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, where gender equality and women's rights have become a pivotal topic in campaigning for national elections due on April 28.
Notably, the grouping - 70 percent of whose supporters are men - opposes a landmark law on gender violence that Spain passed in 2004 on the spurious grounds that it denigrates women as weak and defenceless. The selling spread across Asia, taking Japanese equities down 2 percent and a pan-Asian index down 1.5 percent. Europe iscut growth forecasts
Meanwhile, Cecilia Malmstrom, the European Union trade commissioner, said the EU is preparing a list of U.S.-manufactured products worth 22 billion eurosshould President Donald Trump move on with tariffs. The risk now is that ECB-induced euro depreciation will spark Trump’s ire. The dollar has inched down 0.2 percent this morning after rising overnight to the highest since mid-December. MSCI’s emerging currency index is down 0.3 percent. A strong jobs report later in the day would cement the dollar’s dominance.
. The prospect of low rates for longer heightens the pressure on banks and highlights the potential benefits of merging to protect margins.by plastics maker Berry Group, ditching an earlier – and lesser - offer by Apollo Global Management. RPC shares were seen down 2 to 3 percent, deflating as an end to bidding war excitement was in sight.
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