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Is world economy nearing another Lehman moment? Livemint Matters came to a head on Thursday, as the US led a brutal global sell-off in equities—the worst since the end of the Western financial crisis and worse than the one we saw after Lehman crumbled to dust. Friday offered temporary relief as the US ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
Global economy: Our leaders need to seize control of the crisis The Guardian Last week saw some of the most violent oscillations in prices across a wider range of financialasset classes than have ever been witnessed. Gold, Swiss francs, Italian and Spanish bonds, UKbank shares, US Treasury bills, the Japanese yen, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
Worried about the worldwide crisis? Our experts explain what's going on The Independent Why haven't lessons been learnt from the last financial crisis? Contrary to what many think, what we are now seeing is not a new crisis, but the painful, down-the-line symptoms of the original one. Remember the phrase "toxic debt"? ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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Markets Expected Credit Ruling, but Risks Remain, Analysts Say New York Times “It's a very emotional and volatile environment,” said Kenneth S. Rogoff, a professor of economics at Harvard University and author, with Carmen M. Reinhart, of “This Time Is Different,” a history offinancial crises. “An event like this can sometimes ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
Reaching the end - and going forward Cape Cod Times (subscription) By STEVEN PEARLSTEIN Short answer: Because we never really fixed underlying structural problems in the US and global economies that had been building for decades and caused thefinancial and economic crisis in 2008. Those problems included a US economy ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
Debt contagion in Europe proves hard to contain Albuquerque Journal (subscription) International investment climates just don't get more challenging than this. Interestingly enough, the rules of smart money management haven't changed much, even when Greece teetered on the edge of a financial abyss, judging by conversations with Bill ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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Investors try to look past panic Reuters UK The European Central Bank faced a decision on Sunday whether to buy Italian bonds to try to prevent the euro zone debt crisis from widening. Having fallen in nine of the last 10 sessions, the S&P 500 .SPX closed the week down 7.2 percent -- its biggest ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
Asia, Europe to 'Stick It Out' With US Debt After S&P Cut BusinessWeek South Korean officials put the downgrade on the agenda of an emergency meeting on global turmoil today. China's official Xinhua news service said in a commentary that the US must cure its “addiction” to borrowing. With Europe battling its debt crisis, ... See all stories on this topic » |
TheStreet.com Any purchase of Italian government bonds would be aimed at keeping yields reasonable levels that would allow Italy to continue to refinance its debt. It was skyrocketing yields on government bonds ofGreece, Ireland and Portugal that forced those ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
Recovery chance thrown away - Brown WalesOnline Mr Brown said that the eurozone leaders had "thrown away" Europe's chance of a recovery by wrongly assuming that the continent's problems were confined to peripheral countries like Greece,Portugal and Ireland and could be dealt with by imposing ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
Markets brace for more carnage Mirror.co.uk And traders are still worried that Spain and Italy will be unable to pay the interest on their debts and may need a bail-out similar to those handed to Greece, Portugal and Ireland. Michael Hewson, an analyst at CMC Markets, expects markets to "tank" ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
European Central Bank confers on Italy crisis BusinessWeek European officials are trying to keep Italy from being dragged into the same kind of interest-rate death spiral that forced Greece, Ireland and Portugal to seek international bailout loans after they could no longer borrow at affordable rates. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
US Debt Crisis: Tangle in the world's economy NewsX The debt crisis that began in Greece has spread to Ireland, Portugal, Spain and now even Italy. Europe's 5th largest economy is putting the future of the Euro at risk. Even in Asia the world growth powerhouse growth levels have slowed. See all stories on this topic » | ||
Spain's Fin Min Seeks Calm With Further Economic Measures Wall Street Journal The euro-zone debt crisis, which has already forced Greece, Ireland and Portugal to request financial aid, has engulfed Spain and Italy in recent days. Spain is running a budget deficit and needs consistent access to fresh financing to cover gaps and ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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Endgame draws closer as the euro teeters on brink Irish Independent What the markets really want is for the ECB to buy Italian and Spanish bonds, not to fiddle with the likes of Greece, Ireland and Portugal while Rome burns, and then Madrid. The ECB purchase of Irish and Portuguese bonds last Thursday was almost ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
Panic in the streets Philippine Star ... is the debt crisis in Europe that has threatened to engulf Spain and even Italy, the EU's 3 rd biggest economy. To put it in perspective, note that the economies of Greece, Ireland andPortugal combined amount to only about 1/3 of that of Italy. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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Eurozone crisis is scuppering UK buyers' hopes of a foreign home The Independent The countries now trickiest to deal with in terms of finance are those in the press with well-documented difficulties with their economies – Greece, Ireland, Portugal and now increasinglyItaly and Spain." Problems for British buyers include more ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
Debt crisis: leaders in a rush to find common purpose U.TV The mass panic saw the yield on Italy's 10-year bond rise to 6.09%, ahead of Spain's equivalent of 6.04%, not far from the levels that forced Greece, Ireland and Portugal to seek international financial help. With the equity markets seemingly in ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
America's at the Start of a Long, Hard Journey Lynchburg News and Advance The European Central Bank, with the financial backing of France and Germany, had no sooner finished dealing with Greece and halfway stanching the fiscal bleeding in Ireland and Portugal, when up popped concerns about Italy and Spain. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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Worldwide Debt Crisis Unravels: Doomsday Scenario for the Markets Seeking Alpha Starting with Greece, then Portugal and Ireland. Now even Italy and Spain, the third and fourth largest economies in the European Union, are being hit with debt problems. The European countries have mostly benefited from a very socialist regimen, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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Weekly Market Movers: The Real Reason Markets Got Crushed Seeking Alpha Ireland and Portugal needing more help is also old news. Spiking GIIPS bond yields are worrisome, but nothing new. Ok, one new thing, the Greek part of Cyprus is now ready to join the bailout club, so now we can call them the “GIIPS-Cs”. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
Sean O'Grady: If the US can't bail out the world, then who do we turn to? Mars? The Independent When Greece, Ireland and Portugal needed help, Germany took on the lion's share, but Spainand Italy chipped in too. Now it all falls to Germany, and it is beyond its means. The only sane answer is for the eurozone to Europeanise its debts. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
S&P's U.S Downgrade Is a Sham and a Shame Seeking Alpha Among the 17 Members: Ireland, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Greece, Belgium. They will guarantee the loans to themselves? It's a Ponzi – and S&P trusts this? As Charles Dickens said, Credit is a system whereby a person who cannot pay gets another person who ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
Leaders move to calm money markets Kuwait News Agency Writing in the Independent on Sunday newspaper, Brown said that the beleaguered economies ofItaly, Spain, Belgium, Ireland, Greece and Portugal may together need support totalling as much as 2 trillion euros - far more than the amounts set aside by ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
US CREDIT BLOW TO ROCK THE MARKETS Express.co.uk ... whose sovereign debt market interest rates are relatively high in relation to the UK.” On Thursday, Lloyds surprised the market by adding Belgium to the list of crisis-hit eurozone states, which is made up of Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece and Spain. See all stories on this topic » | ||
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Old Mutual's turnaround cemented Moneyweb.co.za ALEC HOGG: Yes on that point it was interesting to see that you in fact highlighted that you have very small exposure to the sovereign debt of Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece and Spain and even that you've only got $40million exposed to the United ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
<strong>Desperate Democrats Launch Campaign to Blame GOP for S&P Downgrade ... NewsMax.com Globally, governments are trying to get their balance sheets back in order, and the European Union is fighting to contain a debt crisis that in recent weeks has spread to Spain and Italy as well asGreece, Portugal, and Ireland. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
The Eurocrats are caught out as markets flex their muscles to show who's ... Irish Independent If there is a common sovereign debt instrument in the eurozone the PIIGS (Portugal, Ireland, Italy,Greece and Spain) will benefit from the financial strength of the stronger ones. It may be too late. This should have been done three years ago if it ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
Q&A: Al Simpson on the nation's deficit Denver Post If this kind of heat, with the debt limit extension, what's happening in the global world with real life -- the numbers aren't the same, but the trajectory of debt, and GDP and interest rate, is the same asGreece, Ireland, Spain, Portugal, Italy. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
Dubai shares get steady after plunging at the open gulfnews.com There are also mounting fears that the Eurozone's sovereign debt crisis will spread to heavyweightsSpain and Italy following bailouts of Greece, Ireland and Portugal. Elsewhere in the Gulf, Saudi Arabia's Tadawul All Share Index was up 0.57 per cent ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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Ruth Dudley Edwards: 'Spoiled children' play the blame-game at fever pitch Irish Independent The only certain way of calming the present panic is for the hitherto cautious and frugal Chancellor Merkel to bet party and country on the survival of the Eurozone by guaranteeing the debts of Cyprus,Greece, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, Spain and any of ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
First test of UN-backed tsunami warning system to be held in the Mediterranean ISRIA (registration) ... Cyprus, Denmark, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Lebanon, Malta, Monaco, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovenia,Spain, Sweden, Syria, Turkey, Ukraine and the United Kingdom. ... See all stories on this topic » |
Germany says eurozone can't save Italy - Germany's news in English It simply does not make sense for German taxpayers to have to bail out countries like Greece,Ireland, Italy, Portugal and soon Spain and France, that clearly have no control over their spending and government corruption. ... The Local - Germany's news in English |
EU Teeters as Italy and Spain Face Possibility of Default | Verum ... By John Video: Italy Passes Austerity Budget; After the downgrade of Portugal and Ireland's debt, this is goodnews: The concern is that if Italy gets downgraded, the Euro would collapse. ... Street Riots in Spain: Workers of the World Unite Against Fiscal Sanity; Here's video of the “day of action” in Barcelona,Spain: Here's a clip from last night's similar protest in Madrid (and also in Greece): Sky news has a report that explains who is protesting and why: Tens of thousands ... Verum Serum |
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