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EUROZONE Crisis News, Apr 23, 2012

Euro-Zone Crisis Funds Face a Market Test
Wall Street Journal
The world's finance ministers, who concluded meetings in Washington on Sunday, hope their new funds will convince investors that governments have the financial firepower to combat the crisis. The war chests could be used to provide emergency loans to ...
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Eurozone cuts deficits, total debt rises
USA TODAY
Yet despite these efforts, overall debt rose from 85.3% of GDP to 87.2% — the highest level since the euro was created in 1999. After a financial crisis that has now dragged on for nearly five years, Monday's figures underscore how difficult it will ...
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USA TODAY
Record Euro Zone Debt Makes the Crisis Messier
BusinessWeek
Debt, in short, takes away countries' fiscal wiggle room. That's why the European Union's report today on rising government debt in the single-currency euro zone is troublesome. The organization announced that the government debt-to-GDP ratio increased ...
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Euro-Zone Debt Crisis Spreads To Core On Political Woes
Wall Street Journal
The spreading of market tensions to even higher rated euro-zone government bonds marks another chapter in the debt crisis and reflects the waning capacity of countries in the common currency region to weather additional austerity measures.
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Eurozone cuts deficits but overall debt rises
Huffington Post
Yet despite these efforts, overall debt rose from 85.3 percent of GDP to 87.2 percent – the highest level since the euro was created in 1999. After afinancial crisis that has now dragged on for close to five years, Monday's figures underline how ...
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Euro zone slump deepens unexpectedly in April
Reuters
Global finance chiefs pressed Europe to put in place economic reforms needed to extinguish its sovereign debt crisis, with an increasing sense that the euro zone will have to do more to encourage economic growth instead of just cutting budgets.
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Stocks down on eurozone fears, political turmoil
San Jose Mercury News
The euro fell 0.5 percent against the dollar to $1.3131. Netherlands that highlighted the difficulty of using spending cuts to combat a crisis over too much debt in some countries—and raised the chance European leaders might find themselves ...
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EURO GOVT-Dutch debt leads broad sell-off as crisis spreads
Reuters
Data showing the euro zone's private sector shrank faster than expected in April added to the malaise, piling pressure on the region's fragile debt and pushing German Bund yields to record lows as investors sought safety in highly liquid low-risk bonds ...
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Politics, PMI amplify euro-zone debt fears
MarketWatch
The premium demanded by investors to hold peripheral as well as other so-called core government bonds, including French and Dutch debt, over Germany rose. “The flash PMI signaled a faster rate of economic contraction in the euro zone during April, ...
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CANADA FX DEBT-C$ rattled lower by euro zone concerns
Reuters
* C$ at C$0.9973 vs US$, or $1.0027 * Euro zone PMI, politics hit global markets * Bonds climb across curve By Jennifer Kwan TORONTO, April 23 (Reuters) - Canada's dollar weakened against its US counterpart on Monday, weighed down by soft commodity ...
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Euro zone woes sink stocks; dollar up
Reuters
The April PMI reports for the euro zone, Germany and France, which are a guide to future activity, pointed to a much faster rate of economic contraction across the debt-laden region than had been expected. US stocks fell sharply soon after the opening, ...
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Euro-Zone Crisis Live Blog: 'Holland Versus Hollande'
Wall Street Journal (blog)
The Netherlands has been a key ally of Germany and one of the most vociferous supporters of austerity since Greece's debt problems initiated theeuro-zone's debt crisis more than two years ago. But its economy is performing poorly and is expected to ...
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Eurozone crisis live: Dutch cabinet 'to resign' after austerity talks collapse
The Guardian
Helena Smith, our correspondent in Athens, has all the details: No country is more desperate for growth than Greece, the country that triggered the debt crisis. Presenting his economic policies to a nation now wearily preparing to go to the polls, ...
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The Guardian
Eurozone crisis live: Dutch PM 'to resign' after austerity talks collapse
The Guardian (blog)
The euro is also being hit by the triple-whammy of the Dutch political crisis, bad economic data (see 9.59am), and the French presidential election results (see 9.17am). It just hit a new 20-month low against the pound of 81.575p.
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The Guardian (blog)
Debt crisis: debt and deficit levels highlight eurozone's uphill struggle
Telegraph.co.uk
After a financial crisis that has dragged on for close to five years, Monday's figures underlined how difficult it will be for the eurozone to bring its deficits and debts back below the EU-stipulated limits of a deficit of 3pc and debt of 60pc of GDP.
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GLOBAL MARKETS-Politics, data revive euro zone fears; shares, euro hit
Reuters
... April 23 (Reuters) - Global equities and the euro sank on Monday as political uncertainties in Europe raised fears the euro zone debt crisis could spread to countries that had been thought to be safe and European economic data rattled nerves.
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TREASURIES-Euro zone political uncertainty bolsters bonds
Reuters
Problems in the euro zone also looked to move closer to the region's core as triple-A Netherlands fell into political crisis after a failure to agree on budget cuts. Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte resigned on Monday, but did not say whether elections ...
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Spain and EU deficit calculations add up
Reuters
The latest flare-up in the euro zone's debt crisis was partly sparked Madrid announcing it had inherited a worse-than-expected deficit from its predecessor. Some officials in Brussels had privately suspected the new government of Prime Minister Mariano ...
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Russia Finance Minister: Reasons For European Crisis Are 'Still There'
Wall Street Journal
By Erin McCarthy Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES The underlying reasons for the euro zone's debt crisis are still present and the situation there remains a concern for Russia, the country's finance minister said Monday. The European Central Bank's injection of ...
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ECB easing bets increase as euro crisis intensifies
Reuters
By Marius Zaharia | LONDON (Reuters) - Short-term euro zone interest rates are pricing in a rising chance that the European Central Bank may ease monetary policy further later this year as the sovereign debt crisis intensifies and the economic outlook ...
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Euro zone woes sink stocks; dollar up
Reuters
The April PMI reports for the euro zone, Germany and France, which are a guide to future activity, pointed to a much faster rate of economic contraction across the debt-laden region than had been expected. US stocks fell sharply soon after the opening, ...
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TREASURIES-Euro zone political upheaval bolsters bonds
Reuters
Spain's fiscal situation added to the worries about Europe, and Spanish 10-yeardebt yields rose above 6 percent. Spanish debt rates north of 6 percent are seen as unsustainable. Markets took direction from "overnight action in theeuro zone amid ...
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Euro Zone Annual Budget Deficit Down, But Debt Up In 2011
International Business Times
The figures underscore the difficulties in the path to Eurozone economic recovery. The EU target of 3 percent deficit and 60 percent of debt to GDP is still a faraway goal. "We're in a debt crisis. Eurozone countries have way too much debt.
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International Business Times
FOREX-Euro hurt by political and economic risk
Reuters
... The euro slid from two-week high against the dollar on M onday on concern the euro zone debt crisis could spread to European nations so far thought to be safe, with the economic outlook and rising political risks likely to keep it under pressure.
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TREASURIES-Euro zone political upheavals boost bonds
Reuters
* Political upheaval in France, Netherlands supports safety bid * Spanish benchmark debt yields at 6 pct seen unsustainable * Benchmark US yields touch lowest in nearly two months * Fed to meet this week, US Treasury to sell $99 bln of debt By Chris ...
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Euro crisis, NATO troops: Why French vote matters
Fox News
Here's why the race should matter to people outside French borders: EUROPE'S DEBT CRISIS France has one of the world's top 10 economies and is an engine of the eurozone, which is struggling to climb out of a debt crisis rattling markets worldwide.
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Wonkbook: Can a French Socialist save the euro zone?
Washington Post (blog)
Following a bitter campaign marked by opposing visions of how to steer France's debt-laden economy through the eurozone crisis, the Socialist challenger won 28.5 per cent of the votes, with 96 per cent counted, according to the interior ministry on ...
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Europe pressed for action to end debt crisis
Toledo Blade
The IMF panel said all advanced economies needed plans to rein in deficits, but it singled out the euro zone as crucial to revitalizing strong growth. The euroarea, the world's second-largest economic bloc, already has slipped into a mild recession, ...
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Debt Crisis: Europe Postponing Day of Reckoning? - Finance - CBN ...
Billionaire investor George Soros said recently the European debt crisis "is getting worse" and "could even destroy the European Union." Death of theEurozone. A credit downgrade here, a loan guarantee there -- what some economists believe will be the eventual death of the eurozone has been dragged out for months and even years ... But Morici said Europe could and should just give up the euro, even if it causes short-term financial chaos because it's already on the road to ruin.
CBN.com - CBN News
Will India contribute to European bailout? : Terminal 3
By Dipankar De Sarkar
(China) believes Europe fully possesses the wisdom and ability to appropriately address the euro debt crisis, and China has confidence in the economic andfinancial stability of the Eurozone.” Quite possibly what is happening is that these ...
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Euro Takes A Hit On Politics And Growing Debt Crisis Concerns
By NYFP
04/23/12 Political uncertainty in France and the Netherlands helped push theeuro lower this morning in the forex markets while eurozone debt crisisconcerns continue to rise as a result.
DailyMarkets.com
Eurozone in crisis: live coverage - Blogs - Financial Times
By Tom Burgis
14.50: The euro has been dragged down by investor concerns around the strength of the Spanish economy, the Dutch political crisis and some rather nasty manufacturing data. Here's the euro vs the .... The spread of yields on French 10-year bonds over their German equivalents climbed to 143 basis points, almost the highest since January, an indication that investors see French debt as increasingly more risky than Germany's, which is held as the gold standard for the eurozone.
The World
Eurozone crisis live: Spanish debt auction cheers markets after ...
... to the International Monetary Fund in an effort to prevent the euro debt crisis... risk of an escalating eurozone debt crisis remains, and that the globaleconomic ...
www.guardian.co.uk/.../apr/.../eurozone-crisis-japan-firewall-i...
Euro-Zone Crisis Funds Face a Market Test
The world's finance ministers, who concluded meetings in Washington on ...to governments in danger of debt defaults because of soaring borrowing costs.... the premise that crisis "bystanders" outside the euro zone could need more aid.
online.wsj.com/.../SB10001424052702303978104577359923...
Eurozone crisis: Spain under pressure amid fears debt crisis will ...
Spain under debt pressure amid fears euro crisis will spiral out of control ...Financial markets are higher today on relief Spain's debt auction didn't go any worse ...
www.thisismoney.co.uk/.../Eurozone-crisis-Spain-pressure-ami...
Euro-Zone Crisis Live Blog: 'Holland Versus Hollande' - The Euro ...
Real-time updates and analysis of Europe's debt crisis ... about the future commitment of one of the euro-zone's foremost proponents of an austerity agenda.
blogs.wsj.com/.../euro-zone-crisis-live-blog-holland-versus-ho...
The View of the Eurozone Crisis From China - Chicago Policy Review
His interest field lies mainly in budgeting, government and economic policies.... From 2001, when it entered the euro zone, to 2008, right before the crisis, the annual fiscal deficits in ... And in 2009, Greece's total debt took 115 percent of GDP.
chicagopolicyreview.org/.../the-view-of-the-eurozone-crisis-fr...
Spain, Italy slide further into euro zone crisis - Economic Times
LONDON: Spain's debt yields rose above 6 percent on Monday as investors worried about its budget deficit, knocking the euro and sending safe-haven German ...
articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/.../31349850_1_contag...
Eurozone crisis set to get worse before it gets better
The economic data from Italy and Spain over the coming quarters is almost certain to be ... Eurozone crisis: Troika's gunboats will get their way, at a cost... German acceptance that they will underwrite Med debt OR Break up of theEuro.
www.guardian.co.uk/business/.../eurozone-crisis-to-get-worse
Why the Eurozone Crisis Is Getting Worse - Slate Magazine
This led to a temporary reduction in the financial strains confronting the debtendangered countries on the eurozone's periphery (Greece, Spain, Portugal, Italy , ...
www.slate.com/.../the_eurozone_problem_s_will_get_worse_u...
Spain, Italy slide further into euro zone crisis - Business - World ...
... stoking fears of a new phase in the euro zone debt crisis as Madrid's budget ... just over 1.6 percent, the lowest since the height of the financialturmoil in 2008.
www.msnbc.msn.com/.../spain-italy-slide-further-euro-zone-cr...
Worst of euro zone crisis over - European Central Bank | BUSINESS ...
The worst of the euro zone crisis appears to be over and it is now up to ...Euro zone finance ministers agreed late last month to increase the financialfirewall ... to 700 billion euros to ward off a new flare-up of Europe's sovereigndebt crisis.
tvnz.co.nz/.../worst-euro-zone-crisis-over-european-central-ba...
Is Debt Forgiveness a Way out of the Eurozone Crisis? — Social ...
Nearly four years after the start of the global financial crisis, many are wondering .... Politics Tagged With: debt forgiveness, economics, euro,Eurozone, Politics ...
www.social-europe.eu/.../is-debt-forgiveness-a-way-out-of-the...
IMF Warns Debt Crisis To Persist In 2012, Prepares To Bailout Spain
The IMF is warning that the European sovereign debt crisis will continue ... the dire economic conditions of the eurozone will persist and the euro debt crisis will ...
blog.alexanderhiggins.com/.../imf-warns-debt-crisis-persist-20...
Apax Chief Sees Opportunities in Euro Zone Crisis - NYTimes.com
Apax Chief Sees Opportunities in Euro Zone Crisis ... private equity firm Apax Partners, is not optimistic about the Continent's debt crisis. ... A number of potential sellers, particularly in the financial services sector, are looking to offload assets.
dealbook.nytimes.com/.../apax-chief-sees-opportunities-in-eur...

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