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St. Patrick’s Day Finances, Facts and Figures … Likely More Than $5 Billion Spent

Posted: March 17, 2013 at 8:55 am

If there is an event, there is a cost or an economic impact associated with it. St. Patrick's Day comes every year on March 17, and 24/7 Wall St. wanted ...
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Eaton Goes Big (ETN, CBE, ITW, JCI, PH)

Posted: May 21, 2012 at 9:59 am

Eaton Corp. (NYSE: ETN), a diversified industrial company that is best known for its power management equipment, has announced that it is acquiring Ireland-based Cooper Industries (NYSE: CBE) for a ...
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Ireland Continues to Fall Apart

Posted: January 16, 2012 at 6:21 am

Ireland’s economic problems have been largely forgotten as concerns about a financial collapse of Italy and Spain have taken the spotlight. That likely will change now. Research firm Davy has significantly cut ...
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Ireland Has Reason To Hold Out As EU Pressures A Restructuring

Posted: November 16, 2010 at 5:13 am

Ireland is under what has become relentless pressure to take a bailout from the EU's trillion-dollar facility, which used to help Greece in its time of need. There have been ...
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Moody’s May Downgrade Ireland, Again

Posted: October 5, 2010 at 5:29 am

Moody's Investors Service placed Ireland's Aa2 local currency and foreign currency government bond ratings on review for a possible downgrade. That means that global capital markets investors will force the ...
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Faltering Banks Strain Ireland’s Budget To Breaking Point, Bailout Next

Posted: September 30, 2010 at 5:39 am

Ireland announced that its budget deficit will rise to 32% of GDP, a number which is nearly unimaginable. It would be the equivalent to a $5 trillion annual deficit in ...
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Media Digest (8/25/2010) Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: August 25, 2010 at 4:04 am

Reuters:   BHP Billiton (NYSE: BHP) reported strong profits and now faces questions from its investors about Potash (NYSE: POT) Reuters:   Global economic problems will shadow a big Fed meeting. Reuters:   ...
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Moody’s Cut on Ireland: Opportunity Rather Than Caution (AIB, IRE, IRL)

Posted: July 19, 2010 at 2:58 pm

After Moody's downgraded Ireland, there may be more of a buffer ahead in place than additional negative catalysts working against its two key banks of Allied Irish Banks plc (NYSE: ...
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Media Digest 7/18/2010 Reuters, WSJ, NYTimes, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: July 19, 2010 at 3:58 am

Reuters: Moody's downgraded Ireland's debt. Reuters:   Engineers detected seepage  around the capped BP well. Reuters:   The National Association for Business Economics says companies will begin to hire again but the ...
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