Globe and Mail
“The euro zone debt and banking crisis could be entering a fresh phase and the markets are particularly vulnerable to disappointment given there's seemingly no consensus in the EU about what to do resolve the crisis, as well as opposition to the ...
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FACTBOX-Possible successors to ECB chief Trichet
Reuters
... which has played a central role in responding to the euro zone debt crisis. European Union leaders must select a new ECB president "from among persons of recognized standing and professional experience in monetary and banking matters". ...
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Euro zone agrees funding for future bailout fund
Malta Business Weekly
Euro zone officials have promised to present a “comprehensive response” to the debt crisis by the end of March. The European Commission, the European Union's executive, and some Member States have been pushing governments to give the European Financial ...
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Germany's Economic Assertiveness Shakes Euro Zone
New York Times
Throughout last year's protracted debt crisis, Mrs. Merkel was largely on the defensive, unwilling to sanction a euro-zone bailout until the very last moment, when she could argue to Germans that action was vital to save the currency. ...
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Hopeful Signs for EU and Euro?
Right Side News
But he now believes that Spain will eke its way out of the debt crisis that Southern PIGS find themselves in. Evans-Pritchard believes that Spain's high savings rate, high investment rate and export efficiency is going to help that country overcome the ...
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Belgium Set To Break Iraq's Record For Government Deadlock
Wall Street Journal
So far the political crisis hasn't upset investors, who have kept Belgian borrowing costs reasonably steady. Yet the impasse comes amid the euro-zone debt crisis, which has seen other countries with a high debt burden and unstable governments suddenly ...
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MEPs angered by 'Franco-German approach'
EurActiv
At the last EU summit on 4 February, Germany and France tabled plans to harmonise tax and labour policies in the euro zone, saying the crisis had exposed the necessity to complete monetary union with an economic union. Ireland's super-low corporate tax ...
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China and Spain, fighting together against crisis
Dots Press
Late last year, Beijing was concerned about the ability of European states to fight against sovereign debt crisis and announced that he could invest currency reserves in the European Union. In this context, China has pledged to underwrite the issuance ...
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Euro left to meet in Athens, right in Helsinki
AFP
Conservative heads of government will be in Helsinki on March 4 to plot their response to Europe's debt crisis, amid growing criticism that the EU is acting too slowly in the run-up to a March 11 eurozone summit and a crunch March 24-5 summit of all EU ...
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Compounding Portugal's debt woes
Business Spectator
As its borrowing costs continue to grind higher, Portugal has reproached its fellow eurozone nations for their failure to find a solution to the region's lingering sovereign debt crisis. "Portugal is doing its job," complained the country's Treasury ...
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Belgium Weighs New Government Proposal
Wall Street Journal
Belgium's 10-year debt is 0.89 percentage point more expensive; at the end of April 2010, the spread was about 0.48 percentage point, though the euro-zone sovereign-debt crisis also played a role. On Thursday, Belgium passed Iraq for the record of the ...
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Van Rompuy seeks to silence euro critics
GFS News
Next month's meetings begin on 4 March with a eurozone debt crisis summit in Finland and include a eurozone summit in Brussels on 11 March. Eurogroup finance ministers will then meet in Brussels on 14 March ahead of a wider meeting of EU finance ...
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Markets of PIIGS Nations Outperforming US in 2011
CNBC.com
(Editor's Note: My colleague Simon Hobbs shares his insights on the challenges the EU faces in finding a solution to its sovereign debt crisis, before leaders meet at the end of March. He also notes that PIIGS have outperformed the US stock market. ...
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Eurozone economy grew tepid 0.3 pct in 4th quarter
BusinessWeek
The fourth quarter growth means that the eurozone expanded by 1.7 percent in 2010, way more than many people had expected a year ago, when Europe's debt crisis exploded with concerns about Greece's ability to pay off its mountain of debts. ...
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More euro trouble brewing in Portugal, Ireland as continent's ...
By Infowars Ireland
“The eurozone debt and banking crisis could be entering a fresh phase and the markets are particularly vulnerable to disappointment given there's seemingly no consensus in the EU about what to do resolve the crisis, as well as ...
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Why the Fed's in No Hurry | www.bullfax.com
By marketmaker
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) -- Joining the European Union's club of nations with a common currency has long been a goal of most EU countries still not using the euro. But in the wake of the eurozone's debt crisis, some outsiders are in less ...
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Goldman Bets Risk In US Debt Will Rise
By Barbara
And that is likely to put the U.S. Dollar under more pressure, much as the common currency Euro has been under fire as the Eurozone continues to deal with its debt crisis. Currently, the U.S. Dollar is trading flat against most of the ...
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As Greek economic output collapses, no wonder Portugal does not ...
By notayesmanseconomics
The annual deficit and the national debt are compared to an economic output (GDP ) which is now 6.6% lower than a year ago. Also the shrinking economy will mean that some tax receipts will fall such as VAT and income tax and as .... This entry was posted on February 17, 2011 at 11:11 am and is filed under Euro zone Crisis, General Economics, Greek Financial Crisis, UK Inflation Prospects and Issues. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. ...
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Germany Needs to Contribute More to European Bailout Fund; EFSF ...
By Mike Shedlock
Germany's contribution to a future mechanism to rescue troubled euro-zone countries will need to be higher than its contribution to the current bailout fund, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said Tuesday. ... Two weeks of reduced market panic, and the EU's political system is reverting to its default mode of complacency. The European Council's pledge to do whatever it takes the eurozone, and to agree a one-and-for-all crisis resolution mechanism is gradually ...
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Europe Revolts against Merkel's Euro-Zone Plan | Feltor's Blog
By Γιάννης Φαίλτωρ
In recent weeks, she and French President Nicolas Sarkozy had unveiled a long- term plan intended to provide a permanent solution for the ongoing euro crisis. But other EU member states feel overrun by the new German-French axis, and resistance to the ... Everyone had something to criticize, the long-time members from the West and the newcomers from the East, the small and the large countries , the debt-ridden southern countries and the fiscally disciplined northerners. ...
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Belgium celebrates "world record" in gov't talks | The Associated ...
By The Associated Press
17, 2011, marking 249th day of political crisis in Belgium. While politicians wallow in Belgium's longest political crisis which pits the leaders of 6 million Dutch-speaking Flemings against those of 4.5 million Francophones, ... "Concerns about Belgium's large public debt-to-GDP ratio, the third largest in the region, will probably not abate," Capital Economics wrote in an assessment this week. King Albert has already tasked the caretaker government of acting Prime ...
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Is the U.S. facing a productivity crisis? | Analysis & Opinion |
By Grant Surridge
Is the U.S. facing a productivity crisis? Feb 16, 2011 12:27 EST. Facebook; Twitter; LinkedIn. dominic barton | mckinsey | Newsmaker. Mercedes2.jpg Generations of Americans have clocked in to work each morning confident that their daily toils ... bernanke bonds crisis debt domiinique strauss-kahn pat garofalo michael moynihan dominic barton Dominique Strauss-Kahn dominique struass-kahn DSK DSKAsk EU euro Europe european debt crisis european soverign debt crisis euro zone ...
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The Fed Minutes Are Out, And GDP Outlook Is Revised Higher
By Joe Weisenthal
Issuance of commercial mortgage-backed securities increased in the fourth quarter of 2010 but was still only a fraction of its pre-crisis level. Rates on conforming fixed-rate residential mortgages edged down a bit during the intermeeting ... Financial market strains in the euro area continued during the intermeeting period. Greek, Irish, and Portuguese sovereign debt spreads over German bunds rose in December and early January as credit rating agencies downgraded the ...
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True Economics: 16/02/2011: Heading for another round of crisis ...
By Dr. Constantin Gurdgiev
True Economics Long Run Page. My blog page dedicated to long run research on Irish economy: Long Run Economics. A new post on Euro Area Banking Survey Results for July 2009 - Part 1 posted on August 09, 2009. National Debt Clock ... Superb analysis of the denial of reality that is going on in the EU corridors of power & in Ireland (here) One of the best articles on macro dynamics and the ways to read data on 'recoveries' based on 'bottoming out' of the recession (here) ...
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Juncker upbeat on euro, Greece | Athens News
THE EURO will survive the debt crisis and so will Greece, said the chairman of the eurozone finance ministers' council (Eurogroup), Jean-Claude Juncker, ...
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EU leaders to meet in Finland on debt crisis
BRUSSELS, Feb 15 (Reuters) - Finland has invited 14 European Union leaders, ... 4 to help prepare a comprehensive response to the euro zone debt crisis.
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Coming events in euro zone debt crisis
March 4 -- Fourteen EU leaders -- hosted by Finland -- meet to prepare a comprehensive response to eurozone debt crisis. -- March 11 -- Euro zone summit in ...
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