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IRELAND, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Greece News, Aug 26, 2011


Greece holds out for banks to ease terms
CBC.ca
Uncertainty over the ability of banks exposed to Greece and other debt-burdened European economies such as IrelandPortugalSpain and Italy to weather the crisis has weighed on the German stock market. Its benchmark index, the DAX, has fallen 25 per ...
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CBC.ca
German Bonds Rise for Second Day After Bernanke Speech; Greek Notes Gain
Bloomberg
The European Central Bank has bought government bonds in the past three weeks in a bid to stop the debt crisis -- which has engulfed Greece, Ireland and Portugal -- from spreading to Spain andItaly. Italian securities were little changed after the ...
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RBC Logs Second Loss in 18 Years on U.S. Charges
Wall Street Journal
"We feel pretty comfortable." The Toronto-based bank has a C$1.5 billion total exposure to corporate, sovereign and financial counterparties or borrowers in Spain, Ireland, Italy, Greece and Portugal. It has no sovereign exposure to Greece. ...
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Europa League group stage set
MiamiHerald.com
Placed in Group A, it faces Russia's Rubin, Greece's PAOK and Ireland's Shamrock. Shamrock is the first Irish team to play in the group stage of a UEFA event. Atletico was placed in Group I withItaly's Udinese, which qualified for the Champions League ...
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Vents from our readers
phillyBurbs.com
The Olympic competition for the Kicking The Economy Down The Road venue -- Portugal, Ireland,Italy, Greece and Spain, and the newest entry and its gold medal winner -- the USA. Government has systematically increased taxes so the middle class now ...
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Barclays CEO on European Banking Issue and US Growth
GuruFocus.com
At the end of June, it's record that the exposure of Barclays to Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece andSpain is at 11.61 billion pounds. Bob Diamonds said he's comfortable with exposure to Europe – essentially Barclays banking, retail and mortgage ...
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Europa League playoffs, second leg results
Yahoo! Eurosport UK
Vitoria Guimaraes (Portugal) 0 Atletico Madrid (Spain) 4 Schalke 04 (Germany) 6 HJK Helsinki (Finland) 1 Schalke 04 win 6-3 on aggregate. Panathinaikos (Greece) 2 Maccabi Tel Aviv (Israel) 1 Maccabi Tel Aviv win 4-2 on aggregate. ...
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A love affair with Hickory Motor Speedway
Hickory Daily Record
Liberal spending policies are killing the goose. Once the goose is dead, there will be no more golden eggs. This is exactly what has happened in the western European socialist democracies. Greece,Portugal, Spain, Italy, Ireland. They're all broke. ...
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Do Rating Agencies Cause More Trouble Than They Are Worth?
Seeking Alpha
Portugal and Greece have always been the weak links in Europe and to a lesser extent, so haveItaly, Ireland and Spain. At any time over the past 20 years, Greece could have been singled out to have its debt downgraded, so why now and why has Moody's ...
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Aflac Retains 'Neutral' Rating
Daily Markets
While the company has already cleaned out all its risk exposure in Greece at the end of the second quarter, it also reduced significant investments in Ireland, Portugal, Italy and Spain. We believe Aflac is quite capable of sustaining losses from these ...
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Standard & Poor's man behind US credit downgrade rejects blame for market rout
The Guardian
In Europe, investors are increasingly worried that eurozone leaders have been unable to contain the debt crisis that has swamped Greece, Portugal and Ireland and now threatens bigger, much harder to save economies such as Spain and Italy. ...
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The Guardian
We must amend the U.S. Constitution now
Arizona Capitol Times
Look at Greece, Ireland, Spain, Italy, France, Portugal and the United Kingdom — to name only a few prominent examples currently in the headlines. Each is struggling under the weight of government overspending. The point is that as long as ...
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Unsafe havens in irrational markets
Citywire.co.uk
If Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece or Spain (the Piigs) defaults, there will be a big knock-on effect to banks and governments throughout the world. Investors have been shunning bonds from the Piigs and buying bonds from supposedly safer countries ...
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Trips of Bulgarian abroad up by 6.3% in July – statistics
Focus News
Meanwhile, there is a decrease in the trips made by Bulgarian to: Ireland – 19.5%; Finland – 18.2%; Cyprus – 15.0%; Canada – 12.5%; Latvia – 11.6%; Malta – 7.8%; Portugal – 7.2%; and others. Trips made with the purpose of visiting, studying, ...
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Comic Volatility
Daily Reckoning - American Edition
You know, notwithstanding the ongoing meltdowns in Greece and Ireland…the various bailouts on the table for (or in the pockets of) Portugal, Spain and Italy…and the rapidly intensifying riots in the respective capitals of these nations and others ...
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UEFA draws 48 teams in Europa League group stage
Boston Herald
Group G: AZ Alkmaar (Netherlands), Metalist Kharkiv (Ukraine), Austria Vienna (Austria), Malmo (Sweden). Group H: Braga (Portugal), FC Bruges (Belgium), Birmingham City (England), Maribor (Slovenia). Group I: Atletico Madrid (Spain), Udinese (Italy), ...
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State Pension: Investment In Stockmarket Safe?/ 26.8.2011• Samir El-Alami ...
PensionCalculator.org
The debt problems that are surrounding Greece, Portugal and Ireland are also threatening to hitItaly and Spain. These are causing adverse implications to the UK, this includes those with pensions. Anyone with a stakeholder pension will have their ...
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“A Second Credit Crash is Now Distinctly Possible” | GoldAlert
By jturbin
The total exposure of the global banking system to GreeceIrelandPortugalSpain and Italy is over $2 trillion. French and Germany banks have very large exposures.” “If there are defaults, then these banks will need capital, most likely from ...
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