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AFP - London shares closed sharply higher Friday, getting a boost from gains on Wall Street as investors bet that a very weak US jobs report would prompt more interest rate cuts.
AP - The European Union is calling for a 100-day deadline for world leaders to decide global finance reforms, French President Nicolas Sarkozy says.
AP - France is pressing for Spain to be included in next week's international finance summit in Washington.
AP - French President Nicolas Sarkozy says it would be difficult to exclude Spain from next week's global finance summit.
AP - Zsolt Kerecsen, a 34-year-old software developer with three kids and a mortgage, is no high roller. But like thousands of other middle-class Hungarians he gambled by borrowing to buy a home in Swiss francs.