Irish Times
Senior figures in Portugal's minority socialist government have been making increasingly strong calls for a EU-wide response to the debt crisis, criticising “delays and hesitations” in talks on improving financial stability in the euro zone. ...
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Irish insight valuable to EU policy debate
Irish Times
This is the approach to the euro zone crisis called for by Simon Coveney in a speech last weekend to a group of students at UCC discussing the EU's democratic deficit. It succinctly captures an element not adequately debated in the election campaign. ...
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FOCUS: Bank Stresses Build For Euro
Wall Street Journal
Still, they indicate that traders and investors may be starting to shift their focus away from euro-area government debt strains and towards what's seen as a small but potentially catastrophic risk: a European banking crisis. ...
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Japan Vows To Continue Buying EFSF Bonds
Wall Street Journal
... Jones)--Japan's finance minister renewed his commitment Friday to assisting Europe's bailout efforts, saying Tokyo is going to buy more debt to be issued by the European Financial Stability Facility to fight the euro-zone sovereign debt crisis. ...
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Banque Postale Asset Management Buys Irish Debt, Betting on Euro Recovery
Bloomberg
“The optimistic side on the euro zone has become very strong for many weeks.” European Union leaders have given themselves until March 25 to craft what German Chancellor Angela Merkel has called a “comprehensive” package to address the financial crisis ...
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No Need to Panic About Europe Bank Borrowing Spike
CNBC.com
The last time requests for overnight funds totaled more than 10 billion euros was in the run-up to the Lehman crisis, peaking at 28.7 billion euros on June 24, 2009. More recently, it's been around one billion. But around 16 billion euros was borrowed ...
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European pacts: Time for an economic union
EurActiv
The Competitiveness Pact presented by the German government means, finally, the recognition that the eurozone crisis requires not just ad hoc but a more systemic solution. At the heart of this Pact, there is a very simple idea: if you want a stronger ...
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China Leads Fight Against West's Economic Formula in G-20 Scrap
BusinessWeek
“G-20 discussions to date have revealed a limited willingness of countries genuinely to coordinate over policies outside a global crisis,” Bank of England Governor Mervyn King said as the two-day Paris meeting got under way yesterday. ...
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G20 Source: Good Chance Of Accord On Indicators This Weekend
Wall Street Journal
He also said there has not been "a lot" of pressure on the euro zone over its debt crisis. The official also said there has been lively debate on developing a code of conduct on the use of capital controls but that discussions are still at a "very ...
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Gold to Resume Advance Amid Debt Concerns, Middle East Tensions
Daily FX
... pushing EU leaders to adopt a new crisis measurement at its summit next month. Failure to meet market expectations will not only send the euro into a free fall, but will also lead gold to push higher. Going forward, debt concerns in the Euro-Zone ...
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Stocks weighed down by latest China policy tighten, debt markets pressure Portugal
CanadianBusiness.com
Europe's debt crisis remains a hot topic of discussion too as Portugal's bond yields to near euro-era records. Eurozone ministers are expected to agree to an increased bailout fund starting in 2013, but analysts say that the crisis response — EU ...
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Belgium and Portugal fiscal crisis
Examiner.com
Days later Ireland agreed to a rescue by the EU and IMF or loans over 85 Billion Euros. The yield on Portuguese bonds has soared pass 7.63%, which makes debt repayment by Portugal very treacherous. Portugal's defict stands at 7% (depending on source), ...
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Big Greek bank plans stall as Alpha rejects NBG merger
AFP
The combined group would have a balance sheet of 200 billion euros, ranking thirtieth by assets and twenty-eighth by market capitalisation among European banks, NBG said. The Greek state, which is facing an unprecedented debt crisis that has affected ...
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Portugal's debt woes spell more trouble for Europe
Forbes
... billion) to settle outstanding debts in June, into a corner. The prevailing view is that the March 25 summit of EU leaders will have to come up with something big and bold on how to deal with Europe's debt crisis or else face the wrath of the markets.
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Warning lights ahead for stocks
National Post (registration)
“It doesn't take into account risks hovering over the euro zone sovereign debt problem and related risk on the banks. In the short term there's a money flow that could reverse,” he said. The euro zone sovereign debt crisis certainly is lingering, ...
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Friends of Italy must call time on Silvio
The Australian
While the Prime Minister prepares for a series of trials, Italy is beginning to look like one of the most vulnerable economies in the euro zone. It has a public debt of E1.7 trillion ($2.295 trillion), about 115 per cent of GDP. ...
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Debt reduction without default
Business Spectator
... maintained by other EU countries with strong fiscal adjustments) would send debt/GDP on a declining path. Having dealt with the emergency, a new Eurozone architecture can be constructed which enshrines the lessons learnt from the current crisis. ...
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Gold edges higher on debt, inflation concerns
Sydney Morning Herald
Gold rose above $US1,390 an ounce on Friday, notching its best weekly performance since December, underpinned by fears over a European debt crisis, rising inflation and growing unrest in the Middle East. over gold and sending the gold-silver ratio to ...
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INTERVIEW-German inflation a good thing -Ifo's Sinn
Forex Pros
European Union leaders hope to agree a comprehensive package of measures at a summit on March 24-25 to draw a line under the euro zone's year-old sovereign debt crisis. "The interest convergence which the euro brought had shifted too much capital in ...
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The IMF's new conditionality
Bretton Woods Update
IMF Staff Position Note. SPN 09/11. Woods, N. (2006) 'Understanding Pathways Through Financial Crisis and the Impact of the IMF: An Introduction', Global Governance 12, 373-393. 1 For instance, public debt service in Romania increased fourfold in 2009.
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China's tightening weighs on stocks
CBS News
... keeping a close watch on developments in Europe's debt crisis as Portugal's bond yields to near euro-era records. Eurozone ministers are expected to agree to an increased bailout fund starting in 2013, but analysts say that the crisis response ...
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EU ready to support Portugal if required - Barroso
stv.tv
Portuguese officials have said in recent days that it is up to Europe as a whole to resolve the debt crisis, sending the message that if the EU can agree on a "comprehensive package" to tackle the crisis by a summit set for March 24/25, that will help ...
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Grahnlaw: Euro crisis and eurozone economic governance: Third ...
By Grahnlaw
We look at the euro crisis, economic governance and the ”competitiveness pact” in the European Union, or more narrowly in the eurozone. BBC The BBC's Europe editor Gavin Hewitt described the ”grand bargain” between France and Germany, ... of wages to inflation and hardwire limits on government debt via constitutional amendments. Opposition to the ”competitiveness pact” is growing: Eurozone summit looms amid growing hostility to Franco-German pact (9 February 2011). ...
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Why the Eurozone rescue fund is large enough | www.bullfax.com
By marketmaker
Talks are accelerating that could see the eurozone's rescue fund given a wider remit in a bid to master a mercurial debt crisis and push national economies towards greater convergence. EU in talks to boost debt rescue fund (AFP) ...
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Euro crisis and eurozone economic governance: Second media roundup ...
By Grahnlaw
After the first media roundup, here is a second helping with media reports and comments as well as other online materials on the euro crisis, economic governance and the ”competitiveness pact” in the European Union, or more narrowly in ...
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The Rolling European Crisis — Crooked Timber
By niamh
The self-binding austerity politics now under way in the Eurozone also has some paradoxical features. The crisis has produced an explosion of fiscal deficits and an accumulation of sovereign debt. The ECB favours fiscal austerity to restore ... But there are plenty of good ideas around about what might be done, for example this call for a new direction from the next Irish government, recognizing that 'at its heart, the Euro is a political not an economic experiment'. ...
Crooked Timber - http://crookedtimber.org/
Portugal's debt woes spell more trouble for Europe | The Daily ...
By admin_blitz
Portugal's borrowing costs for its three-year government bonds stands at 5.6 percent — more or less the rate the International Monetary Fund and eurozone countries charged Athens and Dublin for their loans and making a bailout look more palatable for the Portuguese. ... The prevailing view is that the March 25 summit of EU leaders will have to come up with something big and bold on how to deal with Europe's debt crisis or else face the wrath of the markets. ...
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China's Tightening Weighs On Stocks - Money News Story - WISC Madison
Europe's debt crisis remains a hot topic of discussion too as Portugal's bond yields to near euro-era records. Eurozone ministers are expected to agree to an increased bailout fund starting in 2013, but analysts say that the crisis ... " Beyond debt sustainability concerns, the lower IMF-EU borrowing cost should look increasingly attractive to Portugal," Vamvakidis said. Indexes in Asia, which closed before China's announced policy tightening, performed much better thanks ...
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Obama's Louis XV budget | Brèves | LEAP 2020
By Washington Post
Global systemic crisis / World geopolitical breakup – End of 2011: Fall of the “ Petro-dollar wall” and a major monetary-oil shock for the United States LEAP/ E2020 is convinced that the current events in the Arab world, ... February versus 64% in January and 82% in December) believing that Eurozone economic governance will not be established by the end of 2011... (page 23) Subscribe Special subscribers' announcements GlobalEurope Euro-BRIC Seminar, Moscow, 23-25 May 2011 ...
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Realtime: Will the City of London Accept EU Financial Supervision?
Of course, much larger challenges loom ahead for London's EU policy. In the euro crisis, the UK currently behaves – unlike, say, Sweden or Poland – as if it could remain unaffected by the consequences of new economic governance ...
Peterson Institute Update - http://www.piie.com/
Pure FX Provide Specialist Guidance for Transferring Money Across ...
Nevertheless, the pound and the Euro are in a constant state of flux. As has recently been reported the Eurozone may be subject to a country-by-country economic crisis over sovereign debt issues following the Greek bailout in May 2010. ...
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European finance chiefs face renewed debt jitters - 24 Hour ...
European ministers face a potential flare-up in the euro's debt crisis when they ... centers on the eurozone's ability to deal with the existing crisis. ...
www.fresnobee.com/.../european-finance-chiefs-face-renewed...
Eurozone Meets to Discuss Debt | James McKee
One of the most unexpected glimmers of hope in the Euro-zone debt crisis is the ... throughout the EU to attend this Euro-zone crisis meeting in Helsinki to ...
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Eurozone debt crisis: The calm before the storm - Business News on ...
Eurozone debt crisis: The calm before the storm ... of the euro area but they are not a silver bullet to end the sovereign debt crisis once and for all." ...
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