BitGou: Morning Digest: EU talks up Spanish banks package, markets skeptical

2012年7月10日星期二

Morning Digest: EU talks up Spanish banks package, markets skeptical

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07/10/2012

Reuters Election 2012 Daily round-up of the day's top news from the campaign trail, the White House and all the politics in between

EU talks up Spanish banks package, markets skeptical

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Euro zone ministers struggled to reassure financial markets on Tuesday that an aid package for Spain they outlined overnight will help stabilize the currency bloc - a task made all the harder by a German legal challenge to its crisis-fighting tools..

Sanctions squeeze forces Iran to cut oilfield flow

LONDON (Reuters) - Tough Western sanctions are forcing Iran to take drastic action and shut off wells at its vast oilfields, reducing production to levels last seen more than two decades ago and costing Tehran billions in lost revenues..

Stock index futures point to lower start

(Reuters) - Stock index futures pointed to a lower open on Wall Street on Tuesday, with futures for the S&P 500 down 0.4 percent while the Dow Jones and Nasdaq 100 contracts were down 0.3 percent at 4.16 a.m. EDT..

Tom Cruise, Katie Holmes wrap up speedy divorce

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Hollywood superstar Tom Cruise and actress Katie Holmes settled their divorce on Monday, taking less than two weeks to end a nearly six-year marriage that captivated the world and prompted questions about raising their daughter in the Church of Scientology..

Lance Armstrong suit against anti-doping agency hits roadblock

(Reuters) - A federal judge swiftly dismissed a lawsuit on Monday that retired cycling champ Lance Armstrong had filed in a bid to stop the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency from proceeding with a case charging him with using drugs during the years he won the Tour de France..

New Zealand court delays Megaupload extradition hearing to next year

WELLINGTON (Reuters) - A New Zealand court has delayed an extradition hearing for internet tycoon and Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom until March 2013 because of questions about the search and seizure of evidence by the United States where he faces charges of internet piracy and fraud..

"It's a boson:" Higgs quest bears new particle

GENEVA (Reuters) - Scientists at Europe's CERN research center have found a new subatomic particle, a basic building block of the universe, which appears to be the boson imagined and named half a century ago by theoretical physicist Peter Higgs..

Batman could fly, but he'd crash and die

LONDON (Reuters) - Holy crash landing Batman! The crime-fighting caped crusader could fly but if he did, he would smash into the ground and probably die, a group of British physics students have calculated..