Bloomberg.com Region - Italy News http://www.bloomberg.com Bloomberg LP en-us Financial News Nov. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Italy’s benchmark FTSE MIB Index gained 282.83, or 1.3 percent, to 22,205.28 in Milan. The gauge fell 1.4 percent this week. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601092&sid=awklCDfqhoRU&refer=italy http://data.bloomberg.com/bb/rssstory?sid=awklCDfqhoRU Fri, 27 Nov 2009 11:45:13 EST Financial News Nov. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Jose Barroso picked Spain’s Joaquin Almunia to be the European Union’s antitrust chief and France’s Michel Barnier to lead a push for tougher bank regulation on a new team that will manage the EU’s $15 trillion economy as it emerges from the recession. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601092&sid=akC.FlTDOrog&refer=italy http://data.bloomberg.com/bb/rssstory?sid=akC.FlTDOrog Fri, 27 Nov 2009 10:20:58 EST Financial News Nov. 27 (Bloomberg) -- UniCredit SpA’s “exposure” to Dubai World, the government investment company with $59 billion of liabilities, is “not material and therefore not relevant,” Italy’s biggest bank said in an e-mailed statement today. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601092&sid=avq.kzxuF1WU&refer=italy http://data.bloomberg.com/bb/rssstory?sid=avq.kzxuF1WU Fri, 27 Nov 2009 08:20:36 EST Financial News Nov. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Italy is setting aside 400 million euros ($596 million) to sustain production at Fiat SpA’s car factory at Termini Imerese, Industry Minister Claudio Scajola said in a letter published in daily Il Giornale. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601092&sid=a15O.GGRNsL4&refer=italy http://data.bloomberg.com/bb/rssstory?sid=a15O.GGRNsL4 Fri, 27 Nov 2009 07:06:56 EST Financial News Nov. 27 (Bloomberg) -- European stocks advanced, rebounding from the biggest drop in seven months for the Dow Jones Stoxx 600 Index, as concern over Dubai’s attempt to delay its debt payments abated. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601092&sid=ad9Gn4o30PgA&refer=italy http://data.bloomberg.com/bb/rssstory?sid=ad9Gn4o30PgA Fri, 27 Nov 2009 12:49:58 EST Financial News Nov. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Italy’s Antitrust opened a probe into the country’s banking association and managers of Italy’s cash card network, or Bancomat, to examine their fees, it said in a statement on its Web site today. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601092&sid=alwuXzlsQHzQ&refer=italy http://data.bloomberg.com/bb/rssstory?sid=alwuXzlsQHzQ Fri, 27 Nov 2009 11:08:45 EST Financial News Nov. 27 (Bloomberg) -- European confidence in the economic outlook improved in November to the highest since the collapse of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., suggesting the recovery in the 16-member euro region is gathering strength. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601092&sid=a7Apkq26MVvs&refer=italy http://data.bloomberg.com/bb/rssstory?sid=a7Apkq26MVvs Fri, 27 Nov 2009 05:40:25 EST Financial News Nov. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Mariella Burani Fashion Group SpA said in a statement late yesterday that it doesn’t rule out the possibility of seeking protection from creditors. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601092&sid=aaj_SzHgn0Q4&refer=italy http://data.bloomberg.com/bb/rssstory?sid=aaj_SzHgn0Q4 Fri, 27 Nov 2009 02:46:17 EST Financial News Nov. 27 (Bloomberg) -- The worldwide decline in equities spurred by Dubai’s efforts to reschedule its debt is a sign that government spending alone won’t be enough to protect financial markets, according to Arnab Das of Roubini Global Economics. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601092&sid=awbY8oOeJUbk&refer=italy http://data.bloomberg.com/bb/rssstory?sid=awbY8oOeJUbk Fri, 27 Nov 2009 00:04:42 EST General News Nov. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Pledges by China and the U.S. to set numerical targets for their greenhouse-gas emissions through 2020 may reignite stalled progress for a global climate agreement at negotiations next month in Copenhagen. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601092&sid=aKYc2l_FiYZM&refer=italy http://data.bloomberg.com/bb/rssstory?sid=aKYc2l_FiYZM Fri, 27 Nov 2009 11:52:37 EST General News Nov. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Italy will probably reinforce its military presence in Afghanistan, Defense Minister Ignazio La Russa said, as the U.S. presses its allies for more troops to combat the Taliban. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601092&sid=aKo.2txHPl90&refer=italy http://data.bloomberg.com/bb/rssstory?sid=aKo.2txHPl90 Fri, 27 Nov 2009 03:32:16 EST General News Nov. 27 (Bloomberg) -- The Vatican’s failure to cooperate with a panel investigating the sexual abuse of children by priests in Ireland is “very regrettable,” said an auxiliary Roman Catholic bishop of Dublin, Eamonn Walsh. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601092&sid=aijpbVzZXvKI&refer=italy http://data.bloomberg.com/bb/rssstory?sid=aijpbVzZXvKI Fri, 27 Nov 2009 07:13:25 EST