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Posts related to ‘EWG’

Egan-Jones Gives Sovereign Rating Downgrade For Germany

You may not want to care any longer, but the implication is that you have to keep caring.  You will probably have to keep caring about this for years as ...
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Bracing For The Euro Without Greece… Other PIIGS Too (EWG, EWQ, FXE, EWI, IRE, IRL, NBG, GREK, EWP, STD, BBVA, VGK, FEZ)

So much for any great help from the ECB, France, Germany, and any other entity being able to help the Euro stay together.  Rumors have been out that nations have ...
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S&P European Downgrades Driving Home (EWQ, EWG, EWO, ALU)

The rumors that Standard & Poor's is set to downgrade certain European nations after the close is putting pressure on financial markets this Friday.  Is it fitting that it is ...
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ETF, ETN, and Funds For Germany’s Debt Concerns (BUNL, BUND, EWG, GF, BUNT)

The new question of the week is whether or not Germany will get pulled down into the soup with the rest of Europe on the growing debt woes.  A horrible bond ...
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European ADRs Leading The Charge Higher (ALU, MT, BHP, STD, IRE, CS, UBS, DB, FTE, PHG, ERIC, NOK, NBG, SI, TI, EWI, EWQ, EWG)

Greece and the rest of the PIIGS were hurting us for so long that it seems hard to believe that the Europeans are setting a 50% haircut for the Greek sovereign ...
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Germany Downgrade Rumor, False, Still Spooks (EWG, SI, DB, SAP, GF)

Germany is supposed to be immune to losing its "AAA" rating.  When we covered "The Nations Which Could Lose Their AAA Ratings" there was no mention of Germany.  That was ...
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Euro-ETFs In Focus, From Greece to Italy and Beyond (EWI, EWG, VGK, EZU)

Italy's sovereign debt trails only the US and Japan in size. For a relatively small nation with debt totaling 120% of GDP, $2.2 trillion in debt is a big deal. ...
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Select Fund Sell-Offs in Europe (EWP, EWI, EWG, EWU, EWQ, IEV, IRL, SNF, GF, RNE, CEE, EWL)

It is not hard to find ADRs which have sold off by about 50%, and some are worse than that out of Europe.  These shares are getting the double-whammy now ...
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