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IRELAND, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Greece News, Aug 11, 2011

In US Stress Tests, a Tool to Gauge Contagion in Europe
New York Times (blog)
According to a note from BernsteinResearch, JPMorgan had “less than $20 billion” in exposure toPortugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece and Spain combined. But that was going in the wrong direction, up from “less than $15 billion” at the end of 2010, ...
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Market Brief; Gold Price Highs
Beacon Equity Research
Portugal, Spain, Italy, Ireland, and, most severely, Greece, were all cause for concern within the Euro Zone. Now the US has its own debt fight to contend with. Raising the debt ceiling didn't solve the immediate issue of volatility. ...
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Q&A: Michael Lewis on the Future of Europe's Economy
Vanity Fair
When VF Daily caught up with Europe's least-welcome tourist to ask his opinion of Germany and the PIGS (Portugal, Italy, Greece, and Spain), the contagion in Europe had yet to spread—highlights from our chat: VF Daily: Where did the euro go wrong? ...
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Vanity Fair
Rethinking the modern welfare state by whatever name
Nassau Guardian
Several European countries such as Spain, Portugal and Italy are having trouble managing their debts. Other European economies such as Ireland and Greece have already been bailed out; but may still need additional help again soon. ...
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Pressure mounts on Merkel at home
BBC News
It was carried out on 4 and 5 August, before the European Central Bank (ECB) agreed to intervene in the bond markets to support Italy and Spain. Fewer than half of those surveyed supported the bailouts of Greece, Ireland and Portugal. ...
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BBC News
Big blow to Indian firms in Europe, finds FICCI
Express Buzz
With Greece, Ireland and Portugal already recipients of massive EU bailouts and Italy, Spain and Cyprus still on the verge of collapse, the EU and the European Central Bank are working “day and night” to prevent the fragile euro from being pushed ...
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Germany: Bearing The Burden Of A Broken Global Economy
Huffington Post
With Greece and Ireland in economic shreds, while Portugal, Spain, and perhaps even Italy head south, only one nation can save Europe from financial Armageddon: a highly reluctant Germany. The ironies—like the fact that bankers from Düsseldorf were ...
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Anxiety Hits Shares of French Banks
New York Times
“On the other hand, there was market noise about the PIGS and the United States before they were downgraded,” he noted, using an acronym for the European countries swept up in the debt crisis —Portugal, Ireland, Greece and Spain. ...
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Will the ECB intervene more aggressively from now on?
Balkans.com Business News
-The EFSF's current lending size is €440bn of which around €140bn are already spent on Greece,Ireland and Portugal. -So with €300bn left and daily interventions of around €2bn, it will take 150 days, or around 5-6 months until the capacity is reached. ...
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Spain and Italy showdown top bill in international week
Malaysia Star
Russia and the Republic of Ireland clash in a huge game in qualifying Group B on Sept 6, but before that Dick Advocaat's side host Serbia today while Republic of Ireland face Croatia in Dublin. Elsewhere, qualifying Group F leaders Greece travel to ...
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Markets rebound after US puts interest rates on hold
Radio Australia
We had financial contagion in Europe spread from Greece and Ireland and Portugal to Spain andItaly, sharply driving up their bond yields and raising concerns about if they'd also need to have a rescue package. So we've got a variety of events over the ...
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There Is No Recovery… It's All Been Just More Debt
Business Insider
Much of the rest of the world is being drawn in, with Greece, Ireland, Portugal, Spain, and Italyswirling ever closer to the drain. During the past two years, Americans bought an anemic recovery—a few hundred billion dollars' worth of GDP growth—but ...
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Jack Mintz: Fiscal crises must be fixed the hard way
National Post (registration)
Investors are on a roller coaster these days with bad US economic news and European sovereign debt woes in the PIIGS (Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece and Spain). In a recent paper for the University of Calgary's School of Public Policy, aptly called ...
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Grantham: European and American policy makers are clueless
Credit Writedowns
Forget the debt for a second: the current uncompetitiveness of Greece, Ireland,Portugal, Spain, and Italy did not occur quickly. It took 10 long and obvious years. They had to work at it. The cure was always going to cause a lot of pain and threaten...
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Credit Writedowns
The Greatest Depression
Bay Area Indymedia
Indeed so disruptively across Europe - in Greece, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Ireland, Britain and elsewhere with much more potentially anywhere for long denied social justice. On August 6, rioting began in Tottenham, North London after police shot and ...
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Bolton: Link Between Strong Economy and National Security Overlooked in Debt ...
Fox News
But by creating the euro, they subsidized, in effect, profligate spending policies we've seen inGreece, in Spain, Portugal, Ireland, maybe in the other countries, as well. So their whole largely political experiment to create the euro is in real ...
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CNBC TRANSCRIPT: CNBC'S MELISSA FRANCIS SPEAKS WITH JPMORGAN CHASE CHAIRMAN ...
CNBC.com (blog)
FRANCIS: RECENTLY ON A CONFERENCE CALL YOU SAID YOUR NET EXPOSURE TOPORTUGAL, ITALY, IRELAND, GREECE AND SPAIN WAS ABOUT 15 BILLION. THAT YOU'D LOSE 3 BILLION AFTER TAX IF THERE IS AN EXTREME OUTCOME, IS THAT ABOUT RIGHT. DIMON: WE STILL THINK THAT IS ...
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Global stock markets continue to tumble
Insideireland.ie
The other major market concern is Europe's debt crisis. Investors have grown increasingly worried that Italy and Spain could become the next EU countries to have to accept a bailout. Ireland,Greece and Portugal have already received bailout loans. ...
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Research and Markets: Central Heating Boilers - Europe - 2011 Report Provides ...
Business Wire (press release)
... Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldova, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Ukraine and United Kingdom. ...
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ASEAN needs to raise competitiveness to face world economic uncertainties ...
Xinhua
... for a double dip recession, and the downgrade of the US sovereign rating; while debt crisis in Europe had drawn anxiety of spreading to Italy and Spain, as there were still difficulties in managing the debt crisis of Greece, Ireland and Portugal. ...
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Joint Venture Announced by Elephant Talk and MECO
TMC Net
The initial focus of the Elephant Talk-MECO venture will be limited to ten countries. MVNE platforms will first be launched in Italy, Germany and the UK. MVNE platforms are expected to be completed in Switzerland, Portugal, France, Greece, Ireland, ...
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How to Profit from Swiss Central Bank's Efforts to Halt Rise of Swiss Franc
Benzinga
As for the euro, the currency is under pressure from traders who fear that a default by either Greece,Portugal, Ireland, Italy or Spain could lead to the demise of the European Union's currency. The Swiss National Bank plans to increase the supply of ...
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Downgrade Doesn't Matter as Bonds Show Fed Faith After S&P
San Francisco Chronicle
US bonds are still in demand at a time when Europe's sovereign debt crisis threatens to spread toItaly and Spain from Greece, Ireland and Portugal, and the global economy is slowing, damping the appeal of stocks. The MSCI World Index of equities has ...
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European Economic Confidence Fell in Third Quarter, Ifo Says
Bloomberg
“Current economic conditions were considered excellent in Germany and good in Austria, Finland and Estonia,” while the situation in Ireland, Spain, Portugal and Greece remains “very weak,” he said. Ifo surveyed 274 “economic experts. ...
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PepsiCo Joins Honda Bracing for Weak Demand
Bloomberg
Greece, Ireland and Portugal have been forced to seek aid from the European Union, and Italy andSpain saw borrowing costs soar last month. The scarcity of jobs is contributing to the crisis. While unemployment in the US has been above 9 percent for ...
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Relief Rally Pulverized As Market Pounds European Banks
Forbes
... in a sea of red as traders continue to doubt the European Central Bank and EU leaders have taken bold enough steps to keep the crisis afflicting Portugal, Ireland and Greece from afflicting Italy andSpain and ultimately the rest of the union. ...
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The predictability of uncertainty
SunLive (blog)
In Europe, the banks are under capitalised and the European Central Bank has its hands full with the fiscal plight of Portugal, Ireland and Greece. Now, Italy and Spain, the Eurozone's third and fourth biggest economies are causing real concern with ...
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Central Heating Boilers - Global
PR Newswire (press release)
... Ghana, Greece, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Iran, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Malaysia, Mexico, Moldova, Morocco, Netherlands, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Panama, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Singapore, ...
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Economy hammered by nationalisation calls - Dion George
Politicsweb
In Europe, the public finances of Spain, Portugal, Ireland and Greece could not withstand the pressure of the debt crisis and they came close to being unable to service their debt obligations. This is extremely serious given that sovereign debt is, ...
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Global economic jitters
Stabroek News
In Europe, on the other hand, although it is recognized that the offending countries – Ireland,Portugal, Greece Spain and Italy – have a long way to go in permitting a stabilization of their debt, and a resumption of economic growth, a more positive ...
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Market Volatility to Continue for Years: Towers Watson
On Wall Street
Third, as far as the Euro-zone crisis is concerned, Towers Watson sees the problems of Greece Ireland and Portugal spreading to Spain and Italy. Nonetheless, the July 21 European Union summit plan was a significant step in stemming such contagion. ...
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Diving stocks and market perception
Times of Malta
Briguglio said uncertainty still prevailed in the eurozone over whether the bailouts given to Ireland,Portugal and Greece would solve the problem as Italy and Spain also tottered on the brink of collapse. The European Central Bank on Monday intervened ...
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Debt, downgrade and Saudi Arabia
Arab News
The Jadwa report said new framework established by EU institutions to deal with the debt problems in Greece, Ireland and Portugal in late-July would be overwhelmed if it were extended to cover Italyand Spain given the far greater size of these ...
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Socialist Alternative
... the total of bail-outs already found for Greece, Ireland and Portugal. The ECB measure will ease the situation in relation to the debts of Italy and Spain. But the strings attached will bring them into head on confrontation with their populations. ...
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Markets volatile. Economy in the tank. Now what do we do?
Montreal Gazette
It was one thing when the European Central Bank, the International Monetary Fund, along with France and Germany, were bailing out Greece, Portugal and Ireland. But Spain and Italy are major economies - Italy is a G7 country. Sitting on his front porch ...
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Asian Stocks Rise as U.S Federal Reserve Vows Record Low Rates; BHP Jumps
Bloomberg
Stocks have plunged as the US economy showed signs of slowing and a European debt crisis has spread from Greece, Ireland and Portugal to Italy and Spain threatened to spill over into the banking system. Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) gained 2 ...
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MMT as an Alternative to Austerity
EconoMonitor
The biggest economy in the world can no longer afford its New Deal safety nets that are bankrupting the nation—soon to join the PIIGS (Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece, and Spain) with debt too big to service. There is an alternative view with a ...
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Four Actions the Global Community Must Take to Avoid Another Depression
New Republic
Europe would cauterize its debt crisis, which threatened the integrity of its common currency, by bailing out its small, insolvent countries (Ireland, Portugal, Greece) while relying on German growth and Franco-German leadership to pull it through. ...
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New Republic
Commentary: The right kind of chaos could save the country
Palm Beach Post
Europe's PIGS - Portugal, Ireland, Greece and Spain - are in slow-motion collapse. Would this be the case had the fight for fiscal rectitude been taken to the appropriate extreme 10 years ago? What of Italy? China, America's biggest foreign creditor, ...
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ANALYSIS: Crisis in the north sends shivers through Latin American
Monsters and Critics.com
In the eurozone, Greece, Ireland and Portugal have gradually fallen since last year to the need for bailouts, and the widening debt fears now threaten to engulf Spain and Italy. In Mexico, which is most at risk due to its very close economic ties to ...
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We've got beer - The Editorial Page
By webmaster@phx.com(EDITORIAL)
When news of this change became public, the foam flew. The well-intentioned but clueless regulators at the Alcoholic Beverages Control Commission took a dive and undid the damage they were about to unleash. ... The United States was only hours away from joining in the international community of deadbeats and bunko artists — think GreeceSpainItalyIrelandPortugal — when President Barack Obama signed the legislation raising the national debt ceiling and cutting ...
Boston Phoenix - thePhoenix.com
Hacker News | The bubble has burst.- Greece has defaulted. After ...
Greece has defaulted. After that, Italy/Ireland/Portugal/Spain/Austria/Belgium will soon follow, and France will be downgraded, and Germany will leave the ...
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News from AP | The Dallas Morning News, dallasnews.com
Italy and Spain are trying to avoid financial collapses like those that have forced Greece, Irelandand Portugal to seek bailout loans. ...
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Analysis: Europe's Leadership Forced to Pay Billions - Story ...
World News: Business — Once again Europe’s leadership has been forced to put ... UK, Syria, Somalia, Sudan, US, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Ireland, Greece, ...
www.buzzbox.com/news/2011-08-09/ireland:portugal/?...
Fears for Italy in eurozone crisis - Latest business, finance and ...
Find comprehensive financial news including business, property, pensions and more. ... Italy'sborrowing costs have risen above Spain's for the first time in more ... of the single currency zone, such as Greece, Ireland and Portugal. ...
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European Central Bank paralysis sparks global crash - Yahoo! UK ...
Yahoo! UK & Ireland Finance ... intervention by the ECB in sovereign bond markets so as to preventItaly and Spain going the same way as Greece, Ireland ( Berlin: IIK.BE - news) and Portugal, and that indeed is what Jean-Claude Trichet , ...
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