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French President Francois Hollande says no survivors are likely in the Alpine crash of a passenger jet carrying 148 people. The Germanwings passenger jet crashed Tuesday in the French Alps region as it …

Brent crude reversed early losses to trade back towards $57 a barrel on Tuesday, as a weaker dollar overshadowed signs of slowing growth in China and Saudi Arabian oil production close to an all-time high. Gains were capped by data showing factory activity in China, the world’s second-largest economy and top oil importer, slipped in March. The Chinese data followed comments from OPEC kingpin Saudi Arabia that it is pumping around 10 million barrels of crude per day, close to an all-time high and some 350,000 bpd above the figure it gave OPEC for its February output.

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Euro zone businesses ramped up activity this month, just as the European Central Bank starts printing money to spur growth and inflation, while a slowdown among Chinese factories has fueled calls for more stimulus there. By contrast, Tuesday’s surveys showed signs of an economic pickup in the troubled euro zone, just as ECB policymakers unleash a roughly 1 trillion euro quantitative easing plan. “I wouldn’t want to give QE too much credence at this stage.

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Federal Reserve policymaker James Bullard said on Tuesday that zero percent interest rates were no longing appropriate in the United States, and that a rate hike in the summer would still leave policy extremely accommodative. “Zero is no longer the appropriate interest rate for the U.S. economy,” Bullard said during a panel session at London City Week. Monetary policy would still be “extremely accommodative” even if the central bank began with a small increase in rates “sometime in the summer,” he added. The Fed is inching towards its first interest rate hike in almost a decade.

An Airbus A320 has crashed in Southern France, French President Francois Hollande confirmed Tuesday.

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