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IRELAND, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Greece News, Jan 17, 2012

France, Italy, Spain and Portugal among nine euro nations saw their credit ...
Toronto Star
Cyprus, Italy, Portugal, and Spain were downgraded by two levels. Portugalwas cut to “junk” status. The ratings of Germany, Belgium, Estonia, Finland,Ireland, Luxembourg and the Netherlands were unchanged, S&P said in a statement after the markets ...
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Italy, Spain Offer $21.5 Billion of Debt in First Auctions of the New Year
Bloomberg
Yields Fall While the yield on Italy's 10-year bond remains near the 7 percent level that prompted Greece, Ireland and Portugal to seek bailouts, it was down 10 basis points at 6.88 percent at 9:15 am Rome time. Spanish debt has fared better with its ...
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Exports need larger cover for crisis-hit Europe
mydigitalfc.com
By Yogima Seth Sharma Jan 17 2012 , New Delhi Indian exporters with exposure to Spain, Portugal, Ireland, Italy and Greece (SPIIG) will now have to take larger risk cover from Export Credit Guarantee Corporation (ECGC) of India on the back of looming ...
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JPMorgan could lose $5 bln from PIIGS exposure-rpt
Reuters
| MILAN Jan 14 (Reuters) - JPMorgan Chase & Co could lose up to $5 billion from its exposure to Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece and Spain, Chief Executive Jamie Dimon said in an interview with Class CNBC, carried in Italiannewspaper Milano Finanza on ...
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Brazilian Senator Explains the Lessons Greece Taught the World
Brazzil Magazine
The year 2011 was the year of Greece. More than Ireland, Iceland, Spain,Portugal or Italy, Greece symbolized the worldwide crisis. Even more so than the United States in 2008. In Greece, the dimension of the crisis was wider: it was economic with a ...
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Will CDS Tackle the European Financial System?
International Business Times
Greece, Ireland, Italy, Portugal and Spain have been at the forefront of the European sovereign debt crisis that has been festering for nearly three years. Wells Fargo economists say the notional value of the CDS contracts that have been written on ...
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International Business Times
Crisis Causes Shift in Use of Bond Indexes
Wall Street Journal
But according to money managers and industry data, it is common for indexes to call for investors to hold more than 20% of a portfolio in bonds issued by Italy. Spain is often more than 10% of European sovereign-debt indexes, while Ireland and Portugal ...
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Wall Street Journal
JPMorgan could lose $5 bln from PIIGS exposure - report
Reuters India
N) could lose up to $5 billion from its exposure to Portugal, Ireland, Italy,Greece and Spain, Chief Executive Jamie Dimon said in an interview with Class CNBC, carried in Italian newspaper Milano Finanza on Saturday. Dimon said the bank was exposed ...
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Europe's road to nowhere part 2: roadblocks ahead
ABC Online
The total debt of the PIIGS (Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece andSpain) plus Belgium is more than 4 trillion euros. A writedown of around 1 trillion euros in this debt is required to bring the debt levels down to sustainable levels (say 90 per cent of ...
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ABC Online
S&P Cuts Italy Two Levels on Rise in Costs of Financing Debt
BusinessWeek
Monti has pledged to present a new plan to spur Italian growth and competitiveness at a meeting of euro-area finance chiefs on Jan. 23. AlthoughItaly's debt is larger than that of Greece, Spain, Portugal and Irelandcombined, its 2010 budget deficit ...
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ECB boosted support to Italy, Spain last week
CBS News
In fact, Spain and Italy saw their borrowing rates fall in bond auctions last week. Fears of default have led to higher interest costs, which in turn magnify default concerns in a vicious circle. Greece, Ireland and Portugal have already needed ...
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European recession
The Seattle Times
Greece, Ireland, Portugal, Spain and Britain are already in downturns -- have been, in some cases for years -- with Italy and Hungary not far behind. The big problem continues to be unsustainable sovereign debt in many eurozone member nations, ...
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Africans May Die From Sovereign Debt Crisis
Bloomberg
Spain owes $116 million of the $250 million it promised in 2010. The two countries made no commitment for last year, nor did other nations roiled by the financial crisis such as Greece, Iceland andPortugal. Spain has frozen its contributions to the ...
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Bloomberg
Euro gains as borrowing rates in Italy, Spain fall
BusinessWeek
And Spain raised double the amount of money it had hoped to at its bond auction. Investors have worried about the debt of Italy and Spain, the No. 3 and No. 4 economies among nations that use the euro. Greece, Ireland andPortugal had to be bailed out ...
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New year for the Euro: What could happen and why Americans should be concerned
PressZoom (press release)
Despite a slowly improving US economy, Americans have watched the stock market continue on its roller coaster ride, in large part because of uncertainty about the economic future of European countries, such as Greece, Portugal,Ireland, Spain and Italy ...
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Bank Dividends in Europe Set to Tumble Below Low of Post-Lehman Collapse
Bloomberg
French Bond Holdings French lenders hold $681 billion in debt issued to Greek, Irish, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese private and public borrowers, more than banks in any other country, according to data from the Bank for International Settlements. ...
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Bloomberg
World stocks rise after Spain, Italy hold successful bond issues
CanadianBusiness.com
Investors have been worried that Italy and Spain might get dragged into the region's debt crisis. Greece, Ireland and Portugal have been forced to get relief from their lenders after their borrowing costs spiked to levels the countries could no longer ...
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Ack! They Are Actually Going To Let Greece Default!
DeathRattleSports.com
But if Greece is able to get a 50% haircut from private investors, then why shouldn't Italy, Spain, Portugal and Ireland all get one? Once you start playing the haircut game, it is hard to stop it and it rapidly erodes confidence in the financial ...
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Covered Bond Buyers Retreat From Spanish Assets, Fitch Says
BusinessWeek
Spain's covered bond market is the largest in Europe with 262 billion euros ($335 billion) of outstanding debt, according to UniCredit SpA data tracking benchmark-sized transactions. Spain is seeking to avoid following Greece,Ireland and Portugal in ...
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Exodus of Workers From Continent Reverses Old Patterns
Wall Street Journal
The toll is mounting in Spain and Portugal, countries losing skilled workers to their former colonies. More people are emigrating fromSpain, Portugal, Ireland, Slovenia and Cyprus than are moving to those countries, and in Greece officials worry that ...
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Wall Street Journal
Brazilian Senator Says Greece Epitomized the Global Financial Crisis
Greek Reporter
By Fani Toli on January 14, 2012 in News Brazilian Senator Cristovam Buarque explains the lessons that Greece taught the world during 2011.”The year 2011 was the year of Greece. More than Ireland, Iceland, Spain, Portugal or Italy, Greecesymbolized ...
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Greek Reporter
Italy, Spain, Greece have had trade deficits with Germany since at least 1980 ...
FinFacts Ireland
By Michael Hennigan, Finfacts founder and editor Eurozone countries like Italy,Spain and Greece have had trade deficits with Germany since at least 1980 -- 20 years before the euro launch. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) says the euro is a ...
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Rajoy's Silence Set to Be Broken as Sarkozy Visits Madrid
BusinessWeek
That may not be enough to stop his administration from having to seek outside aid from the European Union and International Monetary Fund, followingGreece, Ireland and Spain's Iberian neighbor Portugal, said Thomas Costerg, an economist at Standard ...
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Eurozone defies the bad omens
New Europe
This will add pressure to 'sinner' administrations in Greece,Portugal, Ireland and Italy to take more austerity measures. In total the Eurozone through the EFSF/ESM - IMF and the ECB is also guaranteeing that no one of its member states will be left ...
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New Europe
S&P downgrade and implications
FXstreet.com
Here, we expect to see some flattening in the peripheral curves, such as Spainand Italy. Finally, Portugal had a strong start to 2012; again we could seePortugal lose a bit on Monday. However, as we do not expect either Ireland orPortugal to be hit ...
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Spain sees borrowing rates plunge as it raises $6.2 billion in first auction ...
Washington Post
Spain, with a swollen deficit and eurozone-high 21.5 percent unemployment rate, is struggling to avoid being dragged further into the crisis threatening the 17-country eurozone that has already forced Greece, Ireland and Italy to seek billions in ...
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Rajoy May Break Silence as Sarkozy Visits
Bloomberg
That may not be enough to stop his administration from having to seek outside aid from the European Union and International Monetary Fund, following Greece, Ireland and Spain's Iberian neighbor Portugal, said Thomas Costerg, an economist at Standard ...
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Bloomberg
Why Investors Are Still More Skeptical Of Italy Than Spain
Business Insider
The premium Italy's government is paying to borrow remains far higher than that Spain's government is paying, and market chatter continues to focus on the Italians and not the Spanish. Spain'sproblems are much more like Ireland's; both countries have ...
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Business Insider
Stocks, Euro Drop as Treasuries, Bunds Gain on Downgrade Concern
BusinessWeek
Cyprus, Italy, Portugal, and Spain were cut by two notches, S&P said. The long-term ratings on Austria, Malta, Slovakia, and Slovenia were cut one notch. Belgium, Estonia, Finland, Ireland, Luxembourg and the Netherlands also had their ratings affirmed ...
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Keep an eye on Portugal
MarketWatch (blog)
And like Italy, Portugal didn't suffer a bursting housing market bubble, asIreland and Spain did. “Its problem is not so much fiscal excesses as painfully slow growth,” Chandler said. This year, the economy is expected to shrink by 3%. ...
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Spain Lawmakers OK $11.5B Austerity Deal
TIME
Spain is battling to avert being dragged further into a debt crisis that has already forced Greece, Ireland and Portugal to seek financial bailouts. In 2010, Spain began to emerge from a near two-year recession triggered by the collapse of a property ...
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Fitch Sees a 'Significant Chance' of Italy Rating Downgrade
San Francisco Chronicle
While Italian yields slipped 4 basis points to 7.12 percent, they remain above the 7 percent level that prompted Greece, Ireland and Portugal to seek international aid. Greek bond yields slipped 17 basis points to 35.5 percent. ...
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The smell of money
UPI.com
... resolved Greece's financial difficulties, despite a series of harsh and extremely unpopular austerity measures adopted by Athens. In the meantime,Ireland, Portugal, Spain and Italy took turns making headlines that spelled out their financial woes. ...
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How Austerity Is Killing Europe » TripleCrisis
By Jeff Madrick
The European debt crisis began with Greece, and that nation remains the European Union's most stricken economy. But it has spread inexorably toIrelandPortugalItaly, and Spain, and even threatens France and possibly the UK. It need not ...
TripleCrisis
Asset Valuation Key in Equipment Disposal | Construction Events ...
By Administrator
This was revealed in their collapse in GreecePortugalItalySpain and Ireland. A combined effect of high public debt and speculation-propelled bubbles, built-up during the pre-2008 'boom years', caused the construction markets of these...
Construction Events, Expos, Exhibitio...
NewsDaily: Analysis: Rescue fund downgrade raises pressure on ...
By Jan Strupczewski
NewsDaily: Your best source for breaking news ... To boost their firepower in case Spain or Italy need financing programs like GreeceIreland and Portugal, euro zone leaders pushed forward the launch of the ESM by one year to July 2012.
NewsDaily: Top Headlines
Italy, Spain Offer $21.5 Billion of Debt in First Auctions of the New Year
Italy and Spain will seek to sell as much as 17 billion euros ($21.5 billion) in debt as ... 7 percent level that prompted Greece, Ireland and Portugal to seek bailouts, it was ... according to the median of 53 forecasts in a BloombergNews survey. ...
www.bloomberg.com/.../italy-spain-offer-21-5-billion-of-debt...
Downgrade drama: S&P lowers France, Italy, Spain, 6 others
Italy was lowered by two notches to BBB+ from A, and Spain fell to A from AA-. ... Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands,Portugal, Slovakia, ... Baroin said the downgrade was "bad news" but not "a catastrophe." ...
www.usatoday.com/money/world/story/2012-01-13/.../1
France, Italy, Spain and Portugal among nine euro nations saw ...
The possibility that Greece could default on its loans also resurfaced Friday after ... Cyprus, Italy, Portugal, and Spain were downgraded by two levels. ...
www.thestar.com/.../1115504--france-italy-spain-and-portugal...
Portugal News, Photos and Videos - ABC News
Italy and Spain fell by two notches and Portugal 's debt was consigned to junk. S . .... and other social programs. Greece, Portugal and Ireland have already ...
abcnews.go.com/topics/news/portugal.htm
Is Ireland a busted flush? Roubini School of Economics: No Irish ...
Megan Greene, who has been spot on with her analysis to date, said thatIreland along with Greece Portugal, Spain and Italy will all default and leave.
www.politics.ie/.../179044-ireland-busted-flush-roubini-school...
SmaiTawi : Message: PIIGS [Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece ...
PIIGS [Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece, & Spain] DEFAULT & what it, Topic List < Prev ... Well, if you heard the news today, they are saying 1000% chance of ...
groups.yahoo.com/group/SmaiTawi/message/35123
JPMorgan could lose $5bn from PIIGS exposure: Report - Reuters -
... up to USD 5 billion from its exposure to Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greeceand Spain, ... with Class CNBC, carried in Italian newspaper Milano Finanza on Saturday.
www.moneycontrol.com/.../jpmorgan-could-lose-365-blnpiigs...
Eurointelligence - "The Road to Nowhere" – Europe's Debt Crisis
This is precisely the experience of Greece, Ireland, Portugal and Britain as they ... Until 2008, Ireland, Spain and Italy boasted a better fiscal position and lower ...
www.eurointelligence.com/.../the-road-to-nowhere-europes-de...
Merkel, Sarkozy to seek growth, jobs for euro zone - Business ...
BREAKING NEWS: Syria issues amnesty for crimes during uprising - Reuters... on states like Spain and Italy, which are due to pay back a mountain of maturing ...
www.msnbc.msn.com/.../merkel-sarkozy-seek-growth-jobs-eu...

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