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Irish house prices rise

  Bloomberg Irish house prices rise to the highest since 2007 in June, matching the peak seen before the country suffered one of the worst property crashes in Western Europe. It’s taken over 15 years for prices to recover from the property crash that almost bankrupted the country, forcing it to seek an international bailout in November 2010. The national ...

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Argentina asks crop exporters to make $1b in sales next week

  Bloomberg Argentina’s government has asked the country’s crop export and processing companies to make sales equivalent to $1 billion over the next week as it seeks to bolster reserves. The government discussed with Ciara-Cec, a group that represents more than 40% of Argentina’s exports, a mechanism implemented this week that aims to encourage the sale of crops and bring ...

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S&P cuts Hungary’s outlook to negative

Bloomberg Hungary’s outlook was revised to negative from stable by Standard & Poor’s Global Ratings as the nation tackles the fallout from war in neighbouring Ukraine and government wrangles with the European Union over billions of euros in funding. The country’s credit grade was maintained at BBB, the second-lowest investment grade, S&P said in a statement. That matches the level ...

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