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

Stocks up but Eurozone Crisis Stalks Bond Auctions
ABC News
High borrowing costs have already pushed Greece, Ireland and Portugal to take bailouts, but Spain and Italy are much bigger — the No. 3 and No. 4 eurozone economies — and could easily overwhelm the eurozone's rescue fund. Asian stocks slumped early ...
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European economic crisis has finally reached boiling point
Highlander Newspaper
Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece and Spain became known as the PIGGS, a fitting acronym for countries that gorged themselves on government spending at the trough of the bond markets. Countries in the EU are known for lavish government spending on ...
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Economic Gloom Deepens Europe's Political Crisis
Wall Street Journal
The leaders of Greece, Portugal, Ireland, Spain and Italy also have been forced out recently as the region's economy worsens. Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte and his cabinet have resigned after failing to reach agreement on reducing the country's ...
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Stocks mixed after Monday's slide
USA TODAY
High borrowing costs have already pushed Greece, Ireland andPortugal to take bailouts, but Spain and Italy are much bigger — the No. 3 and No. 4 eurozone economies — and could easily overwhelm the eurozone's rescue fund. Asian stocks slumped early ...
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USA TODAY
Banco Santander: Tantalizing Value Or High-Risk Investing?
Seeking Alpha
... impact on many European economies, particularly those with high government debt leading to a eurozone wide economic slowdown, which has been most sharply felt in those countries on the periphery: Portugal, Ireland,Italy, Greece and Spain (PIIGS).
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Dutch PM Resigns, Clears Way For Elections
NPR
Spain, Italy, Greece, Ireland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, the list of governments that have been toppled by the eurozone crisis was already getting long. Now one of the zone's star performers has added its name. NPR's Philip Reeves reports on the ...
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Bund Yield 3 Basis Points From Record Low Before Auctions
BusinessWeek
Since Europe's debt crisis began, leaders have been ousted in Ireland,Portugal, Greece, Italy, Spain, Slovenia, Slovakia and Finland. German 10-year yields rose six basis points to 1.7 percent after dropping to an all-time low of 1.633 percent ...
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European worries over Franco-German ties
Gulf Times
By Harold James/Princeton Over the past two years, financial markets have turned the spotlight on a succession of countries –Greece, Ireland, Portugal, Spain, and Italy – turning each into the epicentre of a seemingly perpetual European financial ...
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Gulf Times
Nightmare week for Angela Merkel as austerity bloc crumbles
Telegraph.co.uk
Keynesians blame budget cuts, convinced that the pace of fiscal tightening - a net 2.5pc of GDP in Spain and 3.5pc in Italy -is beyond any sensible therapeutic dose, and already shown to be self-defeating in Greece, where economic collapse has left the...
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Telegraph.co.uk
ECB Nowotny: No Chance Of General Joint Euro Bonds
Equities.com
The EFSF is a joint facility of the 17 nations that use the euro that has so far provided bailouts to Greece, Portugal and Ireland, which have been among the hardest hit by the region's sovereign debt crisis. Without the ability to issue joint general ...
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German People Not Happy With Bailouts
The New American
As financial analysts look at the finance ministries and the economies ofGreece, Portugal, Italy, and Spain, it seems as if the moment one crisis passes another arises. Recently, concern about a possible default on Spanish bonds is driving down the ...
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Hollande Meets German Resistance in Anti-Austerity Push
BusinessWeek
The euro-area crisis in Europe has resulted in the ouster of leaders in Ireland,Portugal, Greece, Italy, Spain, Slovenia, Slovakia and Finland. The European Commission “often calls on the region's leaders not to give in to the temptation of populist ...
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EU plans for possible break-up
CBS News
Spain is worse off than Greece two years ago Italian government admits economy in worse shape As Spain falters, IMF rethinks rescue strategies The Greek newspaper Kathimerini reports, "EIB sources suggest that the currency-change clause will be ...
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Hollande Meets German Resistance in Call to Drop Austerity
San Francisco Chronicle
Protective Europe The euro-area crisis in Europe has resulted in the ouster of leaders in Ireland, Portugal, Greece, Italy, Spain, Slovenia, Slovakia and Finland. The European Commission "often calls on the region's leaders not to give in to the ...
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Euro crisis is not over. Just how surprised should you be?
Business Insider
It is true for Greece, Ireland, Italy, Portugal and Spain, as we have saw strikes and protests countless times in there peripheral countries. Perhaps the only surprising thing now is that Netherlands, which was regarded as a core country, also revolted ...
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Stocks up but eurozone crisis stalks bond auctions
STLtoday.com
High borrowing costs have already pushed Greece, Ireland and Portugal to take bailouts, but Spain and Italy are much bigger _ the No. 3 and No. 4 eurozone economies _ and could easily overwhelm the eurozone's rescue fund. Asian stocks slumped early ...
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Guest Commentary: The Straw That Breaks the Camel's Back - Spain
DailyFX
Another option is that Spain could ask to join the aid program that Ireland,Greece and Portugal are already on. However, the limited capacity of the rescue-fund could see the fund stretched thin if it has to support both Italy andSpain, ...
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Portugal's Finance Minister: We Tried Stimulus and It Didn't Work
New York Times
The yield on Portuguese government bonds – more than 11 percent on longer-term bonds — is substantially higher than the yields on debt issued byIreland, Spain or Italy. Mr. Gaspar says the yields are “not a reflection of the fundamentals.
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Stocks up but eurozone crisis stalks bond auctions
WTOP
High borrowing costs have already pushed Greece, Ireland andPortugal to take bailouts, but Spain and Italy are much bigger _ the No. 3 and No. 4 eurozone economies _ and could easily overwhelm the eurozone's rescue fund. Asian stocks slumped early ...
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WTOP
Czech PM Seeks Confidence Vote to Show Budget-Cut Force
BusinessWeek
The debt crisis in Europe has already resulted in the ouster of leaders inIreland, Portugal, Greece, Italy, Spain, Slovenia, Slovakia, and Finland. Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte's Cabinet offered to quit yesterday after the Freedom Party withdrew ...
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The Pain in Spain, Debt Spiral and Housing Market Crash
The Market Oracle
Should Spain be denied access to the capital markets like Portugal, Ireland, and Greece and come to rely on help from the public sector, the available resources would be severely strained. Should both Spain and Italy rely on financing, there simply ...
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Nippon Life: to boost holdings of emerging mkt stocks
Reuters
The company does not have any debt from Spain, Portugal, Ireland andGreece, however. More broadly, Nissay held about 2.2 trillion yen of unhedged foreign bonds at the end of the last business year, after selling a net 410 billion yen's worth.
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European finances still in bad shape, statistics show
EUobserver.com
The worst figures continued to be registered in Ireland (13.1%) and Greece(9.1%), two bailed-out countries, followed by Spain (8.5%), the UK (8.3%) and Slovenia (6.4%), well above the three-percent deficit threshold set out under EU rules.
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Dutch government falls in skirmish over austerity measures
Washington Post
But there also are fears that a change of direction could lead investors to turn away from lending money to nations such as Italy and Spain — much as the markets already abandoned Greece, Ireland and Portugal — and force a new round of costly ...
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Global Financial Stability: What's Still to Be Done?
Huffington Post (blog)
At the national level, stronger policies are being put in place in Italy and Spain; a new agreement has been reached on Greece; and Ireland and Portugal are making good progress in implementing their respective programs.
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Stocks up but eurozone crisis stalks bond auctions
New Jersey Herald
High borrowing costs have already pushed Greece, Ireland and Portugal to take bailouts, but Spain and Italy are much bigger - the No. 3 and No. 4 eurozone economies - and could easily overwhelm the eurozone's rescue fund. Asian stocks slumped early ...
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The choice: dynamic capitalism vs. the welfare state
MSN Money
But at the same time, the US unemployment rate is quite a bit lower than inGreece, Spain, Ireland, and Portugal, a bit lower than in Italy, and very similar to the UK With such a mixed outcome, it's difficult to support the claim that the free market ...
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Euro zone a long way from home run on recovery
Irish Times
The notion that the crisis was over was to prove decidedly premature, however, as the siesta was brought to an abrupt end by mounting stress in Spain, an economy that is twice the size of the combined national outputs of Greece,Ireland and Portugal.
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Europe's debt fix falters, rattling markets
BusinessWeek
New governments in Spain and Italy got to work on improving growth. Now the first pillar of Europe's approach -- austerity -- is faltering. "Europe has not solved its problems, and the austerity programs are making things worse, not better," said Peter ...
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Stocks down on eurozone fears, political turmoil
BusinessWeek
Bailed-out Greece, Ireland and Portugal are on enforced diets of cutbacks.Spain and Italy, however, have recently had to let deficit-reduction targets slip.Italy's Prime Minister Mario Monti and Christine Lagarde, the head of the International ...
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Tamper with France at your peril? - Today's World News
San Francisco Luxury News
In Sarkozy's case he is threatened by Generals Greece, Italy, Ireland,Portugal, Spain and now Holland – where leaders of all political colours have fallen in response to a sharp economic downturn. France's Far Right leadership is urging its historic ...
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Spain and EU deficit calculations add up; Ireland beats target
Gulf Times
In its release, Eurostat said indebted Italy's deficit came in at 3.9% of gross domestic product, as Rome had earlier reported. Portugal and Greece, both saved from insolvency by emergency eurozone funding, were confirmed as having deficits of 4.2% and ...
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Austerity Leads to Rising Debt in Euro Zone: Commerzbank
CNBC.com
“Not only Portugal, but Spain, too, has seen its budget deficit rise on the year in the first two months of 2012. Nor have Greece,Ireland or Italy made any progress in fiscal consolidation in the first months of this year,” said Weil.
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CNBC.com
Prison Planet.com » EU Unraveling – Now It's Holland's Turn
By admin
Now it's Holland's turn. We learn that austerity hasn't been a soft sell in Holland any more than it has been in GreecePortugalSpain or Italy. Or Ireland, for that matter. Of course, we figure the elites orchestrated first the downfall of Europe, ...
Prison Planet.com
Europe's banks: leaving the zone of turbulence?
By laurence-df
In the aftermath of the crisis, the public finances of the Southern euro zone countries – PortugalItalySpain and Greece – and Ireland (the “PIIGS”) have, in turn, been severely weakened. Greece was forced to suspend payments, and the risk ...
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S&P: Citigroup Net Exposure to Greece, Ireland, Portugal, Italy and ...
Free Streaming News ... More Good News For Colombia ETF (GXG, AND) ...S&P : Citigroup Net Exposure to Greece, Ireland, Portugal, Italy and SpainTotalled ...
www.benzinga.com/.../s-p-citigroup-net-exposure-to-greece-ir...
Spanish Banks Gorging on Sovereign Bonds Shifts Risk ...
Spanish, Italian and Portuguese banks are loading up on bonds issued by their own governments, ... News From Bloomberg ... For lenders in so-called peripheral countries -- Spain, Portugal, Ireland, Greece and Italy -- profit also was an ...
www.businessweek.com/.../spanish-banks-gorging-on-soverei...
EuroCrisis, Ireland, Italy, Portugal and Spain More Defaults Certain ...
The economic austerity programs demanded by the ECB, IMF and World Bank have adopted by the GIIPS - Greece, Ireland, Italy, Portugal and Spain - the move ...
www.ibtimes.com/.../eurocrisis-ireland-italy-portugal-spain-m...
Spanish Banks Gorging on Sovereign Bonds Shifts Risk to Taxpayer
For lenders in so-called peripheral countries -- Spain, Portugal, Ireland,Greece and Italy -- profit also was an inducement: They could borrow at 1 percent to buy ...
www.bloomberg.com/.../spanish-banks-gorging-on-sovereign-...
Spain, Italy won't need bailouts: poll
Spain and Italy won't need to resort to international bailouts as they battle through ... that Spain or Italy will soon go the way of Portugal, Greece andIreland by ...
www.thestar.com/.../1164314--spain-italy-won-t-need-bailouts...
'We're back in full crisis mode': Fears grow that Spain could need ...
MailOnline - news, sport, celebrity, science and health stories .... what will happen Ireland will apply to rejoin the U.K. and Greece Spain Portugal Italywill leave ...
www.dailymail.co.uk/.../Were-crisis-mode-Fears-grow-Spain-...
Dutch PM Resigns, Clears Way For Elections : NPR
From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Robert Siegel. MELISSA BLOCK, HOST: And I'm Melissa Block. Spain, Italy, Greece,Ireland, Portugal, ...
www.npr.org/2012/.../dutch-pm-resigns-clears-way-for-electio...
Germany sees upswing amid eurozone turmoil - US News and ...
Spain and Italy are seeing higher costs to borrow money on bond markets and... costs and fears of default have already pushed Greece, Ireland and Portugal to ...
www.usnews.com/.../german-business-confidence-index-up-fo...
ZEW reports rise in German investor optimism - Business ...
Business, Government Legal News from throughout WVZEW reports rise in ...in indebted countries including Greece, Ireland, Portugal, Spain and Italy are...
www.statejournal.com/.../zew-reports-rise-in-german-investor-...
Spanish Debt Triggered New Market Unrest – Europe's Problems ...
They had found a formula for rescuing Greece, the real, (but relatively small), basket case ... the other offenders: Ireland, Portugal, Italy and Spain on an austerity diet that was supposed to ... This bad news immediately precipitated a mini crisis.
schirachreport.com/.../spanish-debt-triggered-new-market-unr...
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