U.S., UK back Berlin's G8 hedge fund initiative: paper
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Germany has won support from the United  States and Britain for an initiative to tighten controls on  hedge funds, a newspaper reported on Monday.
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Czech and Polish leaders back a US plan to install missile defence facilities on their territory.
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Hedge funds, known for flexing their financial muscles around the globe but still largely shut out of China, hope the quickening pace of Beijing's reforms will open new gateways into the world's fourth-largest economy.
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This fund combines the Pacific Rim and Europe.
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State-linked investment funds in Qatar and Singapore are interested in buying almost one third of the London Stock Exchange from the US Nasdaq market, British media reported on Monday.
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LONDON -- The United States has rejected Germany's bid to get the Group of Eight to agree to tough cuts in climate warming carbon emissions, according to a draft of the communique to be presented to next month's meeting.
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MOSCOW, Jun 7 (IPS) - Russian President Vladimir Putin is prepared to  reaffirm his disagreement with Washington's view of Russian  democracy, reiterate objections to the proposed U.S. missile  shield in Eastern Europe and give more meaningful explanations on  the rules of the international community at the Group of Eight  (G8) summit under way in Germany this week, analysts say.
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DAVOS, Switzerland  - The United States and other countries must not demonize sovereign wealth funds as they come to the aid of troubled U.S. banks, some of the world's biggest state-run investors said on Thursday.
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BERLIN -- Germany and the United States have agreed on a proposal to write off as much as 80 percent of Iraq's debt, Germany's finance minister said yesterday, capping a months-long US push for debt forgiveness.
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HEILIGENDAMM, Germany, Jun 4 (IPS) - Facing the probability that this year's G8  summit will be a failure -- mainly due to U.S. opposition to an  international consensus on environmental, financial, and African  cooperation issues -- the German government, host of the event,  is scaling down the expectations that it helped to stir in the  first place.
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HEILIGENDAMM, Germany  - The Group of Eight (G8) industrialized nations said on Friday it would back "further measures" against Iran if it does not comply with U.N. demands that it suspend its nuclear enrichment program.
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Leaders of the G8 powers will call this week for greater vigilance on hedge funds in the hope that the industry will take it upon itself to prevent accidents like the collapse of LTCM in the late 1990s.
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Around two in three Germans support Russian President Vladimir Putin's view that the United States is on a mission to become the world's "one single master", according to a poll released on Tuesday.
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BERLIN, Jun 4 (IPS) - Legislators from the G8 countries -- Britain,  France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Canada, United States and Russia  -- are hoping against hope that an historic breakthrough on  climate change will be achieved at the Heiligendamm summit this  week.
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Business & money: Â· Sovereign-backed firms go on a spending spreeÂ· Bush 'comfortable' with Dubai stake in Nasdaq
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LONDON, Nov 17  - US officials see a growing importance of the Group of 20 economic gathering and plan to use this week&#39;s Berlin forum to push pro-growth efforts, while hoping to avoid a row over the sagging dollar.
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The newly designated EADS chief executive said in an interview published Thursday he backed the introduction of &quot;golden shares&quot; to allow Berlin and Paris to veto strategic decisions at the European aerospace giant.