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Aug 17, 2011

SPORTS, Athletics News, Aug 17, 2011


Three Soccer Players Named to Hermann Trophy Watch List

Army sophomore Molly McGuigan

Patriot League Official Athletic Site
Three Patriot League soccer student-athletes, including two male and one female, were named to the Missouri Athletic Club's (MAC) 2011 Hermann Trophy Watch List, it was announced Monday by the National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA). ...
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HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS: Preseason scramble begins for teams
Kennebec Journal
Every athlete on a fall team will be involved, Cony athletic director Paul Vachon said. The games begin Monday with a boys soccer game at 5:30 followed by girls soccer at 7. On Tuesday the field hockey teams will meet with the football teams scheduled ...
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High school athletes start fall sports season
Scranton Times-Tribune
By Ashley Teatum (Staff Writer) Butch Comegys / Staff Photographer Storm clouds linger during the first official day of fall sports practice as the Scranton Prep girlssoccer team works out Monday afternoon at Loyola Athletic Complex in Scranton. ...
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Scranton Times-Tribune
GW Men's Soccer Head Coach George Lidster to Retire Following 2011 Season
George Washington University - Official Athletic Site
"I am very fortunate to have spent 23 seasons at this exceptional academic institution coaching a sport which has been my passion since childhood," said Coach Lidster. "I would like to thank the athletic administration at GW for their tremendous ...
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George Washington University - Official Athletic Site
Sports Sideline - August 17, 2011
Santa Rosa Press Gazette
Gospel Projects Soccer Sign-ups: Gospel Projects Youth Athletic Club for co-ed youth soccerregistration for this fall will run through the last Saturday in August. The season begins Sept. 19 and will run through Nov. 22. Children ages 4 through 13 are ...
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Athletes keep gym, fields busy
St. George Daily Spectrum
All athletes must complete 10 practice days before they are eligible to play in an athletic contest.Football, volleyball and boys soccer will open their respective seasons on Aug. 26. Football hosts Valley High School of Las Vegas at 7 pm at the Dawg ...
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WATTS Center Nears Completion
My Valley Sports
Football, softball, baseball, soccer, track, and the list goes on... that's the list of athletic programs that will benefit from the nearly complete WATTS Center. YSU says the facility has everythingathletic programs need to keep on track. ...
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Era of Oceanside Mariners cruises in
knox.VillageSoup.com
Boys soccer, girls soccer, cross county, football and field hockey tryouts began Monday, with roughly 200 student-athletes vying for spots on varsity, junior varsity and freshmen squads. All Mariner teams will participate in the Kennebec Valley ...
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Don't forget to stretch: Stretching is necessary for athletes
Yahoo! Sports
Contributor Network 4 hours, 56 minutes ago Before practice for nearly any sport, athletes stretch. In high school sports, stretching is a group activity prior to practice. Before football games, soccer games and races, spectators can see athletes ...
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Yahoo! Sports
Dover Middle School sports start-up dates
Foster's Daily Democrat
Soccer is open to students in grades 7 and 8. Field hockey players are asked to bring a stick, water bottle, and mouthpiece to practice and are required to wear protective eyewear to all games and practices (please contact the Dover Athletic department ...
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University School soccer team aims for third straight Premier Athletic ...
Plain Dealer
By Brian Lavrich, Sun News The University School soccer team will look to continue its dominance of the Premier Athletic Conference and, with eight starters coming back, the Preppers are in good position. US will be playing in its third year in the PAC ...
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Worst Sports Owners Tournament: Baseball/Hockey/Soccer Round 2
AthlonSports.com
Her platform was supposed to be bolstered by something called “Dodgers University,” which would include after-school programs for children, adult literacy classes, and sports business seminars. (Reportedly, the WAC has already invited the DU football ...
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Byron Center football, soccer fans can check out renovated stadium
MLive.com
The soccer field has new lights, fencing and landscaping, and a reconfigured spectator area. "This is fantastic. It has been a wonderful process to see history change from old school to new," Byron Center athletic director Karl Nelson said. ...
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UHS athletic complex ceremony delayed
Champaign/Urbana News-Gazette
"We were going to have a ribbon cutting ceremony," said athletic director Gregory Hall. "We were going to march our athletes into the field wearing their gear." That would have been followed by a set of football and soccer scrimmages, the first public ...
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ESPN
La Liga is producing some of the most thrilling, spectacular, engaging, inventive and uplifting footballin the history of this sport. I demand that right-thinking people within Spanish soccer, and those who look in on it from around the world, ...
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The First Signs of Fall Sports
Patch.com
“This week is a bit of orientation for the teams, getting the teams ready and the players used to waking up early,” athletic director Pat Boyle said. Many teams started the day with a run: the Conestoga boys' soccer team completed a two-mile timed run ...
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OBU takes second straight Sooner Athletic Conference Cup
Shawnee News Star
The annual award measures the best athletics program for the year. Each of the 12 schools in the SAC is scored based on regular season standings. In sports in which standings are not relevant (track, cross country and golf) the conference meet or ...
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Men's Soccer Ranked Fifth in SAC Poll
JBU Athletics
The JBU men's soccer team was picked fifth after receiving 67 votes in the 2011 Preseason SoonerAthletic Conference Men's Soccer Coaches' Poll released Monday. The Eagles finished the 2010 season with an 11-8-1 record overall and fourth place finish ...
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Mighty résumé for Seton's Quinn
Cincinnati.com
St. X adds four to Hall of Fame St. Xavier will induct four individuals to its athletic hall of fame in February. Jason Basil (Class of 1997 for baseball), Jayme Cramer (2001, swimming), Shawn Rockey (1994, soccer and wrestling) and team physician Dr. ...
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High School Sports Gameday
Charlotte Observer
Fall Sports: Charlotte Latin's soccer team played Friday, a few Charlotte Mecklen Schools teams played Monday and there's a heavy schedule Tuesday night. High school sports are back. UP Davidson Day football: First-year varsity program won the Forsyth ...
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College football needs a division of its own
Fort Worth Star Telegram
This is not a call to abolish all non-revenue sports. It is a call for regionalization. Immediately. TV doesn't care about any other sport other than football or men's basketball, and chances are very good that the athletic department heads don't ...
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Does your infant really need baby cleats?
MyNorthwest.com
By Chris Sullivan Newborns can get a leg-up on their athletic competition before they even realize they like soccer, football or golf. A mother-daughter combination from Kirkland have designed cleats for infants. They are another in a long line of ...
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LA Tech receives $1 million donation for football reno
KSLA-TV
Additionally, the facility will include new coaches' offices and locker rooms for football, baseball,soccer, tennis, softball, golf and track and field. It will house a new administrative suite with offices and meeting areas for the University's ...
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Women's Soccer Trio Nabs Preseason National Honors
Notre Dame Official Athletic Site
Henderson is a double honoree, joining Barg on the 45-player watch list for the 2011 Missouri Athletic Club Hermann Trophy (presented annually by the National SoccerCoaches Association of America to the nation's top Division I player), ...
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Notre Dame Official Athletic Site
New Stevenson Stadium Officially Opens Sept. 1
Press Box
In just more than a year, the University of Maryland has welcomed a new president,athletic director, and head coaches in men's lacrosse, football and men's basketball. But the coach of the school's men's soccer program has remained, and that's a good...
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Wet weather ushers in fall sports
Carlisle Sentinel
At Mechanicsburg, the field hockey and football teams were on the field and the soccer team was on the track doing a conditioning run prior to practice, since there had been no rain in that area. The Wildcats soccer team had a special visitor as Bobby ...
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Sports Briefs
Daily Herald
Kansas State sports information director Kenny Lannou said the network is an extension of more limited service already offered through the school's athletics website provider, CBS College Network. Subscribers will pay the same amount -- $9.95 per month ...
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Scorpions rediscover their sting
Pueblo Chieftain
The Scorpions, who were without football in their sports lineup last fall, are returning to the gridiron in 2011. DHPH held its first official practice in nearly two years Monday. Monday was the fall high school reporting date for football, boys soccer ...
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Sports briefs
The Salem News
Manchester Essex has openings for varsity and jayvee girls soccer coaches, a boys jayvee soccercoach and a freshman football coach. Contact athletic director Kelly Porcaro at 978-526-2066 or at www.mersd.org The 41st annual four person 10 mile relay ...
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MSOE Raider News
MSOE
Eight seniors will ensure that the MSOE women's soccer team will have plenty of experience and leadership in 2011. The Raiders are coming off a school best 8-2-2 record in Northern AthleticsConference action. MSOE was 11-7-2 overall last year ...
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Kansas Wesleyan soccer players die in car wreck
Hutchinson News
"Their loss is not only a loss for the soccer program, but the entire university." l Dallas named AD - Kansas Wesleyan named football coach Dave Dallas as its new athletic director. Dallas began his duties as AD on Monday. Dallas will continue to serve ...
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Carroll basketball pioneer Browning honored
Madison Courier
Others being inducted into the UK Hall of Fame in September are: baseball's Jeff Abbott, soccer'sIikka Jantti, tennis player Cedric Kauffman, football quarterback Bill Ransdell and athletic director Russell Rice.
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Cross-Country Saved For Duval Schools
WJXT Jacksonville
Cross-country, along with varsity golf, slow-pitch softball, wrestling, lacrosse and tennis, and junior varsity soccer, were placed on the chopping block because of Duval County School District budget cuts. Golf, the other fall sport that, ...
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Coastal Bend recreational, youth sports calendar: 08.16.11
Corpus Christi Caller Times
Call 851-8952. South Texas Youth Football League accepting early online registration for ages 5-12. Go two www.styfl.net. AllAmericanSportsRecruiting.com is enrolling high school student-athletes to promote for college athletic scholarships. ...
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Ajax Elite
STLtoday.com
Our focus is to provide a soccer organization where your child will grow and develop, not only as asoccer player, but also as a person. We believe that children of all ages should not be limited to onesport, but in turn participate in multiple sports ...
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Women's Soccer Ranked Third in SAC Poll
JBU Athletics
The JBU women's soccer team was picked third after receiving 92 votes in the 2011 Preseason Sooner Athletic Conference Women's Soccer Coaches' Poll released Monday. The Lady Eagles finished the 2010 season with a 15-5-1 record overall and second place ...
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Sportsmen of Westport honors nine individuals
Westport-News
Nikki Zeoli-Porzio never played sports in high school. But after graduating from Staples in 1980, she made her mark in athletics at the highest national level. Porzio won the 1993 women's national championship at the All Natural Bodybuilding ...
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Swansea City (soccer team) vs Wigan Athletic (soccer team)
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IRELAND, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Greece News, Aug 17, 2011


Euro bonds: Magic bullet for debt crisis?
CNNMoney
But higher rates in Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Spain and Greece are troubling. A euro bond could help push rates lower. NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Many key European nations share a common currency, but not a common debt load. That has to change. Now. ...
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Sarkozy and Merkel Call for Closer Euro Coordination
Ocala
As Mrs. Merkel arrived at the Élysée Palace, she and Mr. Sarkozy faced mounting pressure to forge a joint approach to a widening economic crisis that has already engulfed Ireland, Greece andPortugal and threatens to pull in Spain and Italy as well. ...
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Berlusconi Embraces Tax Hikes to Save Italy
The New American
Unlike the relatively small economies of Greece, Ireland and Portugal, Italy has one of the largest economies in the world and the fourth largest in Europe. Anything approaching a meltdown in that country would ripple across Europe. ...
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Smallest Yield Curve Gap Between US and Japan in 19 Years Confirming Deflation
The Market Oracle
The austerity measures in Italy, Greece, Ireland, Spain, and Portugal will turn the recession into a mighty one. Spain and Greece are clearly in recession now, the rest of Europe will soon follow (if it is not in recession already). ...
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Banks' exposure to stressed countries amounts to 24 per cent of their capital
Times of Malta
It covers Greece, Ireland, Portugal and Spain. Domestic banks are largely exposed to private sector bonds and interbank loans with exposure to sovereign debt amounting to about 11 per cent of exposures in the stressed countries. ...
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A Reason For The August Stock Market Crash, Oct Pending
Daily Markets
We know folks in Portugal, Ireland and Greece took their funds out of their banks and purchased gold, Swiss franc and Yen. But things just moved to defcon 2, Italy and Spain banks have deposits falling, the money is finding other 'non Euro' safe places ...
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Enough stimulus already
Prince Albert Daily Herald
The reason why Greece, Ireland, Italy, Portugal and Spain are in such awful financial shape is because the governments of those countries spent far more than they brought in over many years - a decades-long stimulus plan, if you will. ...
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Warning from Europe
Town Hall
Terrible riots in Britain, Greece and France, along with potential financial collapse in Italy, Ireland,Portugal and Spain, show that even the most lavish entitlements can't buy prosperity or peaceful streets. As Europe tries to balance its books, ...
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Research and Markets: Insulin - Global - Overview of the Actual Situation ...
SunHerald.com
... Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldova, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Ukraine, the United Kingdom, Armenia, ...
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Will USA and EU succeed in putting S&P, Moody's and Fitch in their place?
«Market Leader» - news and previews making you rich.
After the incident with France's credit rating the French joined the army of “Big 3” haters (Greece, Portugal , Spain , Ireland, Italy). According to an independent survey conducted by the French tabloid «Liberation», the respondents blame the agencies ...
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Eye of the Storm
IBTimes Canada
Each bailout only multiplies spreading the infection to other nations New worries of a third bailout forGreece, another for Ireland, Portugal, Italy, Spain and now with France only proves the inability to fix the economic problems. ...
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U.K. Debt Plan Can't Cover All Its Sins
Wall Street Journal
It's also got its own currency, so, unlike the travails of Greece, Portugal, Ireland, Italy or Spain, its woes don't require the endless fearful summitry of a disapproving euro zone, where progress comes in tiny increments if at all. ...
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COLUMN: Benny and 'The Beast' — An economic allegory
Destin Log
It's not just the economic problems of the PIIGS (Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece and Spain). The market tumbled on Wednesday, Aug. 10 over worries that France would suffer a downgrade and lose its AAA debt rating. A bigger issue is this: when will ...
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Six Steps To Financial Doomsday STEP #2: Government Debt Exploding!
istockAnalyst.com (press release)
Now, with Europe's economy slowing, the tax revenues needed to service all of that debt are disappearing. The economies of Greece and Portugal have been in recession for some time now. Growth in Spain and Italy is virtually non-existent. ...
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Motor Vehicle Engines - Global
PR Newswire (press release)
... Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iran, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Lithuania, Macedonia, Malaysia, Mexico, Morocco, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, ...
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“Dear Investor, Please Shut Up”
Daily Reckoning - Australian Edition
About €420 billion of that is already committed to Portugal, Ireland, and Greece. That leaves €300 billion. And that used to be a lot of money. --But it's not nearly enough to cover the refinancing needs of Italy and Spain. Those two counties require ...
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Tuesday Bounce? Merkel-Sarkozy Meet Unlikely To Deliver
Forbes
German officials have already hinted that a eurobond to save Greece, Portugal, Italy, Ireland and now, Spain, is off the table. “The only results of these meetings will be vague statements that will try to buy some time while northern European nations ...
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Stocks Retreat After Merkel, Sarkozy Disappoint
KETV Omaha
The long-running debt crises in Greece, Portugal and Ireland accelerated in the second quarter, and investors are also worried that Europe's larger economies -- including Spain and Italy -- may need to be bailed out. "The data confirm that the region's ...
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10 U.S. - Listed European Dividend Stocks Yielding 6% or Higher
Seeking Alpha
But its actual exposure to Greece, Ireland, and Portugal, is limited and the company has completed marked-to-market its peripheral bond portfolio. Operationally, increased focus on profitability is paying off, especially at the non-life business. ...
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When governments can't print money: Swaminathan s Anklesaria Aiyar
Economic Times
That has been disproved in the case of Greece: it can still get euros but not without limit, and only subject to stringent austerity conditions. Portugal and Ireland are in similar straits. And if Spainand Italy get into similar trouble, ...
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Growth Concerns Take Center Stage
Daily Markets
But with the debt crisis steadily moving from the peripheral nations of Greece, Ireland and Portugalto now Spain, Italy and even France, it's time may finally have come. Growth is the best antidote to the debt problem that has taken hold in the ...
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Bankruptcy practices brace for European defaults
Thomson Reuters News & Insight
If you have a real default in Europe -- Greece, Italy, Portugal, Spain or Ireland -- that will impact the banks over there. That'll impact the banks here because they all have loans to each other. Reuters: So what will that mean for US businesses? ...
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US debt rating downgrade was overdue
Dearborn Press and Guide
More and more Americans can see that we are starting to look like Greece, Ireland, Portugal,Spain, Italy and a banana republic. Tea Party people are not kooks and they certainly are not terrorists. We should all be thankful that at least some people ...
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Bailouts - and the protestant ethic
Moneyweb.co.za
The southerners are Greece, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Ireland (the last geographically mislocated). Some Francophobes would group France in the romance group, but it is joined at the hip to Germany as a bailouter, and thereafter indisputably is a ...
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Google Scares the Bears Away - Now What?
Seeking Alpha
The pessimists among us might think the two countries will talk about bailing out of the European Union itself, and letting the currencies of the PIIGS (Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece, and Spain) sink or swim. That will probably not happen, ...
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Gilead Sciences, Inc. (GILD) Given New $53.00 Price Target by Deutsche Bank ...
NewsyStocks.com
The Company has sales operations, with marketing subsidiaries in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, ...
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Will SocGen smash the market snowball?
Business Spectator
It's therefore no surprise to discover that it owns the majority of a Greek bank and has a big exposure to bonds issued by Greece, Portugal, Ireland, Italy and Spain. The New York Times says that in the latest Greek bailout, Société Générale was among ...
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Global Slowdown Underway – It's More than the Japanese Supply Chain Disruptions
EconoMonitor (blog)
The PIIGS countries – Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece, and Spain – necessitate strong external demand from the core countries (Germany and France) and from outside the euro area in order to successfully deleverage amid sharp fiscal retrenchment. ...
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EconoMonitor (blog)
Foreign exchange regime most credible among alternatives - CBJ chief
Jordan Times
... the European Union is still facing difficulties caused by the near-default of Greece and the continuously rising worry about the health of the economies of other troubled European nations such as Ireland, Portugal, Spain and Italy,” he indicated. ...
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June surplus for external trade in Euro area & deficit in EU27
Gozo News
... followed by the Netherlands (+20.2 bn) and Ireland (+16.9 bn). The United Kingdom (-46.7 bn) registered the largest deficit, followed by France (-38.5 bn), Italy (-20.3 bn), Spain (-20.1 bn),Greece (-8.2 bn) and Portugal (-7.6 bn). ...
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Keizai Group – Equity Markets Hit By Broad Selloff
Market Press Release (press release)
... has expanded to engulf core members, Italy and Spain. Both countries have seen the cost of borrowing on the international bond markets soar in recent days getting tantalizingly close to the 7% that forced Greece, Ireland and Portugal to capitulate ...
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Britain's Chancellor, The "Moneymen", and The Cuts
Huffington Post
The figures for youth unemployment (16 to 24-year-olds) currently are: US 20%, UK 20%, Greece36%, Spain 44%, Ireland 29%, Portugal 28%, and Italy 29%. An economic model that consigns large numbers of fit young people to the scrapheap is not fit for ...
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A financial storm gathers: one we can weather
On Line opinion
The living-beyond-one's-means disease has claimed Greece, Ireland and Portugal, whose economies are now being bailed out by the richer members of the EU, principally Germany and France, who have long been the mainstay of European integration. ...
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Euro zone economy slows as core states stumble (Reuters) | Stock ...
By Editor - Business News
The picture was equally grim for the region's high debtors — particularly GreeceItalySpain,Portugal and Ireland — where little or no growth means make debt-cutting targets will be even harder to achieve as tax revenues shrink and welfare payments rise. ... That may sound contradictory, but the two are mutually reinforcing,” Lagarde wrote in the Financial Times newspaper ahead of the data. There was little sign of growth anywhere in the bloc from Tuesday's reports. ...
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Global markets at peril again | Set You Free News
By Renata
Ireland was a bright enough examples showing that when EU governments attempt to save banks that have gone broke then have to face a confidence crisis. Taken cumulatively, the debts of Greece,IrelandPortugalSpain and Italy amount ...
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FINANCIAL News, Money, Banks, Economic and Financial Crisis, Aug 17, 2011

BofA leads financial bonds' decline
Worcester Telegram
Bank of America Corp. is leading financial debt to its worst month since November as investors flee from borrowers facing more risk from a weakening economy and Europe's spreading debt crisis.Bonds from Charlotte, NC-based Bank of America, ...
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