Le président américain Barack Obama a dénoncé vendredi en des termes forts le chemin très inquiétant pris par son homologue turc et allié Recep Tayyip Erdogan en matière de liberté de la presse en Turquie.
Il n’y a aucun doute sur le fait que le président Erdogan a été élu plusieurs fois selon un processus démocratique mais je pense que l’approche qu’ils ont adoptée vis-à-vis de la presse pourrait conduire la Turquie sur un chemin qui serait très inquiétant, a condamné M. Obama, qui avait rencontré son homologue turc jeudi soir à Washington.
Les autorités turques sont accusées de dérive autoritaire et notamment de museler la presse d’opposition, en particulier avec la récente mise sous tutelle du quotidien Zaman.
Je crois fortement en la liberté de la presse. Je crois fortement en la liberté de religion. Je crois fortement en l’Etat de droit et la démocratie, a martelé le président américain.
Oui, mais les effets de cette croyance sont très sélectifs!
Bloomberg : les hedge funds accumulent les Treasuries; achats records
“Hedge funds are crowding into U.S. Treasuries, and that has bond traders bracing for more turbulence. While the Federal Reserve doesn’t break out hedge-fund ownership, a group seen as a proxy increased its holdings to a record $1.27 trillion in the past year… That came as foreign central banks and finance ministries, the biggest buy-and-hold owners in recent years, culled their investments for the first time on an annual basis since 2000… Hedge funds are also signaling their presence in the U.S. bond market in other ways. Since the end of 2013, investors domiciled in the Caribbean, a popular legal home for hundreds of hedge funds seeking lower taxes, have increased their holdings of Treasuries by 43% to $352 billion…”
“U.S. solar energy company SunEdison Inc, whose aggressive acquisition strategy has saddled it with almost $12 billion of debt, is at ‘substantial risk’ of bankruptcy
People’s Bank of China Governor Zhou Xiaochuan, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble and U.K. Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne will be among the policy makers meeting Thursday in Paris to discuss the world’s financial architecture. They will be joined by IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde, OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurria, and economists including the London Business School’s Helene Rey.
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