| Peripheral Euro-zone, Italy Default Insurance Costs Rise Wall Street Journal LONDON (Dow Jones)--The cost of insuring the sovereign debt of Portugal, Spain, Ireland and Italy using credit default swaps rose Friday as worries about ... See all stories on this topic » |
| Ireland's Medicine Too Harsh for Others: David Blanchflower Bloomberg ... as Portugal, Greece, Spain and even Italy. Ireland is a good deal wealthier than these countries, and it has seen income rise more from euro membership. ... See all stories on this topic » |
| Thinking the Unthinkable in Europe Project Syndicate With Ireland's troubles threatening to spill over to Portugal, Spain, and even Italy, it is time to rethink the viability of Europe's currency union. ... See all stories on this topic » |
| EU reassures Greece on loan extension BusinessWeek ... the pressure in debt markets that forced Ireland's rescue last week and threatened to engulf Portugal as well as larger economies like Spain and Italy. ... See all stories on this topic » |
| Italian Treasury Has More Than $40 Billion in Reserves, Debt Chief Says Bloomberg Italy's debt reached 1.76 trillion euros last year, more than that of Spain, Portugal, Ireland and Greece combined. At 116 percent of gross domestic product ... See all stories on this topic » |
| Dollar climbs after Fitch cuts Ireland's ratings Bloomberg The European Union bailed out Ireland because of its soaring borrowing costs following the rescue of Greece in May. Investors are nervous that Portugal or ... See all stories on this topic » |
| Bank of Ireland Has "Glitches" on Day of Budget Vote The New American Ireland has been following the path of Greece and Spain: Increasingly more of the national economy is, effectively, mortgaged to international organizations ... See all stories on this topic » |
| Deutsche Bank Proposes Plan B to Help ECB Fight Debt Turmoil: Euro Credit Bloomberg For its part, Deutsche Bank's total net exposure to central and local governments in Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece and Spain totaled 10.1 billion euros ... See all stories on this topic » |
| Introduction To Asian Financial Markets San Francisco Chronicle ADRs are negotiable certificates issued by a US bank representing a specified number of shares (or one share) in a foreign stock that is traded on a US ... See all stories on this topic » |
| Charities and non-profits still feel the pinch Vancouver Sun The stock market crash of 2008 and the bailout of banks and multinational corporations shook the economic foundations of governments, and with so much money ... See all stories on this topic » |
| China Raises Bank Reserve Levels to Curb Lending ABC News AP By JOE McDONALD AP Business Writer China ordered its banks to increase their reserves Friday in a move to curb lending as financial markets watched for a ... See all stories on this topic » |
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| AFP to decide if Assange has broken law The Australian THE federal Attorney-General has again been unable to say what law WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange may have broken. Robert McClelland has said it is illegal in Australia to obtain or distribute classified documents. The nation's first law officer came ... See all stories on this topic » | |||||
| Russia's Putin raps U.S. over leaked cables Reuters By Gleb Bryanski MOSCOW (Reuters) - Prime Minister Vladimir Putin attacked the United States on Thursday over secret US diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks, saying the West had no right to preach to Russia about democracy. ... See all stories on this topic » | |||||
| Heavy rains kill 10 in Panama, force Canal to close Fox News Panama City – Panamanian President Ricardo Martinelli confirmed the deaths of eight people resulting from days of heavy rains, raising to 10 the number of fatalities from a storm that has forced authorities to temporarily close the Panama Canal. ... See all stories on this topic » | |||||
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| Human Rights Around the Globe Still Uneven Voice of America It's been 62 years since the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was written and the anniversary is marked around the world Friday, December 10. Femi Peters Junior is battling the Gambian authorities in order to get his father freed from prison. ... See all stories on this topic » | |||||
| River guide believed killed by crocodile in Congo CNN International By the CNN Wire Staff Hendrik Coetzee was pulled from his kayak by a crocodile on the Lukuga River, according to the expedition sponsor's blog. (CNN) -- A renowned South African whitewater guide and outdoorsman was apparently pulled from his kayak by a ... See all stories on this topic » | |||||
| Lebanon holds its breath over leaked revelations Independent By Robert Fisk in Beirut Julian Assange may claim that WikiLeaks' disclosure of US documents is for the good of the world, but in Lebanon they have had an incendiary effect. The Hezbollah party is using the cables as proof of UN involvement with ... See all stories on this topic » | |||||
| Diplomats spoke of "fatal" Cuban economy in cable Reuters HAVANA (Reuters) - Diplomats from several countries said Cuba's economic situation could become "fatal" within two to three years while a Chinese diplomat groused that discussing reforms with the Cuban government was "a real headache," according to a ... See all stories on this topic » | |||||
| Track Star Reportedly Among 14Detained in Inquiry in Spain New York Times By AP The world steeplechase champion Marta Domínguez and the doctor at the center of cycling's biggest doping investigation were among a reported 14 people detained across Spain by the Spanish Civil Guard in a new investigation. ... See all stories on this topic »
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