edging ever closer to a disorderly default and exit from the Eurozone.


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Greeks strike over spending cuts before crucial austerity vote


Christian Science Monitor

Greeks strike over spending cuts before crucial austerity vote
Christian Science Monitor
Greeks strike over spending cuts before crucial austerity vote. The strike has brought public transport to a virtual standstill and shuttered schools, banks, and local government offices in Greece the day before Parliament votes on a new round of wage and ...
Strike hits Greece in bid to derail austerity planUSA TODAY
Greece protests grow before latest austerity voteThe Guardian
Athens starts countdown to bailout dealFinancial Times
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Astoria Characters: The Greek Dancer


Astoria Characters: The Greek Dancer
Huffington Post (blog)
Anastasia Tsantes stands on her feet all day. She's a waitress who's used to pulling 12- and 13-hour shifts. Yeah, working leaves her dog tired, but she's never too worn out to dance in the footsteps of her Greek ancestors. "The dancing, it comes from ...


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Ancient Greece comes to life at children's museum in Baltimore


Ancient Greece comes to life at children's museum in Baltimore
Washington Post
The way kids learned in ancient Greece from 800 B.C. to 200 B.C. is one of the fascinating parts of “Gods, Myths and Mortals: Discover Ancient Greece,” an exhibition at Baltimore's Port Discovery Children's Museum through January 13. Loading ...


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Oil Up With Wall Street as US Goes to the Polls


CNBC.com

Oil Up With Wall Street as US Goes to the Polls
CNBC.com
U.S. stocks extended gains, with both the Dow and S&P 500 up more than 1 percent, while the dollar edged lower against major currencies as investors booked profits on recent gains. President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney were ...
Brent steadies under $108; US vote, Greece in focusReuters
Crude Oil Surges To Settle Above $88 As US VotesRTT News
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GLOBAL MARKETS: European Markets Treads Water; Fears About Greece


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GLOBAL MARKETS: European Markets Treads Water; Fears About Greece
Wall Street Journal
By Andrea Tryphonides. Stocks were only slightly higher and gold and oil prices were treading water in early trading in Europe as investors waited eagerly for the U.S. presidential election to get underway while an auction of Greek Treasury bills will ...
Forex: EUR/USD above 1.2800 ahead of US and GreeceNASDAQ
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German Two-Year Notes Gain for Fifth Day Before Factory Report


German Two-Year Notes Gain for Fifth Day Before Factory Report
Bloomberg
Yields on securities from Spain and Italy dropped for the first time in three days amid optimism a Greek accord would boost demand for Europe's lower-rated assets. Austria's 10-year bonds advanced as it sold debt at record-low yields. German 10- year ...


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Greece general strike ahead of austerity vote


Greece general strike ahead of austerity vote
AFP
By by Katerina Voussoura (AFP) – 4 minutes ago. ATHENS — Tens of thousands of Greeks poured into the streets on Tuesday as mass strikes paralysed Athens in the latest show of anger over a new austerity bill aimed at securing international aid needed ...


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Greece: protests grow before latest austerity vote

As tens of thousands of people take to the streets, finance minister implores MPs to back €13.5bn package in parliament

Facing its greatest challenge since assuming power in June, Greece's fragile coalition government is heading for a cliffhanger vote on fresh austerity measures with the country paralysed by a 48-hour general strike. Tens of thousands of people took to the streets on Tuesday to protest over policies that have increased poverty and unemployment.

With Greece's eurozone future dependent on passage of the €13.5bn package, the finance minister, Yiannis Stournaras, implored wavering MPs to back the bill, saying it was the only way of assuring debt-stricken Athens did not default on its mountain of debt.

"The country has to adopt this package of measures to which it has committed to avoid bankruptcy," the technocrat told a parliamentary committee on the eve of the ballot. "We are now at the most crucial crossroads and we have to make the right decision. The road ahead is difficult and steep but it is our historic responsibility to complete the effort that we have begun."

International creditors at the EU and IMF say adoption of the budget cuts is crucial to releasing €31.5bn in rescue funds that are desperately needed by a state whose coffers are due to run dry by 16 November.

The country's embattled prime minister, Antonis Samaras, has pledged the measures "will be the very last" to be imposed on a nation whose disposable income has dropped by an estimated 35% since the eruption of Europe's debt crisis in Athens three years ago. But with pensions and wages set to be slashed, taxes increased and the retirement age raised, the promise has fallen on deaf ears with unions and anti-bailout forces, led by the radical left main opposition Syriza party, vowing to step up opposition on the street and in the corridors of power.

"At any moment there could be an eruption of blind violence," said Panos Skourletis, Syriza's spokesman. "Even if these measures are passed," he added referring to the package which is expected to be endorsed, if narrowly, by Athens' 300-seat house, "they will never be able to enforce them because Greeks are at the end of their tether."

Unionists described Tuesday's peaceful demonstrations – which drew as many as 40,000 people according to police – as a "dress rehearsal" for the fiery protests that would coincide with the vote on Wednesday.


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Russian, Azeri, Greek groups bid for gas firm DEPA


Russian, Azeri, Greek groups bid for gas firm DEPA
Reuters
ATHENS (Reuters) - Russia's Gazprom and Negusneft, Azerbaijan's SOCAR and two Greek consortiums have bid to buy Greek state-owned company DEPA, Greece's Privatisation Fund said on Tuesday. The Fund confirmed statements to Reuters on Monday ...
Gazprom, Sintez, SOCAR Bidding for Greek FirmThe Moscow Times

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Greece to Vote on $23 Billion in New Cuts

The new austerity measures, which include further cuts to pensions, civil service salaries and social benefits, are required to unlock $40 billion in rescue financing.

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Greek trade unions launch 48-hour strike over austerity plan


Greek trade unions launch 48-hour strike over austerity plan
News & Observer
ATHENS, Greece -- Tens of thousands of angry Greek strikers marched through Athens on Tuesday before a crucial vote in parliament on a new round of unpopular austerity measures. Finance Minister Yannis Stournaras urged parliament to approve the new ...


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Don't Forget Europe: Greek Euro Exit Possible As Athens Protests Austerity

Athens awoke to the sounds of protests on Tuesday as riot police secured the Parliament in Syntagma Square, where Prime Minister Samaras was trying to garner support to pass but one more austerity package in order to secure more bailout money from the troika.

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Long included in Ireland squad for Greece friendly


Long included in Ireland squad for Greece friendly
Irish Examiner
West Brom striker Shane Long has been included in the Republic of Ireland squad for next week's friendly against Greece after proving his fitness. The 25-year-old was not selected by manager Giovanni Trapattoni when he announced his provisional squad ...

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Greece Paralyzed By 48-Hr General Strike Over Austerity Plan


Greece Paralyzed By 48-Hr General Strike Over Austerity Plan
ForexLive (blog)
Greece Paralyzed By 48-Hr General Strike Over Austerity Plan. By Market News International || November 6, 2012 at 10:50 GMT. || 0 comments || Add comment. ATHENS (MNI) – Greece's private and public sectors were shut down. Tuesday by a 48-hour ...

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