Monday, April 13, 2015

Today's Headlines

Bloomberg:   
  • Flareup in East Ukraine Fighting Sets Stage for Talks in Berlin. Fighting intensified in eastern Ukraine before the country’s foreign minister meets his counterparts from Russia, Germany and France for talks in Berlin on Monday. One Ukrainian soldier was killed and six wounded during the past 24 hours, Oleksandr Motuzyanyk, a presidential military spokesman in Kiev, told reporters on Monday. The number of rebels wounded in the clashes has tripled to an average of 15 a day in the last week, the separatist news website DAN reported, citing the acting director of a trauma center in Donetsk.
  • Greek Talks With EU Are ‘Very Complicated’: Dombrovskis. (video)
  • European Stocks Extend Record With Spanish Shares at 5-Year High. European stocks advanced for a fifth day, with Spanish equities jumping to their highest levels since January 2010. The Stoxx Europe 600 Index added 0.2 percent to 413.63 at the close of trading in London, after rising as much as 0.3 percent.
  • Budget Deficit in U.S. Widens as Spending Exceeds Record Revenue. The budget deficit in the U.S. widened over the first six months of fiscal 2015 as spending on Social Security and health services increased, a government report showed. Spending exceeded revenue by $439.5 billion from October through March, compared with a $413.3 billion deficit in the same period the prior year, Treasury Department figures released Monday showed. The shortfall in March was bigger than economists projected.
Fox News:
  • Rubio announces his 2016 GOP presidential campaign. (video) Florida Sen. Marco Rubio said Monday that he is running for president and feels “uniquely qualified” to talk about the future. Rubio, a Republican, is scheduled to make a full-scale announcement later today in Miami at an event before hundreds of supporters and that will include a video message. The first-term senator has long been assembling his political team, including donors who helped previous presidential nominees collect tens of millions of dollars. Now, Rubio's campaign kickoff formalizes what has been unfolding for months.
  • Why Marco Rubio has a real shot at 2016 Republican nomination.
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Xinhua:
  • China's Rail-Freight Volume Dropped 9% Y/Y in 1Q. Railways moved 870m mt of cargo in Jan.-March period, citing China Railway Corp.

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