News: 2014-05-01

BBC News – IMF approves $17bn Ukraine bailout package

Pro-Russian Separatists in Eastern Ukraine Seek Legitimacy Through Referendum – WSJ.com

How the Russian economy has taken a turn for the worse | Business | The Guardian

U.S. government says it lost $11.2 billion on GM bailout | Reuters

 Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac may need $190 billion in big downturn: regulator | Reuters

Take a pass on TBTF crapshoot: James Saft | James Saft

Martin Wolf proposes the death of banking

China PMI steadies, but doesn’t dispel growth worries | Reuters

Yangtze River Delta Leads Softening of Housing Market

BBC News – Brazil poor get welfare rise and tax cuts from Rousseff

BBC News – Brazil property prices: Fears of ‘bubble’ in home costs

Annual house price growth reaches double-digits – Telegraph

Chart of the day: US vs UK median real wage growth since 1988 | FT Alphaville

Young workers hit hardest by unprecedented fall in wages | Business | theguardian.com

Bloomberg’s folly : Columbia Journalism Review

We can learn a lot from how Denmark handled its crash – Independent.ie

AT&T Has Approached DirecTV About Possible Acquisition – WSJ.com

Box Might Put Its IPO Back In The Box | TechCrunch

No, business capital spending isn’t set to take off | Michael Santoli – Yahoo Finance

Kerry urges NATO members to increase defense budget – Xinhua | English.news.cn 

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