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Friday’s market movers review (LYG, ALU, CRIC)

In this report: Llyods Banking Group (NYSE:LYG), Alcatel (NYSE:ALU) and China Real Estate Information (NASDAQ:CRIC).

Llyods Banking Group (NYSE:LYG) gained nearly 6 percent during trading on Friday as investors looking for underpriced investments stepped up and pushed European markets higher. …

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Euro posts gains against dollar while waiting on Slovakian vote

The Euro gained against other major currencies on Tuesday on optimism that lawmakers in Slovakia will pass a bailout fund this week. The country is the only one of the 17 euro members to have turn down a revamped bailout …

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Oil drops on OPEC report and Slovakian bailout fund vote

Oil dropped for the first time in six days on Tuesday as policy makers from Slovakia rejected a bailout fund that was aimed at helping the regions debt crisis. The country’s Prime Minister Iveta Radicova urged lawmakers to vote again …

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Oil prices rise as economy appears better than we expected

Oil gained over 2 percent on Thursday after improved economic news from the U.S. and Europe was released.

Two reports from the U.S. showed encouraging signs that the economy is doing better than we expected. The first was from the …

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Oil soars on hope of Europe containing debt crisis

Oil is trading more than 4.5 percent higher today as investors speculate that European leaders are nearing a plan that will see the regions debt crisis contained.

The hopes are that Greece will receive the next round of bailout funds …

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Yen slides against the dollar as Japanese policy makers step in

The Japanese Yen slid thursday after the Bank of Japan sold its currency in order to aid its economic recovery.

The Yen fell by 4.1 percent in early trading before it coming back later in the day.

The drop came …

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