Ready for Webcast of the #ECB press conference 3 April 2014?

Press conference following the meeting of the Governing Council of the European Central Bank on 3 April 2014 at its premises in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, starting at 2:30 p.m.CET:

  • Introductory statement by Mario Draghi, President of the ECB.
  • Question and answer session. Registered journalists pose questions to Mario Draghi, President of the ECB, and to Vítor Constâncio, Vice-President of the EC

 

URL http://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/tvservices/webcast/html/webcast_140403.en.html

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Near-bankrupt #Chinese property firm offers lesson in lending risks

To understand why many of China’s small property developers are struggling, look no further than Zhejiang Xingrun Real Estate.

The once little-known regional developer is now on the brink of becoming one of China’s biggest real estate bankruptcies in recent memory.

As China’s property bubble shows signs of deflating in some areas – in peripheral neighborhoods in lower-tier cities – privately held developers like Zhejiang Xingrun are falling by the wayside, victims of a toxic combination of unjustified optimism about the property market and sky-high interest rates.

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