"This could reflect some increase in risk tolerance with more positive investor sentiment generally in response to reduced uncertainties over the euro zone, " says Peter Damesick, chairman of research in Europe, the Middle East and Africa for CBRE.

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The city doubled the cordon zone in 2007 and reduced the enforcement period by one hour.

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The recent ECB and BoJ policy statements have reduced the likelihood of a Euro-zone rate cut and has increased pressure on Governor Shirakawa at the BoJ to take further action.

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The European Central Bank also on Thursday said it has reduced its economic growth forecast for the Euro zone, predicting zero growth in 2013 from its previous forecast of 0.3% growth.

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Drink-related anti-social behaviour in part of Stoke-on-Trent has reduced by over two-thirds after an alcohol restriction zone was introduced.

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Not least, he says that the impact of the outage could have been reduced if clients had been using more than one availability zone to run their cloud businesses.

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Nor is it the chancellor's fault if the unintelligent application of the euro zone's crude rules have, for now, reduced any chance of winning round the sceptical (and very constant) two-thirds majority in Britain who oppose euro entry although Mr Balls bullishly claimed a referendum could still be won if the economic tests were met.

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The outlook for the Eastern European economy was questioned after the International Monetary Fund this week reduced its growth assumptions for the region as the crisis in the euro zone home to some of its biggest trading partners continues to drag on.

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It again reduced its forecast for growth in the world economy, most markedly in the euro zone, Brazil and India.

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