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IRELAND, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Greece News, Aug 17, 2011


Euro bonds: Magic bullet for debt crisis?
CNNMoney
But higher rates in Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Spain and Greece are troubling. A euro bond could help push rates lower. NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Many key European nations share a common currency, but not a common debt load. That has to change. Now. ...
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Sarkozy and Merkel Call for Closer Euro Coordination
Ocala
As Mrs. Merkel arrived at the Élysée Palace, she and Mr. Sarkozy faced mounting pressure to forge a joint approach to a widening economic crisis that has already engulfed Ireland, Greece andPortugal and threatens to pull in Spain and Italy as well. ...
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Berlusconi Embraces Tax Hikes to Save Italy
The New American
Unlike the relatively small economies of Greece, Ireland and Portugal, Italy has one of the largest economies in the world and the fourth largest in Europe. Anything approaching a meltdown in that country would ripple across Europe. ...
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Smallest Yield Curve Gap Between US and Japan in 19 Years Confirming Deflation
The Market Oracle
The austerity measures in Italy, Greece, Ireland, Spain, and Portugal will turn the recession into a mighty one. Spain and Greece are clearly in recession now, the rest of Europe will soon follow (if it is not in recession already). ...
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Banks' exposure to stressed countries amounts to 24 per cent of their capital
Times of Malta
It covers Greece, Ireland, Portugal and Spain. Domestic banks are largely exposed to private sector bonds and interbank loans with exposure to sovereign debt amounting to about 11 per cent of exposures in the stressed countries. ...
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A Reason For The August Stock Market Crash, Oct Pending
Daily Markets
We know folks in Portugal, Ireland and Greece took their funds out of their banks and purchased gold, Swiss franc and Yen. But things just moved to defcon 2, Italy and Spain banks have deposits falling, the money is finding other 'non Euro' safe places ...
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Enough stimulus already
Prince Albert Daily Herald
The reason why Greece, Ireland, Italy, Portugal and Spain are in such awful financial shape is because the governments of those countries spent far more than they brought in over many years - a decades-long stimulus plan, if you will. ...
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Warning from Europe
Town Hall
Terrible riots in Britain, Greece and France, along with potential financial collapse in Italy, Ireland,Portugal and Spain, show that even the most lavish entitlements can't buy prosperity or peaceful streets. As Europe tries to balance its books, ...
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Research and Markets: Insulin - Global - Overview of the Actual Situation ...
SunHerald.com
... Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldova, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Ukraine, the United Kingdom, Armenia, ...
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Will USA and EU succeed in putting S&P, Moody's and Fitch in their place?
«Market Leader» - news and previews making you rich.
After the incident with France's credit rating the French joined the army of “Big 3” haters (Greece, Portugal , Spain , Ireland, Italy). According to an independent survey conducted by the French tabloid «Liberation», the respondents blame the agencies ...
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Eye of the Storm
IBTimes Canada
Each bailout only multiplies spreading the infection to other nations New worries of a third bailout forGreece, another for Ireland, Portugal, Italy, Spain and now with France only proves the inability to fix the economic problems. ...
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U.K. Debt Plan Can't Cover All Its Sins
Wall Street Journal
It's also got its own currency, so, unlike the travails of Greece, Portugal, Ireland, Italy or Spain, its woes don't require the endless fearful summitry of a disapproving euro zone, where progress comes in tiny increments if at all. ...
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COLUMN: Benny and 'The Beast' — An economic allegory
Destin Log
It's not just the economic problems of the PIIGS (Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece and Spain). The market tumbled on Wednesday, Aug. 10 over worries that France would suffer a downgrade and lose its AAA debt rating. A bigger issue is this: when will ...
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Six Steps To Financial Doomsday STEP #2: Government Debt Exploding!
istockAnalyst.com (press release)
Now, with Europe's economy slowing, the tax revenues needed to service all of that debt are disappearing. The economies of Greece and Portugal have been in recession for some time now. Growth in Spain and Italy is virtually non-existent. ...
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Motor Vehicle Engines - Global
PR Newswire (press release)
... Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iran, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Lithuania, Macedonia, Malaysia, Mexico, Morocco, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, ...
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“Dear Investor, Please Shut Up”
Daily Reckoning - Australian Edition
About €420 billion of that is already committed to Portugal, Ireland, and Greece. That leaves €300 billion. And that used to be a lot of money. --But it's not nearly enough to cover the refinancing needs of Italy and Spain. Those two counties require ...
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Tuesday Bounce? Merkel-Sarkozy Meet Unlikely To Deliver
Forbes
German officials have already hinted that a eurobond to save Greece, Portugal, Italy, Ireland and now, Spain, is off the table. “The only results of these meetings will be vague statements that will try to buy some time while northern European nations ...
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Stocks Retreat After Merkel, Sarkozy Disappoint
KETV Omaha
The long-running debt crises in Greece, Portugal and Ireland accelerated in the second quarter, and investors are also worried that Europe's larger economies -- including Spain and Italy -- may need to be bailed out. "The data confirm that the region's ...
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10 U.S. - Listed European Dividend Stocks Yielding 6% or Higher
Seeking Alpha
But its actual exposure to Greece, Ireland, and Portugal, is limited and the company has completed marked-to-market its peripheral bond portfolio. Operationally, increased focus on profitability is paying off, especially at the non-life business. ...
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When governments can't print money: Swaminathan s Anklesaria Aiyar
Economic Times
That has been disproved in the case of Greece: it can still get euros but not without limit, and only subject to stringent austerity conditions. Portugal and Ireland are in similar straits. And if Spainand Italy get into similar trouble, ...
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Growth Concerns Take Center Stage
Daily Markets
But with the debt crisis steadily moving from the peripheral nations of Greece, Ireland and Portugalto now Spain, Italy and even France, it's time may finally have come. Growth is the best antidote to the debt problem that has taken hold in the ...
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Bankruptcy practices brace for European defaults
Thomson Reuters News & Insight
If you have a real default in Europe -- Greece, Italy, Portugal, Spain or Ireland -- that will impact the banks over there. That'll impact the banks here because they all have loans to each other. Reuters: So what will that mean for US businesses? ...
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US debt rating downgrade was overdue
Dearborn Press and Guide
More and more Americans can see that we are starting to look like Greece, Ireland, Portugal,Spain, Italy and a banana republic. Tea Party people are not kooks and they certainly are not terrorists. We should all be thankful that at least some people ...
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Bailouts - and the protestant ethic
Moneyweb.co.za
The southerners are Greece, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Ireland (the last geographically mislocated). Some Francophobes would group France in the romance group, but it is joined at the hip to Germany as a bailouter, and thereafter indisputably is a ...
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Google Scares the Bears Away - Now What?
Seeking Alpha
The pessimists among us might think the two countries will talk about bailing out of the European Union itself, and letting the currencies of the PIIGS (Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece, and Spain) sink or swim. That will probably not happen, ...
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Gilead Sciences, Inc. (GILD) Given New $53.00 Price Target by Deutsche Bank ...
NewsyStocks.com
The Company has sales operations, with marketing subsidiaries in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, ...
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Will SocGen smash the market snowball?
Business Spectator
It's therefore no surprise to discover that it owns the majority of a Greek bank and has a big exposure to bonds issued by Greece, Portugal, Ireland, Italy and Spain. The New York Times says that in the latest Greek bailout, Société Générale was among ...
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Global Slowdown Underway – It's More than the Japanese Supply Chain Disruptions
EconoMonitor (blog)
The PIIGS countries – Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece, and Spain – necessitate strong external demand from the core countries (Germany and France) and from outside the euro area in order to successfully deleverage amid sharp fiscal retrenchment. ...
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Foreign exchange regime most credible among alternatives - CBJ chief
Jordan Times
... the European Union is still facing difficulties caused by the near-default of Greece and the continuously rising worry about the health of the economies of other troubled European nations such as Ireland, Portugal, Spain and Italy,” he indicated. ...
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June surplus for external trade in Euro area & deficit in EU27
Gozo News
... followed by the Netherlands (+20.2 bn) and Ireland (+16.9 bn). The United Kingdom (-46.7 bn) registered the largest deficit, followed by France (-38.5 bn), Italy (-20.3 bn), Spain (-20.1 bn),Greece (-8.2 bn) and Portugal (-7.6 bn). ...
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Keizai Group – Equity Markets Hit By Broad Selloff
Market Press Release (press release)
... has expanded to engulf core members, Italy and Spain. Both countries have seen the cost of borrowing on the international bond markets soar in recent days getting tantalizingly close to the 7% that forced Greece, Ireland and Portugal to capitulate ...
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Britain's Chancellor, The "Moneymen", and The Cuts
Huffington Post
The figures for youth unemployment (16 to 24-year-olds) currently are: US 20%, UK 20%, Greece36%, Spain 44%, Ireland 29%, Portugal 28%, and Italy 29%. An economic model that consigns large numbers of fit young people to the scrapheap is not fit for ...
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A financial storm gathers: one we can weather
On Line opinion
The living-beyond-one's-means disease has claimed Greece, Ireland and Portugal, whose economies are now being bailed out by the richer members of the EU, principally Germany and France, who have long been the mainstay of European integration. ...
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Euro zone economy slows as core states stumble (Reuters) | Stock ...
By Editor - Business News
The picture was equally grim for the region's high debtors — particularly GreeceItalySpain,Portugal and Ireland — where little or no growth means make debt-cutting targets will be even harder to achieve as tax revenues shrink and welfare payments rise. ... That may sound contradictory, but the two are mutually reinforcing,” Lagarde wrote in the Financial Times newspaper ahead of the data. There was little sign of growth anywhere in the bloc from Tuesday's reports. ...
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Global markets at peril again | Set You Free News
By Renata
Ireland was a bright enough examples showing that when EU governments attempt to save banks that have gone broke then have to face a confidence crisis. Taken cumulatively, the debts of Greece,IrelandPortugalSpain and Italy amount ...
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