European and Asian stock markets are expected to fall sharply today in the wake of the Friday's terror attacks in Paris.
The Guardian cites analysts who predict that European markets will drop by 2% today, with the French market expected to take the biggest hit.
“The tragedy has a lot of people asking questions, at a time when markets are already starting to look vulnerable after a strong October,” Chris Weston, chief market strategist at Investors Group said.
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An interim management statement from FBD says that it believes that Ireland's insurance industry will be loss making until at least the end of 2016.
"Despite this, industry profitability continues to be challenging, and the group believes that the industry will continue to be loss making for 2015 and 2016," it said.
After posting a €4.5m loss last year, the company says that it is currently prioritising profitability over volume growth.
Policy volumes are down by 9.2% so far this year - but it says that this has been off-set by average rate increases of 9.1%.
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Portuguese Prime Minister, Pedro Passos Coelho has been accused of attempting to stage a "constitutional coup," by pushing for early elections, rather than allowing a leftist coalition to come to power.
Last week his government collapsed 11 days after the country's elections, when his government received a vote of no confidence.
Portugal's president, Aníbal Cavaco Silva will ultimately decided if the left wing coalition can take power - he has previously said that he will block the creation of a leftist government formed from a number of socialists groups.
If the new government cannot be formed - elections will take place in April of next year.
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Japan has returned to recession, its economy contracted by 0.8 in the third quarter, when compared to the same period in 2014.
The country has been one of the pioneers of quantitative easing - the mass buying of bonds as a means of stimulating its economy, but this has failed to create sustained growth.
The government is now under pressure to introduce new stimulus measures.
