Brazil has stepped back from the brink: its currency and its bonds have rallied strongly, after its new centre-left government committed itself to tight fiscal and monetary policies.
Waved as a carrot in front of the government of the Israeli prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, the gesture was symptomatic of a process that has been distracted from its purpose to the brink of failure.
Thomas Cook is back from the brink, its chief executive Harriet Green has said, as the world's oldest travel agent announced its move back into profit following a near-collapse into bankruptcy two years ago.
The state may be back from the brink after its bailout, but its not yet business as usual, as the BBC's Europe business correspondent Nigel Cassidy reports.
Directed with soft-spoken assurance by James Houghton and acted with vital specificity by a cast led by Hallie Foote (the playwright's daughter) and Estelle Parsons, "Thorntons" looks at life from the brink of its end and finds it much as it always was, only more so.
Directed with soft-spoken assurance by Signature's founder, James Houghton, and acted with vital specificity by a cast led by Ms. Foote and Estelle Parsons, "Thorntons" looks at life from the brink of its end and finds it much as it always was, only more so.
Confirming its comeback from the brink of bankruptcy three years ago, Nissan also said it was advancing by one year its second three-year business plan.
America, however, appears unwilling to put pressure on the new military government immediately to set forth a programme of its aims and a means to lift its people from the brink of bankruptcy.
That could bring Britain back from the brink of its third recession since the financial crisis.
Cyprus needs as much as €17bn to pull back from the brink after its bloated financial sector was hard hit by the crisis in Greece.
