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IRELAND, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Greece News, Nov 28, 2011


Eurozone Crisis: Italy, Spain, Greece, Portugal and Ireland in Debt Web
International Business Times
The most affected members include Greece, Ireland, Italy, Spain and Portugal as these governments are reeling under budget deficits and high debt levels. In fact,Greece, Ireland and Portugal, collectively, account for six percent of the Eurozone's...
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International Business Times
Debt Crisis Is a Symptom of Wider Failings
Wall Street Journal
The crisis has only ever been partly about the sustainability of the sovereign debts of Greece,Ireland, Portugal, Italy and Spain. More crucially, it has always been a political crisis, an institutional crisis, a crisis of governance. ...
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Spanish, Italian bonds extend losses
Sydney Morning Herald
Jefferies Group Inc., a New York-based investment bank, said it further trimmed its holdings inGreece, Ireland, Italy, Portugal and Spain. “We have further reduced our total gross exposure toGreece, Ireland, Italy, Portugal and Spain by almost ...
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Jefferies Cuts PIIGS Exposure Another 50%
Wall Street Journal (blog)
By Melodie Warner Jefferies Group Inc. reduced its gross exposure to Greece, Ireland, Italy,Portugal and Spain by almost another 50% as the investment bank ramps up its campaign to dispel concerns about its European exposure. The investment bank said ...
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Japanese Life Insurers Cut Europe Bond Holdings
Wall Street Journal
By MEGUMI FUJIKAWA TOKYO—Major Japanese life insurers cut their exposure to debt issued byPortugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece and Spain over the past few months, company officials said Thursday, underscoring widening concerns among Japanese investors ...
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Second Largest European Economy Faces Large Problems, According to Leading ...
PR Web (press release)
Ireland, Portugal and Greece have all asked for a bailout. Spain and Italy are next. The governments of both Greece and Italy have toppled.” French banks have too much exposure to Italy. French banks have plenty of 'bad' Italian debt on their books. ...
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PR Web (press release)
Without a cure, disease will spread
Fundweb
In the past few days and weeks, discussion has increased about the possibility of contagion in and emanating from the peripheral eurozone countries: Ireland, Italy,Greece, Portugal and Spain. By looking at the Thomson Reuters Indices for the ...
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Fundweb
Germany Sees No 'Bazooka' in Crisis as Spain Yields Surge
BusinessWeek
Germany is signaling resistance to stepping up Europe's response as the debt crisis that began more than two years ago in Greece threatens France, after snaring Ireland, Portugal, Italy andSpain. While the extra yield investors demand to lend to ...
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Hedge Fund Ireland
New York Times (blog)
Regular readers may have noticed that these days, when I try to summarize the European dilemma, I use figures contrasting German current account surpluses with the deficits of Greece, Italy,Portugal, Spain. What happened to Ireland? ...
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Euro rises, bond auctions leave it vulnerable
Reuters
Belgium's benchmark 10-year yield has risen to near the 6 percent level, taking it closer to levels at which countries such as Portugal and Ireland had to start considering bailouts. With Italy, France and Spain also looking to sell debt this week, ...
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Analysis - Some in Europe draw hope from rare German weakness
Reuters
While Greece, Ireland and Portugal have had to suffer the ignominy of taking bailouts from the EU and IMF, and Spain, Italy and France are now firmly in the firing line, Europe's most powerful economy has remained above the fray. ...
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Britain draws up emergency plans for collapse of Euro as warnings Italy needs ...
Daily Mail
I mean, for example, one in seven pounds we export goes to Ireland, Italy, Portugal,Spain and Greece - just those countries. 'So in other words, it's a very important part of our economic strategy that we get the Eurozone moving as well. ...
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Daily Mail
Ratings Deflation: Are We Facing A World Without AAA Bonds?
Seeking Alpha
First it was Greece, then Portugal, Ireland, Spain, Italy and France and Germany are maybe coming next. It seems that soon there will be no euro countries left with AAA ratings. Japan lost it a while ago and the US could follow when the next ...
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Top Yielding British Stocks
Seeking Alpha
Investors have heard a lot this year about the financial trials and tribulations of European countries,Greece, Italy, Ireland, Portugal, and Spain. There are even some grumblings about France and Germany. But one country you don't hear much about, ...
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Ratings Deflation: A World Without AAA Bonds?
Wall Street Pit
By Antonio Fatás Nov 25, 2011, 8:40 AM Author's Website First it was Greece, then Portugal,Ireland, Spain, Italy and France and Germany are maybe coming next. It seems that soon there will be no Euro countries left with AAA rating. ...
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France in hot seat on alarming debt bell
Xinhua
23 (Xinhua) -- After Ireland, Portugal, Greece, Italy and Spain, the alarming bell of debt crisis is ringing in France, where jitters over debt crisis's spread into core European economies is escalating, in a sign that the region is facing a serious ...
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In Hell the bureaucracy is run by the Italians and Greeks and everything is ...
Telegraph.co.uk (blog)
The Doing Business project, carried out by the World Bank, found that businesses inItaly, Greece, Portugal, Ireland and Spain tend to be the most bogged down by bureaucracy, compared to those in Britain, Germany, France and the United States. ...
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Telegraph.co.uk (blog)
Fate of Euro May Hinge on Italian Savers
New York Times
Compared with debt-saddled Greece, Spain and Ireland, Italy is much less reliant on foreign investors to finance its debt. And more so than in any other euro zone country,Italian citizens have been active buyers of government debt, with such bond ...
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New York Times
Euro zone integration may pave way for ECB bond action-officials
Reuters
As part of its response to the escalating debt crisis, which started with Greece and then engulfedIreland and Portugal, the euro zone is trying to leverage its bailout fund, the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF), to give it more firepower. ...
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France to Lose it's AAA Rated Credit Soon
Technorati
Also, its financial institutions have the greatest debt holdings in Greece, Ireland,Portugal, Italy and Spain. As of June 2011, France's institutions held 681 billion euros or $921 billion, according to reports from the Bank for International ...
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Technorati
EU Contagion: A Pair Of ETF Remedies To Hedge What Ails You
Seeking Alpha
The most common assumption seemed to be that the other PIIGS (Portugal, Ireland, Italy,Greece and Spain) would topple like a row of dominoes, in some linear and logical progression, should the sovereign debt crisis increase in scope. ...
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Iceland: The original basket case getting its groove back
Globe and Mail
Before there was Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece and Spain, there was Iceland. But Standard & Poor's, the rating agency that loves to hate everyone, upgraded its outlook for the tiny nation yesterday, moving it to stable from negative, ...
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Globe and Mail
Portugal debt ratings cut to 'junk' status by Fitch
BBC News
Investors fear Spain or Italy may be next to need a bailout. Portugal's debt rating was cut by one notch, to BB+ from BBB-, and put on "negative outlook", meaning it is likely its debt will be downgraded again. The latest rating means it is ...
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BBC News
Obama to Meet with EU Leaders in Washington
C-SPAN
Over the past two years, Europe's debt crisis has affected Greece, Portugal andIreland and threatens the euro zone's largest economies, Spain, Italy and France. Today, the President will welcome European Council President Herman Van Rompuy,...
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C-SPAN
Gentium Announces Establishment of Commercial Infrastructure and Appointment ...
MarketWatch (press release)
The team plans to provide a direct sales force in Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland and the United Kingdom and to manage sales through several distributor partners for the rest of ...
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All EU ratings threatened by crisis: Moody's
AFP
Greece, Ireland and Portugal all suffered rating downgrades that accelerated unsustainable rises in their borrowing costs over the past two years. Spain and Italy, which has opened its books to international auditors, have also come under pressure in...
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AFP
Fee Drought Triggers 'Bloodletting' for Europe's Equity Traders
Bloomberg
Added to that, the rally in Europe's benchmark Stoxx Europe 600 Index that began in March 2009 petered out less than two years later as Greece, Ireland and Portugalwere bailed out and borrowing costs for countries from Spain to Italy soared. ...
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Bloomberg
Hungary's Credit Rating Cut to Junk by Moody's After Last-Minute IMF Plea
Bloomberg
Investors are shunning riskier bonds as Italy, which has a bigger debt load than Spain,Greece, Ireland and Portugal combined, struggles to ward off contagion from the euro area's debt crisis that started in Greece more than two years ago and threatens...
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Bloomberg
French Bonds, The Next Big Short?
Forbes
By comparison, Italy CDS are over 500 basis points over Treasurys. “The world has done okay with Greek, Ireland and Portugal bond spreads widening to astronomical levels. But it won't handle Spain, Italy and France bond yields going higher. ...
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Forbes
Points to Ponder: The Economics of Envy and the American Dream
Offshore Oil and Gas Magazine
By John Tobin The European crisis with its PIIGS (Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece & Spain) nations' sovereign debt problems and the dismal failure of our own government through the Super Committee are the headlines today. However, I can't even start ...
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A look at economic developments around the globe
BusinessWeek
MADRID -- Spain's borrowing costs rose above those of Greece and Portugal in an auction of short-term debt, suggesting investors remain cautious about this country's financial future despite a convincing electoral win this week by conservatives bent on ...
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Belgium still afloat after 17 months of no government
National Post (blog)
Greece, Italy, Spain, Ireland… But Belgium is different. Belgium has hadn'ta government for 17 months, and is still in better shape than some of its neighbours. Not in perfect shape, mind. The deficit is out of hand, the cost of borrowing is ...
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Euro bailout fund leveraging rules ready: documents
Reuters
... to providing assistance to Ireland, Portugal and Greece, and needs to set aside money in case it needs to help recapitalize European banks as well. As a result, it only has about 250 billion euros available, not nearly enough to help Italy and Spain.
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Spain Joins Greece and Italy with Economic Issues
By Thomas Hertog
Home » News » Like Greece and ItalySpain Has its Own Set of Economic Problems. Thomas has worked in the securities, financial services and professional services industries for 25 years. He is also ... Recently, Spain's bonds traded at 6.975 percent, just below the seven percent level that previously signaled serious difficulties for ItalyPortugalIreland and Greece. Fortunately, the European Central Bank (ECB) began buying bonds in the open market for PortugalIrelandGreece...
IRA.com
US Politics | AMERICAblog News: Edward Harrison: Here's what ...
By Gaius Publius
News and opinion about US politics from a liberal/Democratic/progressive perspective. ... Just don't ask them how much of that was issued by GreeceItalyIrelandPortugal and Spain, known as the GIIPS. When you "sell" protection, you ...
US Politics | AMERICAblog News
Spain Elects New Government, but No Time for a Siesta
By Sally McNamara
The Foundry: Conservative Policy News Blog from The Heritage Foundation · Twitter · Facebook · Email · RSS · Flickr · YouTube · Amazon. Trending. Heritage Debate · Iran ... and a crisis of confidence is now sweeping the eurozone. All of the heads of government of the PIIGS group (PortugalIrelandItalyGreece and Spain) have been swept from power since the onset of the eurozone debt crisis—some democratically and some by Brussels diktat. Indeed, the only winner in this crisis ...
The Foundry: Conservative Policy...
Possible Greek Solution: Two Drachmas @ Forex Factory
By From efxnews.com
But let me humbly offer my advice to the wise men of Europe. There is a way out: a dual currency forGreece and a temporary multiple exchange rate mechanism for the euro zone as a whole. ...Interesting solution to the Greeks but, what are the options for IrelandPortugalItaly and Spain? Interesting solution to the Greeks but, what are the options for Ireland, ... Category: Breaking News(medium impact) EURUSD Soars On No News: ECB Now Intervening In FX? From zerohedge.com ...
Forex Factory
Another Change of Party in Europe as Crisis Continues | FDL News ...
By David Dayen
“We have been living as a very rich country,” he told BBC News. “People are used to ... This is the fifth European country to see a change in leadership during the debt crisis, with Spain joining Italy,GreecePortugal and Ireland. And yet we still ...
Firedoglake
Pressure for fast action after Spain ... - Antigua Observer Newspaper
By efrancis
Categorized | International News ... It was the fifth euro zone government to be toppled this year by a debt crisis that now seems out of the control of vulnerable individual countries , with Spain followingGreeceIrelandPortugal and Italy. ...
Antigua Observer Newspaper
The Rise and Fall of Greco-Roman Man…the Collapse of the Euro ...
By Alex
The PIIGS [ an acronym used by international bond analysts, academics, and the economic press that refers to the economies of PortugalItalyGreece, and Spain - and sometimes Ireland ] are in the Parlor and it's not a pretty scene. First Greece , now Italy. So you wonder why the stock market has been a whip saw for the past six months – sometimes going up or down 3 to 4 percent a day depending on the news from the Euro Zone. Will they save the Euro or not? Of course not! ...
World Mysteries Blog
Sony Digital Network Applications, Inc.: Smartphone Apps "photo ...
News about Sony Digital Network Applications, Inc. on ITbriefing.net ... 2.49USD : United States. 1.99EUR : Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, IrelandItaly, Netherlands, PortugalSpain. 1.99GBP : United Kingdom. 15DKK : Denmark ...
ITbriefing.net
Best Performs Added Stress Testing Due to Europe's ... - Rocket News
By Editor - Finance Top Stories
Further weakening of this economic environment holds significant implications for insurers with assets in euro zone countries (particularly PortugalItalyIrelandGreece and Spain) and for those operating in the region.” Although Best said it ...
Rocket News
Italy, Spain, Greece, Portugal and Ireland in Debt Web | HEADLINE ...
The Eurozone crisis, which has intensified since early 2010, shows no signs of abating and has put several member countries on the brink of default. The most ...
www.headlinenewsonline.com/.../italy-spain-greece-portugal-a...
Graphic: How bureaucracy is slowing ... - Yahoo! UK & Ireland Finance
Regulations and poor administration have held back Portugal, Ireland (Xetra: A0Q8L3 - news) ,Italy, Greece and Spain's economies, illustrated here using ...
uk.finance.yahoo.com/.../Graphic-How-bureaucracy-tele-1318...
Big Bazooka II–Updated! « Euro Area Debt Crisis by Megan Greene
According to Citibank estimates, Italy and Spain's financing needs in ... The borrowing costs forPortugal and Ireland minus the funding still available in their .... in a news bulletin two days ago that the new PMs of Greece and Italy and other EU ...
economistmeg.com/2011/11/17/big-bazooka-ii/
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