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Indian inflation eased to 4.89 percent in April from a year earlier, Bloomberg TV India reported, citing people it didn’t identify.
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In Dublin, the epicenter of Western Europe’s worst housing-market crash, signs of life are emerging for those with access to cash.
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Ireland’s economy unexpectedly stagnated in the fourth quarter, as government and investment spending dropped.
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Permanent TSB Group Holdings Plc, the Irish lender owned by the government, said its annual loss more than doubled as dwindling gains from buying back its own debt outweighed a decline in provisions for bad loans.
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Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc has channelled the equivalent of almost a third of its 45.5 billion- pound ($69 billion) government rescue into bailing out its Irish division after real estate loans soured.
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Philip McDonagh, Ireland’s ambassador to Russia, said recovering assets related to the Quinn family may help trade relations between the two nations.
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Poland’s economy slowed less than economists forecast in the fourth quarter as exports helped offset weakening consumer spending, taming arguments for more interest-rate cuts.
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Euro-area services and manufacturing output contracted more than economists estimated in March, adding to signs the currency bloc’s economy is struggling to emerge from a recession.
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Irish payrolls grew in the fourth quarter for the first time in more than four years as employers hired more part-time staff and emigration reduced the number of unemployed.
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Home prices in Dublin rose for the first time on an annual basis since 2007, when Ireland’s decade- long housing boom peaked, according to figures released today by the Central Statistics Office.
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