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IRELAND, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Greece News, Jan 24, 2012

Italian, French Bonds Fall as Optimism Over Greece Deal Wanes
BusinessWeek
24 (Bloomberg) -- Italian and French bonds declined as optimism waned thatGreece and its creditors will agree a debt- swap deal. Portuguese and Irishbonds also declined after Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker said the program was “off ...
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Greece Debt Exchange Would Be a Default, S&P's Chambers Says
BusinessWeek
“The future viability of that market is really undermined by what's been going on around Greece,” Cooley said at the conference. The EU and International Monetary Fund had to bail out Greece, Portugal and Ireland after their borrowing costs for 10- ...
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Part V: Indignadas and Indignados of the World, Unite !
International Viewpoint
In a number of countries (Greece, France, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Ireland, etc.) the creation of citizen debt audit collectives is a significant step towards reinforcing the Indignados movement dynamic wherever it is operating and for mounting a ...
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PROINSO ends year 2011 with supply of 303 MW worldwide, exports amounting to 88%
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
Following the company's internationalisation, Spain now accounts for 12% of the volume sold and exports have reached 88%. ? PROINSO has branches inSpain, Germany, Greece, Italy, US, UK, France, Canada, China and Czech Republic, and a Network of ...
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Analysis: Unease as countries try to cut their way to health
Reuters
... locking Greece, Ireland and Portugal out of the bond market. Deutsche Bank reckons Italy's GDP does not need to fall much further to achieve external balance, but Greece, Portugal and Spain require declines in the order of 25, 20 and 15 percentage ...
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Preppers growing in numbers as odds of a global collapse increase
Examiner.com
Besides the failure of the EU to deal with nations such as Greece, Italy, Spainand Ireland over their massive debt issues, a new agreement on January 23rd between India and Iran over the use of gold for oil is facilitating a new paradigm where the ...
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IMF Says Europe Crisis Threatens to Derail Global Economy
BusinessWeek
The IMF, which co-finances loans to Greece, Ireland and Portugal, identified a potential global financing need of $1 trillion in coming years and is seeking $500 billion in new lending resources from its member countries to address potential loan ...
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Europe Gives Euro Doomsayers Pause With Dormant Davos Sanatorium
Bloomberg
The 10-year bond yields of Portugal (GDBR10) and Irelandsurged above 7 percent and both countries followed Greece in needing bailouts. Google Miss Slowing growth is also making it harder for countries to get their budgets under control. Spain was...
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Bloomberg
Lagarde urges Europe to boost growth and firewalls
Boston.com
... pointing to the risk that Italy or Spain “could potentially be forced into a solvency crisis by abnormal financing costs.'' Those two countries are far bigger than Portugal, Ireland and Greece, which already have received bailouts, ...
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Austerity Could Again Sow Seeds of Extremism in Europe
New York Times (blog)
In Europe, the German-French pact to keep European political integration on track demands that the price for continued euro zone membership for countries that ran up big public and private debts — Portugal, Spain, Ireland, Italy and Greece — be a ...
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New York Times (blog)
* Pretax profit up around 10 pct to nearly 560 mln euros
Reuters
Its exposure to the sovereign debt of Ireland, Italy, Greece and Spain stood at a combined 84 million euros including 45 million euros of impairments on Irishand Greek debt. Those holdings amounted to around 0.3 percent of total investments.
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Tuesday Newspaper Review - Irish Business News and International Stories ...
FinFacts Ireland
In a sign of concern in the global community about the risks linked to the restructuring of the Greek national debt, IMF chief Christine Lagarde called on EU leaders to boost their bailout fund to prevent contagion spreading to Italy and Spain.
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FinFacts Ireland
Merkel coalition deaf to pleas for bigger euro "firewall"
Reuters
... which was used to bail out Ireland and Portugal and has earmarked funds for a second Greek rescue. Lagarde said in a speech in Berlin on Monday that bigger countries like Italy and Spain could be pushed into a "solvency crisis" if European ...
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S&P Cuts 259 Asset-Backed Bonds After European Downgrades
BusinessWeek
23 (Bloomberg) -- Standard & Poor's downgraded 259 European asset-backed securities after the New York-based ratings firm cut the ranking of countries including France, Italy and Spain. S&P cut 159 bonds backed by Italian loans, 81 tied to Portuguese ...
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Rebellion and reaction
Frontline
... oligarchy since the very inception of the EU, and there has been a veritable financial coup d'etat over the last three years, whose poisonous grip keeps moving from country to country, from Latvia to Ireland, Greece to Spain, Portugal to Italy.
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Frontline
Financials: From Zero To Hero
Seeking Alpha
In the third quarter, Barclays reported it had reduced its exposure to the sovereign debt of the PIIGS (Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece and Spain) by nearly a third from GBP11.6 billion ($18 billion) at the end of June to just GBP8 billion ($12 ...
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Debate heads to Dublin
DU Clarion
"We will no doubt be debating whether the fiscal policy demanded by France and Germany on those countries in the EU with troubled economies, likeGreece, Italy, Ireland and Spain, are fair, [as well as] topics like current immigration policy, ...
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'India Is More Insulated, But Not Immune To Global Spillovers'
Businessworld
There has been a change of leadership in PIIGS (Portugal, Italy,Ireland, Greece and Spain). How and when will they take to repair their sovereign balance sheets? King: The issue for these nations is whether their leaders have the political legitimacy ...
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Businessworld
Trillion dollar bazooka and $2200 gold
Stockhouse
A Currency Crisis is Looming: The "PIGS" - Portugal, Italy, Greece and Spain(or "PIIGS," if you want to include Ireland) - aren't in very good fiscal shape. And they aren't alone. Iceland has already gone over the edge. The United States, the United ...
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Raikkonen's Formula One return picks up speed
Irish Times
SPORTS DIGEST: MOTOR SPORT: Kimi Raikkonen's Formula One comeback picked up speed yesterday when the Finn got back behind the wheel of a two-year-old Renault Grand Prix car at the Valencia circuit in eastern Spain. The “Iceman”, 2007 world champion ...
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Irish Times
GUINNESS STOREHOUSE Launches New Smartphone Application
MarketWatch (press release)
The App offers fully digitized tours in English, German, Spanish, Italian and French. These tours feature unique and interactive hotspots, which showcase specific points of interest on each floor through the use of photos, video and descriptions.
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Where Our Readers #WanttoGo in 2012
New York Times (blog)
I #wanttogo to the South of Brazil. cc: @nytimes @nytimestravel I #wanttogo toSpain, Italy, Australia and possibly end up in New York for the next NYE. #travelingdreams This month? Utah for #Sundance oh & Turkey RT @nytimestravel Where do you ...
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Newspaper Briefing, including 'Oil prices rise over sanctions on Iran' - Daily ...
Proactive Investors UK
BNP Paribas cut exposure to Greece, Ireland and Portugal by almost two-fifths between June and the end October last year. Yet in the third quarter it increased loans to French companies by 5% from a year ago; loans to consumers were up by almost 7%.
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The UK: A Free Nation Deep In Debt (EWU, EWP, EWI, EWG, VGK)
ETF Daily News
The Eurozone's heaviest debtors – the ones causing such angst worldwide – are led by Ireland at 663%, with Spain(NYSEArca:EWP), Italy (NYSEArca:EWI) and Portugal all owing some 300% or more. Greece's gross debt is 267% of GDP. But there she is, ...
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ETF Daily News
The Limitations of Looking at the Big Picture
TIME
Annual yields on 10-year bonds in Greece are 33%, in Portugal14%, and in Ireland more than 8%. Hungary, which is not in the Eurozone but would still cause big problems if it defaults, has yields above 9%. Persistent yields above 8% typically mean a ...
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TIME
78 78s: In Search Of Lost Time
NPR
These songs come from a wide variety of places, including Jamaica, Serbia, Iran, Spain, Nebraska, Switzerland, Portugal, Romania, Macedonia, Italy, Uruguay, Greece, Armenia, Turkey, Egypt, Lebanon, Ireland, Vietnam, Java, Korea, Sweden, Finland, ...
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First Offensive of the Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® 3 Season of Content ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Activision maintains operations in the US, Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Sweden, Spain, Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands, Australia, South Korea, China and the region of Taiwan. More information about Activision and its ...
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Tuesday Papers: Cable outlines executive pay plans
Citywire.co.uk
The Guardian: EU leaders came under pressure from the IMF on Monday to bolster the firewall around Italy and Spain, as talks between Greece and its creditors remained in deadlock for a third week. Financial Times: Coryton refinery, one of the largest ...
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A look on the Crisis of the World Economy and its implication in Politics ...
Baltic Review
On the other side, there are the so called PIGs (Spain, Greece, Ireland, Italyand eventually United Kingdom) which by 2012 will enter into a deep depression. Also looking to the emerge economies, the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South ...
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Consolidating EFSF and ESM after the adoption of the covenant
Capital.gr (press release)
... view- believe that the consolidation will not do much difference in the rage of intervention fund, and this will still be insufficient if the needs exceed the bailout programmes in Greece, Ireland, Portugal including economies such asSpain and Italy.
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Crystal ball gaze for the new year
Canada.com
Europe's debt crisis: Greece's economic problems made news in 2011, but they weren't the end of the story in Europe. Italy, Spain, Portugal and Irelandalso faced major financial difficulties. And without definite solutions, don't be surprised to see ...
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Got Meetings? Go Global! | PSAV is At Your Service . . . Everywhere
Hospitality Net (press release)
"Destinations such as Spain, Portugal, Ireland, and Hungary are leading the way in terms of both presenting and adding value when it comes to pricing and inclusions for the corporate meeting and conference business," Burke said. "Interestingly, Germany ...
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Preparation of Eurogroup and Economic and Finance Ministers Council, Brussels ...
IEWY News
Stability developments in the euro area, including monitoring of vulnerable Member States (AAT) Ministers will focus, in particular, in the latest developments in Italy and Spain. In Italy, important progress has been made since the last meeting of the ...
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Eurozone private sector returns to growth
Financial Times
Big divergences remained across the eurozone, but Gilles Moec, European economist at Deutsche Bank, said the latest readings also pointed to an improvement in countries such as Italy, Spain and Ireland. “Any signs of mere stabilisation, ...
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Fiscal Monitor Report Update: Deficits in many advanced economies fell ...
FinFacts Ireland
The IMF says cyclically adjusted (the total budget deficit minus the effects of the business cycle) balance also strengthened substantially in Spain, while France and Italy posted more modest improvements, as measures announced or approved in these ...
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FinFacts Ireland
Government bonds: safe haven or danger zone?
Citywire.co.uk
... and government bonds, says: 'I am holding some sovereign debt, including US Treasuries and German, Dutch, French and Irish government bonds. 'Despite the yields on offer, I am not tempted by the bonds of Greece, Italy orSpain as things stand.
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'The Muppets' take Madrid: Fans see Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy (Video)
Examiner.com
As America got the chance to see The Muppets in theaters over Thanksgiving, the fans in Spain, Italy, Greece, Ireland and even the UK have theater opening dates at the end of January and the first part of February. Take a look at the video clip of Miss ...
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US looks buoyant compared with Britain
Brisbane Times
Britain's banks have $US359 billion of exposure to the GIIPS quintet of Greece,Ireland, Italy, Portugal and Spain. This is no longer theoretical. Haircuts have begun in Greece. Yet even if banks are excluded, Britain still has debts of 288 per cent, ...
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High Five: Old Firm, SuperClasico Among Football's Greatest Derbies
The Hard Tackle
It is no coincidence that there are two Italian derbies on this list. The Italiansare passionate people, period. Since the world is mostly focused on Spain's El Clasico this season (and all of last season, to a point where some fans have started to ...
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Pursue Your Passions at Sea: Specialty Cruises
USA TODAY (blog)
For the ultimate in intimate adventures, you even can captain your own vessel with one of Le Boat's fleet of more than 1000 watercraft along the rivers, lakes, lochs and canals of France, Germany, Italy, Ireland, Belgium, the Netherlands,...
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'Ben & Holly's Little Kingdom' Animation News
Animation Insider
Recent television sales for Ben & Holly's Little Kingdom include Yoyo (Italy), TV Clan (Spain), RTE (Ireland), and national broadcast group RTP (Portugal). The animated series is already available in more than 150 viewing territories, which certainly ...
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Country By Country Analysis Of Fossil Fuel Burning-Based Carbon Debt And ...
CounterCurrents.org
... Japan (3069), Italy (3515), Spain (2671), Ukraine (2643), Canada (2617), Poland (2204), Romania (1241), Netherlands (967), Belgium (627), Greece(624), Czech Republic (611), Portugal (611), Hungary (578), Belarus (548), Sweden (548), Austria (487), ...
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TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee"): Deleveraging debt
By Minnesotastan
Debt deleveraging is important because eventually you're paying all of your current income to pay the interest on your debt (see GreeceIreland andPortugal and Italy and Spain if they don't get their acts together soon). What those charts ...
TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee")
Relief in Spain, tension in Greece for euro zone - Business - World ...
Ireland passed the latest review of its European Union-International Monetary... in 2012, according to draft document reported by the Italian news agency ANSA.
www.msnbc.msn.com/.../relief-spain-tension-greece-euro-zone...
Euro Gains as Borrowing Rates in Italy, Spain Fall - ABC News
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 and Portugalhad to ...
abcnews.go.com/.../euro-gains-borrowing-rates-italy-spain-fall...

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