Pressure had been building on a number of fronts, but the issue which finally destroyed her was the yet-to-be-born euro. In the last weekend of October 1990, she travelled to a European summit in Rome, where Jacques Delors’ dream of European Monetary Union was high on the agenda.
World
The fall of Margaret Thatcher
Asian financial markets
CHICAGO (November 3, 2011) – Global hedge fund investors allocated over $1.4 billion in net new capital to Asian hedge funds in 3Q11 as global financial markets responded to developments in the European sovereign debt crisis and weakening economic growth prospects across developed economies, according to the latest edition of the Asian Hedge Fund Industry Report, released today by HFR, the global leader in the indexation, analysis and database management of the alternative investment industry.
HFRX Korea Index
Emerging markets hedge funds posted strong performance gains in October, reversing sharp losses from September as emerging market (EM) economies and assets continue to experience volatility relating to the European sovereign debt crisis. The HFRX Total Emerging Markets Index gained +4.1 percent in October following a decline of -5.0 percent in September; while intra-month volatility was even more pronounced in specific regions, including Latin America and Russia.
HFR Global Hedge Fund Industry Report
CHICAGO (October 19, 2011) – Hedge funds posted the fourth worst quarterly performance in industry history in 3Q11, as a combination of uncertainty regarding the European sovereign debt crisis and weakening economic data contributed to volatility across equity, credit, commodities and currencies. These performance declines reduced total hedge fund industry capital by $85 billion, according to today’s release of the HFR Global Hedge Fund Industry Report: 3Q11.
PKK burst into the Guardian London office
Group of Kurdish PKK supporters break in to Guardian offices in London today and Kurdish nationalists demanding greater coverage of Kurdish issues and creating a chaotic scene that briefly alarmed the Guardian staff in London. Regarding to many reports it was the second time this week that Kurdish supporters of the Kurdish Workers’ Party, or P.K.K knows as PKK which has been rocignized as terrorists group in Turkey by goverment.
Amy Winehouse found dead
Many news was about her troubled and many people know Amy Winehouse had a troubles in life however sad news in U.K. pop star Amy Winehouse was found dead Saturday in her London home, according to multiple British wire reports. Britain's Sky News reported that paramedics were called to her home at just after 4 p.m., but the 27 year-old was pronounced dead at the scene. Winehouse publicists in the U.S. and Great Britain have not yet responded to requests for comment. No reason has yet been cited as a cause of death.
Thomas can`t Cook
One of the biggest British travel group Thomas Cook plunged 27 per cent on Tuesday after it issued a gloomy profits warning blamed on weak consumer sentiment and ongoing unrest in the Middle East and North Africa. Thomas Cook's share price collapsed by 27.14 per cent to stand at 89.40 pence in London morning deals, as the group added that it would begin a wide-ranging strategic review of its struggling British division.
Biggest British Massacre
Regarding to British newspaper Daily Mail on 31st March 2011 Campaigners for fathers' rights branded an official review into family law a 'sham' and a 'cover-up'. The importance of maintaining relationships with both parents should be underlined in legislation, but there should be no guarantee of equal access to children when a relationship founders, it said.
Doing business in the UK
Holidays and all we need is holidays all over the World to get away from daily life stress and relax every year for 2 weeks at abroad or locally at home but now holidaymakers, already hit in the pocket by rises in fuel surcharges following the Libyan crisis, are likely to be spared further misery in Wednesday’s annual budget. After four increases in the Air Passenger Duty in three years it is thought that George Osborne is unlikely to add a further increase which hits what economists are calling the ‘squeezed middle’.
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