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IRELAND, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Greece News, Oct 31, 2011


Italian Bonds Slide on Contagion Concern; German Bunds Advance
BusinessWeek
Barclays Plc said it cut its exposure to Spain, Italy, Portugal, Ireland andGreece by 31 percent in the third quarter to 8 billion pounds ($12.8 billion). Question marks linger over how easy it will be to increase the scope of Europe's bailout fund, ...
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Europe's new plan: will it work? Part 1
ABC Online
In the period till the end of 2013, Ireland, Portugal, Spain,Italy and Belgium will need to raise about 700 billion euros to finance their deficits and refinance maturing debt. In 2012, Spainfaces maturing debt of around 120 billion euros. ...
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ABC Online
Barclays Cuts Exposure To Euro-Zone Governments
Wall Street Journal
... Jones)--Barclays PLC (BCS) Monday said it cut its exposure to troubled euro-zone governments by almost one-third over three months, leaving it with around GBP8 billion net sovereign exposure to Spain, Italy, Portugal,Ireland and Greece at Sept. ...
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Barclays profit soars on less exposure to EU debt
AFP
Its sovereign debt exposure to Greece, Ireland, Italy, Portugaland Spain was reduced by 31 percent to £8.0 billion in the third quarter, helping offset a 15-percent drop in revenues at investment arm Barclays Capital. ...
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AFP
Treasuries Rise as Japan Sells Yen, Italian, Spanish Bonds Drop
San Francisco Chronicle
MF Global owns $6.3 billion of Italian, Spanish, Belgian, Portuguese andIrish debt, the company said in an Oct. 25 presentation. Since Chairman Jon Corzine arrived at the firm in March 2010, he increased the firm's risk and used its own money to trade ...
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Barclays raises pretax profits, reduces Eurozone exposure
Stock Market Wire
The Group's sovereign exposure to Spain, Italy, Portugal, Ireland andGreece reduced in Q3 by 31% to £8bn. £6bn of term funding was raised in Q3 2011, making £24bn in 2011 year to date. This compares to full year 2011 term funding maturities of £25bn. ...
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Credit-Default Swap Risk Bomb Is Wired to Explode: Mark Buchanan
San Francisco Chronicle
Greece and Italy are prominent; Ireland, Portugal and Spain lurk ominously nearby. France and Germany seem exposed, too, as does the US The image is like a complex wiring diagram for a ticking debt bomb. Yet what it shows may be less important than ...
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Kavanagh: Will the euro be Cameron's 'peace in our time'?
The Sun
Portugal is going bust like Greece and seems likely to be swiftly followed by Spain, Italy and even France. Merkel warns this disaster may lead to war. If so, Mr Cameron's failure to see it coming will haunt him for ever, just as appeaser Neville ...
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The Sun
Europe Tries To Recapitalize Banks Without Injecting Capital
BusinessWeek
The Bloomberg Europe Banks and Financial Services Index has fallen 26 percent this year on concern that lenders will have to write down their holdings of the government debt of Greece, Italy, Ireland, Portugal and Spain. The index's 46 members trade at ...
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Euro deal will only work if all parts implemented
Economic Times
... leaders in Cannes, Asmussen also said he did not expect Germany to come under any pressure from other countries at the summit to do more to stem the crisis that has forced bailouts of Greece, Ireland and Portugal and now threatens Italy and Spain. ...
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Occupy Europe: How a generation went from indifferent to indignant
MinnPost.com
Greece (twice), Ireland, and Portugal have needed bailouts, and it isn't over.Spain and Italy are not out of the red-ink woods. Youth riots in London this summer may have been a singular, compulsive event, but they hold a warning....
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Treasuries Rise as Japan Sells Yen, Italian, Spanish Bonds Drop
BusinessWeek
MF Global owns $6.3 billion of Italian, Spanish, Belgian, Portuguese andIrish debt, the company said in an Oct. 25 presentation. Since Chairman Jon Corzine arrived at the firm in March 2010, he increased the firm's risk and used its own money to trade ...
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Factbox: Holes in the latest deal to save the euro zone
Reuters
Such firepower would allow the EFSF to finance Spain and Italy for up to two years if they were shut out of capital markets, economists say. But how does the euro zone get to 1 trillion euros? After deducting the EFSF's existing emergency funding ...
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Barclays PLC's CEO Discusses Q3 2011 Results - Earnings Call Transcript
Seeking Alpha
We continue to give detailed disclosure on our assets in Greece, Ireland,Italy, Portugal, and Spain. And given market interest, I'd like to talk about these before taking you through the individual businesses. Our sovereign exposure at the end of ...
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Defying Gravity
Seeking Alpha
What does the EU do when Portugal or Ireland asks for debt relief? When they rescued their banks in 2008-9, the Irish understood that they would be offered the same deal as Greece if there was a deal to be done on debt relief. Already, the Irish are ...
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Why did so many Euro-enthusiasts get it wrong? Because they're prejudiced
Telegraph.co.uk (blog)
Greece will push French banks down the chute first; but German banks won't avoid it, and together they'll finish Italy off. “With luck, Italy will suck Spaininto the abyss; Portugal will follow Spain, and Ireland Portugal. Just think of it! ...
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Will the US and Europe Rise Again -- or Sink Together?
Knowledge@Wharton
At the same time, Northern Europeans are fearful of simply cutting Greece loose and allowing it to default, citing worries of a “domino effect” in Portugal, Ireland and perhaps Italyand Spain. French and German banks hold large amounts of debt from ...
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Knowledge@Wharton
'New Italians' birth rate boost prompts rethink on immigration
Irish Times
The Italian birth rate, while some way lower than Ireland's 1.06 per cent growth, is very much in line with those of its European partners such asSpain, the UK and France on 0.57 per cent, 0.56 per cent and 0.5 per cent respectively, ...
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The Spirit of the Age
CounterPunch
As some countries collapsed (Iceland, Ireland, Greece) and others (Portugal, Spain, Italy) stared into the abyss, the EU (in reality the BU, a Bankers Union) stepped in to impose austerity and to save the German, French and British banking systems. ...
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Wrong answer to Europe's debt crisis
Socialist Worker Online
Other countries are confrontin the same choices, or soon will be: Spain,Ireland, Italy, Portugal, and this list is far from exhaustive. In any case, these same policies are being applied in differing degrees all over the EU. ...
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MF Global: Trading Options If It Files For Bankruptcy
Seeking Alpha
MF now has over $6 billion invested in European countries such as Italy,Portugal, Spain and Ireland. MF Global recently exhausted all credit lines over the last few days in an effort to stay afloat. This was also right after the company stated that it ...
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Resolution of eurozone debt crisis could spell end to common currency
Hedge Funds Review Magazine
... sorry, currency) or if German and European politicians prefer to preserve a “proud, healthier vase” albeit with a few missing Piigs [Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece, Spain] pieces that could otherwise have made the whole vase collapse. ...
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Hedge Funds Review Magazine
SPX and NDX Update: A Disturbing Look at Fundamentals, and the Rally Explained
Minyanville.com
There is simply too much debt in Greece, Italy, Ireland, Spain, France, andPortugal for the eurozone to recover from unscathed. Meanwhile, the United States is running into debt problems of its own. The US Treasury market is deeply dependent on ...
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Wall Street Gets Giddy -- Will It Last?
TheStreet.com
Amplifying that fear has been the specter of contagion among the PIIGS (Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece, Spain), with investors concerned that a default by Greece could lead to similar actions by one or more of the EU's Southern members, all burdened ...
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TheStreet.com
Summit shows how far EU has moved
New Zealand Herald
Gravely wounded by a debt crisis that began in Greece and spread toIreland, Portugal, Spain and finally Italy, the single European currency could have bled to death if the 27 leaders failed to act with resolve. TwistingItaly by its sensitive parts ...
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Europe is scarier than Halloween
NEWS.com.au
PIIGS is the name given by financial markets to Europe's economic basket cases Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece and Spain. The reason the European Union has been so willing to help Greece is to buy time for the other PIIGS to make tough decisions in ...
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World leaders aim to revive global recovery
The Associated Press
That reads as a slap to European leaders who've attempted for nearly two years to get a grip on the widening sovereign debt crisis beginning in Greecethat has drawn in Ireland and Portugal and now threatens Italy and Spain....
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The warm heart beneath the ice
Financial Times
Although the first few years were tough, they persevered, forging into all regions of Italy before creating the international company Alliance Santé, after a series of deals in France, Spain,Portugal, Greece and Morocco. ...
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Financial Times
World leaders aim to revive global recovery
Seattle Post Intelligencer
That reads as a slap to European leaders who've attempted for nearly two years to get a grip on the widening sovereign debt crisis beginning in Greecethat has drawn in Ireland and Portugal and now threatens Italy and Spain....
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Waves of austerity weaken Greek Socialists
Washington Times
... leaders grapple over proposed solutions to stop the eurozone debt crisis from spreading from the three smaller nations that have received bailouts - Greece, Ireland and Portugal - to major economies that are struggling, such as Italy and Spain....
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Washington Times
5 myths about the G20
Hamilton Spectator
... and strengthen EU banks; use its new European Financial Stability Facility to enable Italy and Spain to roll over government debts, while assistingGreece, Portugal and Ireland; and ease the debt load on Greece to give it a chance of recovery. ...
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Dementia Costs Europe €189 Billion A Year
Medical News Today
These include: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany,Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom (UK). All 15 countries had comparable data available, so the researchers could use the ...
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Profits Top Estimates for 11th Quarter as Analysts See Rally
BusinessWeek
They're trying to prevent a default in Greece, where public debt was 145 percent of GDP last year, higher than any other nation in the region, according to the European Commission. Government bond yields in Italy, Spain andPortugal reached record ...
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In The News Today « Jim Sinclair's Mineset
By Jim Sinclair
by Jim Sinclair in the category In The News | Print This Post | Email This Post. Jim Sinclair's Commentary. If called on ... Greece and Italy are prominent;IrelandPortugal and Spain lurk ominously nearby. France and Germany seem exposed, ...
Jim Sinclair's Mineset
Why did so many Euro-enthusiasts get it wrong? Because they're ...
By Daniel Hannan
Website of the Telegraph Media Group with breaking news, sport, business, latest UK and world news. Content from the Daily Telegraph and ... After all, those ghastly Greeks who cooked the books to enter Euroland in the first place are sure to be cooking them again with an eye to ever larger bail-outs.” Euro summits, the argument goes, are just ... “With luck, Italy will suck Spaininto the abyss; Portugal will follow Spain, and Ireland Portugal. Just think of it! Those Irish traitors from 1922 ...
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Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece and Spain - PIIGS
Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece and Spain - PIIGS ... See more recentnews. Multi- Notch Downgrade For Spain As Moody's Feasts On PIIGS. Forbes Oct 18 ...
www.wikinvest.com/.../Portugal,_Italy,_Ireland,_Greece_and_...
Spain, Italy under pressure as EU frames deal on ... - Yahoo! News
Discover News based on what your friends are reading and publish your own reading ..... Italy, Spain, Portugal, Belgium, France, Ireland and Greeceshould ...
news.yahoo.com/greece-may-60-percent-bond-writedown-eu-...
French bonds following the path trampled by Greece, Ireland, Portugal
French bonds following the path trampled by Greece, Ireland, Portugal,Spain and Italy. Posted on October 24, 2011 by Mike Riddell. We've already discussed ...
www.bondvigilantes.com/.../french-bonds-following-the-path-...
Not a sheep: Ireland, Greece, Portugal, Spain, Italy...
Ireland, Greece, Portugal, Spain, Italy. ... Guido Fawkes - UK politicalnews and views · Iain Dale - Conservative supporting blog, great for political gossip ...
notasheepmaybeagoat.blogspot.com/.../ireland-greece-portuga...
Will Monsieur Trichet end up retreating from Spain and Italy like he ...
The social news and knowledge network for the investment community ... end up retreating from Spain and Italy like he has from Greece, Ireland andPortugal? ...
www.mindfulmoney.co.uk/.../will-monsieur-trichet-end-up-ret...
Sarkozy yields on ECB crisis role, pressure on Italy - Business ...
He indicated that Italy, the euro zone state now in the markets' firing line, had been told ... leader told a joint news conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. ... and how to scale up the rescue fund to shield Italy andSpain, the euro area's ... turmoil that has forced Greece, Ireland andPortugal into EU-IMF bailouts. ...
www.msnbc.msn.com/.../sarkozy-yields-ecb-crisis-role-pressur...
BBC News - Will Germany insure Italy against default?
But in Spain, Italy, Portugal, Ireland, Cyprus, Germany, France - and especially - Greece, banks will have to find a way to obtain buckets and buckets of new ...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-15459084
Repost: Why A €1 Trillion EFSF Is Not A "Bazooka" But A ...
The most important news of the night is not that the Greek haircut will be 50%, ... Again, Spain and Italy cannot insure themselves when they are both at clear and .... Greece, Ireland and Portugal have been taken out of the market and are ...
www.zerohedge.com/.../repost-why-€1-trillion-efsf-not-bazoo...
BoC Not Hold Portugal, Ireland, Greece, Spain-related Bonds
menafn: BoC Not Hold Portugal, Ireland, Greece, Spain-related ... News by Industry ... Currently, BoC only holds bonds issued by the government of Italyand ...
www.menafn.com/qn_news_story.asp?storyid...1b6f-45dc...
GREECE NOW! The President of Greece and politicians in all over ...
Every TV channel / newspaper in Ireland / Portugal / Greece /Spain / Italyrepeats the broken record of how great is the economy in France and above all in the ...
www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message1685247/pg1

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