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Record German yields seen short-lived as economists predict jump

  Bloomberg Germany’s 10-year bond yields are set to climb from the all-time low reached last week, according to economists surveyed by Bloomberg. Benchmark yields fell to a record 0.009 percent on Friday. While economists have reduced their year-end yield estimates since January, they don’t foresee that level as sustainable. The median forecast of 19 economists in a Bloomberg survey …

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Putin could sketch deal on Europe gas link in talks with Juncker

  Bloomberg Jean-Claude Juncker and Vladimir Putin may offer clues about the way forward for a controversial project to expand Russia’s gas interconnections with Europe this week. The European Commission president meets the Russian leader at a conference in St. Petersburg and may discuss ways a Gazprom PJSC-led consortium could be allowed to double the capacity of the Nord Stream …

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London’s FTSE 100 faces rival index from Kansas

  Bloomberg The 32-year-old FTSE 100 Index, synonymous with the U.K. stock market, is about to get some competition. The benchmark’s four-letter moniker is local shorthand for laypeople and professionals to describe the daily gyrations of the nation’s $3.3 trillion equity market. Now, Lenexa, Kansas-based rival Bats Global Markets Inc. is now trying to muscle in on the FTSE 100’s …

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