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Oil prices and equity markets have moved in tandem in early 2016

The year has started with renewed worries about the health of banks, especially in Europe

Russia has submitted a renewed claim to seabed beneath the North Pole, which will be considered by the United Nations

With a stronger parliamentary opposition, it is difficult to see how the minority government will last the year

Global house prices have returned to their pre-crisis level

Russian interventionism abroad has encouraged Nordic countries to reassess their defence ties with the West

Nobel Prize winner Deaton has contributed to the understanding of consumer behaviour and inequality

Such parties are diverse, but inescapable in many West European states