https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Sweden in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed By lending money to multinational defence firms, Swedish banks are supporting the existence of nuclear weapons, the only weapon of mass destruction which is yet to be banned, according to a new report published on Thursday. https://www.thelocal.se/20131010/50712 Thu, 10 Oct 2013 14:51:00 +0200 50712 Swedish retailer Hennes & Mauritz on Thursday reported a fall in fourth quarter profits on the back of rising cotton prices and the weak euro. https://www.thelocal.se/20110127/31674 Thu, 27 Jan 2011 12:28:00 +0100 31674 The financial crisis is over in Sweden, Nordic financial services group Nordea declared in a report on Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.se/20110119/31524 Wed, 19 Jan 2011 14:24:00 +0100 31524 The number of Swedish children living in families that depend on long-term financial benefits has increased by around 10,000 in just over four years to about 54,000 children, government agency figures show. https://www.thelocal.se/20101125/30426 Thu, 25 Nov 2010 15:20:00 +0100 30426 Disgruntled savers from a small Swedish community flooded into a Jönköping court on Thursday to follow the case of Habo Finans, an investment firm which folded taking the savings of almost 780 people with it. https://www.thelocal.se/20100930/29342 Thu, 30 Sep 2010 14:41:00 +0200 29342 A 102-year-old woman in Halmstad in southwestern Sweden wants to get rid of the legal guardian that the municipality arranged for her against her will when it mistakenly assumed she had no living relatives. https://www.thelocal.se/20100730/28100 Fri, 30 Jul 2010 15:14:00 +0200 28100 The beleaguered Swedish currency continued its recovery on Monday as the cost of the euro slipped under 11 kronor to 10.99 kronor for the first time since mid-February. https://www.thelocal.se/20090316/18252 Mon, 16 Mar 2009 19:38:00 +0100 18252 Sweden's currency slipped to a record low against the euro on Friday, while also falling to a five-year low against the dollar. https://www.thelocal.se/20081205/16166 Fri, 05 Dec 2008 18:13:00 +0100 16166 The G7 group of leading industrialized nations agreed on Friday to take united action to tackle the financial crisis. Swedish bank SEB's leading economist is unimpressed by the plan. https://www.thelocal.se/20081011/14896 Sat, 11 Oct 2008 12:49:00 +0200 14896 OM Gruppen, owner of the Stockholm stock exchange, has held talks with its London counterpart in recent weeks about potential alliances, ranging from forming additional joint ventures to a full-scale £2.3 billion merger, British newspaper The Sunday Times has reported. https://www.thelocal.se/20050918/2111-3 Sun, 18 Sep 2005 18:44:00 +0200 2111-3