DAWN.com
Between them Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece and Spain hold some 3233 tonnes of gold, worth some 132 billion euros ($190 billion). Their combined outstanding public debt, according to estimates from the IMF, is around 3289 billion euros. ...
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August saw big moves in bond yields - and Ireland was a winner
Irish Times
An emergency summit of EU leaders was hastily convened, and its decisions on the bailout interest rate terms and mechanisms on July 21st saw yields fall sharply in Greece, Ireland and Portugal, but provided only temporary relief for Spain and Italy. ...
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EURO DEBT SUPPLY-Italy, Spain face rough ride to meet funding goal
Reuters
... Italy and Spain face a tough task in securing funding for the rest of this year and may have to rely on shorter-term borrowing and support from the European Central Bank in secondary bond markets to meet their targets. Greece, Portugal and Ireland ...
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Euro Crisis Back in Focus as Greece Troubles, ECB Decision Ahead
DailyFX
On the sovereign side, we have skipped Ireland and Portugal and are watching Italy and Spain whose debt has had to find significant support from the ECB (in the form of active buying) to prevent the inevitable push to a bailout. ...
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Spain, Italy set to clinch Euro 2012 places
Los Angeles Times
Russia host Ireland in Group B, having moved two points clear of their opponents and Slovakia at the top of the group on Friday. Group F leaders Greece visit Latvia while Croatia, one point behind, host Israel, whose chances nose-dived in Friday's 1-0 ...
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Italy Living on Borrowed Time
Wall Street Journal
At the time, fears of debt-crisis contagion from relative minnows Greece, Portugal and Ireland were threatening to strand the whales of Spain and Italy. Investors were worried that the euro zone's €440 billion rescue craft, the European Financial ...
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Is The World Economy Headed For A Double Dip?
Seeking Alpha
Banks in sixteen European countries 4 report a total exposure to Italy and Spain of $1.8 trillion, and an additional $900 billion exposure to Greece, Ireland, and Portugal. Moreover, banks in eight major non-European countries, 5 including the United ...
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Italy, Spain aim to follow in Germany's footsteps
Fifa.com
Italy and reigning European champions Spain can join Germany in qualifying for the UEFA Euro 2012 finals by winning on home soil on a busy Tuesday of international action. Germany - beaten finalists in Vienna in 2008 - made sure of their place at next ...
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Europe: Not That Bad Actually
Moneyshow.com
But Italy is a different story. With a government debt-to-GDP ratio of 119% at the end of 2010, the country faces the second-largest debt burden of the fiscally weak PIIGS (Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece, and Spain). To worsen matters, Italy is the ...
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Cyprus 0-2 Portugal (Cristiano Ronaldo) Goal!
YouTube
... 3 - 0 Guinea Djokovic - Nadal 6-2, 6-3 Germany v Chile Spain v Argentina Italy v Netherlands Greece v Ukraine Republic of Ireland v France Portugal v Bosnia-Herzegovina Barcelona vs Real Madrid el classico camp nou 29-11-2009 cristiano ronaldo vs.
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One Big Reason Confidence Continues to Suffer
Wall Street Journal (blog)
... Stability Report (GFSR), uses credit default swap prices to estimate the market value of government bonds of the three eurozone countries receiving IMF bail-outs – Ireland, Greece and Portugal – together with those of Italy, Spain and Belgium. ...
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Fiscal responsibility: it starts with you and me
Montreal Gazette
The troubled economies of Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece and Spain have economists questioning the viability of the European Monetary Union. Outlandish profits by US investment banks from sub-prime mortgages become massive losses absorbed in ...
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| Is the World Economy Headed for a Double Dip? Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Banks in sixteen European countries 4 report a total exposure to Italy and Spain of $1.8 trillion, and an additional $900 billion exposure to Greece, Ireland, and Portugal. Moreover, banks in eight major non-European countries, 5 including the United ... See all stories on this topic » |  Carnegie Endowment for International Peace |
RBS and Lloyds lead charge as FTSE gains
Financial Times
With domestic lenders trading at about half their tangible net asset value, they could afford to write off half of their exposure to Italy, Spain, Ireland, Portugal and Greece combined, Deutsche said. The broker also argued that capital deficit fears ...
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Euro-Area Retail Sales Unexpectedly Rose in July on France
Bloomberg
In Spain, sales held steady, while in Portugal they jumped 2.5 percent. The statistics office didn't provide figures for Italy, Greece and the Netherlands. Greece, Ireland and Portugal have all received external aid.
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| Spain's bold move to limit its debt Christian Science Monitor That was a precondition set by Germany, which bankrolls around a third of Europe's bailouts, and other richer northern European countries before they committed to rescuing peripheral economies such as Greece, Portugal, and Ireland. Italy and Spain are ... See all stories on this topic » |  Christian Science Monitor |
Soft and hard default scenarios draw closer for Greece
Kathimerini
This may eventually lead to a market differentiation between Greece and the rest of the eurozone periphery, namely Portugal and Ireland, on one hand and isolate it from Spain and Italy as well. There is no doubt that Greece's problem was a complex one ...
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Baltics Are Model for Europe Debt Crisis, DnB's Bjerke Tells Ir
Bloomberg
... magazine Ir. In 2009 there were worries that the Baltic states had the potential to set off a crisis in central Europe, when no one was speaking about Spain, Portugal, Italy, Greece or Ireland, the Riga-based magazine quoted Bjerke as saying. ...
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| Rome Needs a Holiday From Politics Wall Street Journal Italy escaped the sovereign storm in 2010 because unlike Greece, Ireland, Portugal and Spain, it didn't overspend in the crisis, its banking system is sound, and household debt is low. As a result, the latest austerity package totals just 2.9% of gross ... See all stories on this topic » |  Wall Street Journal |
Forget the Smart Money; These Stocks Are Still Losers
Motley Fool
... defaults by the likes of Greece, Spain, Italy, or Portugal start flowing through the system. And the sector's recent stock market performance reflects this massive risk. Over the past year, the Bank of Ireland (NYSE: IRE ) is down almost 90%, ...
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Time To Look At The White Swan Over The Valley
Seeking Alpha
And who had heard of Venizelos (Greece), Noonan (Ireland), Tremonti (Italy), Salgado (Spain), Gaspar (Portugal), et al. We called them the PIIGS for some, the Old Continent for others, but we could not really tell the difference between the ECB, ...
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Franklin's Lugo Steps In as Others Flee Peripheral Euro Stocks
Bloomberg
Bailouts, austerity plans and surging bond yields have prompted investors to flee markets in Spain, Portugal, Italy, Greece and Ireland, also known as Europe's peripheral nations. Equity indexes in those five countries have fallen 19 percent on average ...
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Nathan Farrugia steps up training ahead of Kinder European Endurance Challenge
DI-VE
He will be flying out to the more distant countries including Cyprus, Ireland, Portugal and Spain and the UK. Each 42.2km marathon will be run on a specific route in a major city where he will be accompanied by local running clubs as a show of ...
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Euro favorites nearing qualification
ESPN (blog)
Russia hosts Ireland Tuesday and it can make a giant leap toward wrapping up its group. • Italy moved inches closer to clinching its group after beating the Faroe Islands Friday. It wins 99.8 percent of Group C simulations. ...
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EURO GOVT-Bund slumps on higher equities, mixed US data
Reuters
"We've seen ECB purchases didn't work with (Greece, Ireland and Portugal), so they're just buying time. Longer-term it's not a sustainable situation." Traders said the ECB was in the market again on Wednesday after heavy buying in the wake of Tuesday's ...
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Unemployment Rises in Spain
Voice of America
Spain, like a number of European nations, is struggling with a major public deficit. Greece, Portugal and Ireland have already had to borrow money from their euro neighbors in order to avoid defaulting on their debts. It has not yet come to that in ...
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Finland Could Upend Fragile Consensus on Greece
New York Times
But Germany, the Netherlands and Austria — all wealthy countries with strong economies — also harbor deep opposition to bailing out Greece, Portugal, Ireland or any other country that may become overwhelmed by debt. Finland is just one of 17 ...
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Risk of Euro Break Up Higher Than Ever As The Political Storm Hits In September
Forbes
... surely undermine the Union's capacity to deal with its finances, deliver a killer blow to over-exposed banks, raise the heat on Portugal and Ireland, and possibly tip large economies like Spain and Italy into a potentially destructive situation. ...
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| Irish plan for emerald-green shoots Fundweb It continues to attract inward investment, with many multinationals choosing Ireland as their European hub. Of the four small Pigs [Portugal, Ireland, Greece and Spain], Ireland is the only one that has moved into a current account surplus, ... See all stories on this topic » |  Fundweb |
Market Observations: Stocks, Gold, Euro Area Charts
Seeking Alpha
10 year government bond yields of Ireland, Greece, Portugal and Spain – All a bit better, except Spanish yields, which look like they are making a bottom. 10 year government bond yields of Italy and Austria, UK gilts and the Greek 2 year note – Italian ...
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The worst of the euro crisis is yet to come
Financial Times
But when France, Spain and Italy all contract their fiscal position at the same time, in addition to Greece, Portugal and Ireland, the result is a co-ordinated fiscal retrenchment of the eurozone. While some of these countries have a fiscal problem, ...
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| Part of a broader European scene The Guardian (Australia) ... I had argued that the crisis unfolding in Greece was not an exclusive Greek problem but part of a broader European crisis. Developments since then and especially the current situation in a number of countries namely Portugal, Ireland, Spain, Italy ... See all stories on this topic » |  The Guardian (Australia) |
Greece Beats Israel to Stay at Top of European Soccer Championship Group
Bloomberg
Ireland is in second in the group, even on points with Slovakia but ahead on goal difference. The two teams drew 0-0 tonight in Dublin. The leader in Group H, Portugal, got two goals from Cristiano Ronaldo in a 4-0 defeat of Cyprus in Nicosia. ...
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CIBC Raises Dividend
Wall Street Journal
The bank said it has no direct exposure to sovereign debt in the troubled European countries of Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece and Spain. Last year, it held direct sovereign exposure of C$43 million last year, according to its financial statements. ...
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Euro crisis: how long can Germany remain the saviour?
The Guardian
First Greece asks for help, then Portugal, Ireland, maybe Spain and Italy. What are we going to do when the next countries fail? You can't just keep chucking money at them. And what if Germany needs help? Who will come to our aid? ...
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Spain Expects 'Chain' of Market Turbulence, Valenciano Says
Bloomberg
2, is necessary as Spain must avoid following Greece, Ireland and Portugal into seeking a European bailout. “We have to say this because sometimes talking of a rescue seems almost something positive: any kind of intervention in Spain would be a great ...
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Dates: Some Big Events And Data Releases, Carefully Watch Europe
IBTimes Hong Kong
If that happens, then Germany will not be able to support the bailout fund, the bailouts of Ireland, Greece (2) and Portugal will be in doubt and the European Central Bank which is currently supporting banks in Spain, Italy, Greece, Ireland, ...
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Iceland Helping Freeze Up Euro Zone
Seeking Alpha
When the financial crisis erupted in late 2008, many nations across the zone including those most at risk – Greece, Ireland, Portugal, Spain, Italy and Belgium -- moved aggressively to support their financial institutions and did whatever necessary to ...
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ECB spent $9.6 billion last week on govt bonds
Sacramento Bee
Rising interest rates pushed Greece, Ireland and Portugal into needing bailout loans. Eurozone officials are trying to keep such troubles from spreading to Italy and Spain, which are considered too large to bail out. The central bank says it expects ...
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IMF, euro-zone reportedly clash over bank losses
MarketWatch
The IMF's figure uses credit default swap prices to estimate the market value of government bonds of Greece, Ireland, Portugal, Italy, Spain and Belgium, according to the report. But euro-zone government officials and the European Central Bank have ...
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Baltic Container Rebound Dulls Hamburg's Euro-Zone Pain: Freight Markets
Bloomberg
While Europe's sovereign debt crisis has prompted bailouts for Greece, Ireland and Portugal, together with concern that Italy and Spain will also need rescuing and a slowdown in core euro-zone economies, most Baltic economies are still rebounding. ...
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| Ignore America's Europe-bashing – it's nothing new The Guardian Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece and Spain are economic basket cases largely because of their generous (and unaffordable) social benefits. These countries threaten to drag down the world economy with them. Furthermore, London recently erupted in riots ... See all stories on this topic » |  The Guardian |
EU officials appeal for quick eurozone bailout decisions
Monsters and Critics.com
As market concerns about the eurozone crisis spreading from Greece, Ireland and Portugal to Italy and Spain grew, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy met on August 16 to announce plans for a 'true economic governance' ...
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Italy's strike-bound players get some action
Times of India
Spain, the third side to have won all their games, are not in action but will find themselves within one win of qualification -- at home to Liechtenstein on Tuesday -- if Czech Republic drop points in Scotland on Saturday. England and France, who have ...
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World Athletics Championships Results
Houston Chronicle
3, q-Marcos Chuva, Portugal, 26-7. 4, q-Will Claye, United States, 26-6½. 5, q-Luvo Manyonga, South Africa, 26-4½. 6, Louis Tsatoumas, Greece, 26-3½. 7, Greg Rutherford, Britain, 26-3. 8, Eusebio Caceres, Spain, 25-11½. 9, Tyrone Smith, Bermuda, ...
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| Bad News For The EU: Angela Merkel's Party Suffers Historic Loss ... By Joe Weisenthal Remember where you heard this, this is THE news in the EU right now. ... As we have mentioned before, according to the Bank for International Settlements, Germany lent almost $1.5 trillion to Greece, Spain, Portugal, Ireland, and Italy. Add to ... Business Insider |
| PocketInfo: Portugal , Greece ,Spain, Italy and Ireland leaving Gold ... PocketInfo is a geolocation news site reporting and commenting on key technology ... Portugal , Greece ,Spain, Italy and Ireland leaving Gold reserves in place ... www.pocketinfo.net/.../portugal-greece-spain-italy-and-ireland... |
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| WHO CARES about, Belgium, Cyprus, Greece, Ireland, Malta ... More Breaking News >. 0 0. WHO CARES about, Belgium, Cyprus, Greece, Ireland, Malta, Norway, Portugal, Spain and Sweden ? As long as France, UK, Germany, Italy, Holland, do not vote in favour, those European provinces opinion, mean ... www.haaretz.com/.../who-cares-about-belgium-cyprus-greece-... |
| Selling gold unlikely to help Europe ease its - Times of Oman Between them Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece and Spain hold some 3233 tonnes ... minister Romano Prodi, writing in Italian newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore in August, ... www.timesofoman.com/innercat.asp?cat=&detail=49272... 
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