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The Last Countries Left With Triple-A Rating

Posted: February 16, 2011 at 4:38 am

Ratings agencies missed the meltdown in the housing market and the rising debt tide that swept over European capitals.  We wanted to see if they are awarding Triple-A ratings to ...
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Media Digest 7/2/2010

Posted: July 2, 2010 at 4:02 am

Reuters:   Maria Cantwell (D-WA) will support the Senate financial reform bill, giving Democrats a boost. Reuters:   Automakers had a setback in June, an indication that the industry is facing slow ...
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Signs Of The Apocalype: Thailand Stock Exchange On Fire As Euro Collapses

Posted: May 19, 2010 at 6:17 am

Protesters in Thailand, retreating from the army, have set the stock exchange on fire. The euro is about to break below $1.21 after Angela Merkel of Germany set new short ...
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Very Little For Germany In A United Europe

Posted: May 12, 2010 at 5:59 am

The head of the IMF, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, has encouraged European nations to join forces more closely by aligning their economies more tightly to combat future disasters like the Greek debt crisis. ...
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Eurozone Nations Can Bail out Their Banks Or Greece

Posted: April 29, 2010 at 5:34 am

There are several reports that Evolution Equities and Barclays have estimated the cost of a Greek default to Europe's banks over three years . One of the reports, from the ...
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ECB’s Trichet: What? Me, Worry

Posted: April 8, 2010 at 7:19 pm

Jean-Claude Trichet, president of the European Central Bank, an agency with almost no power, said that Greece will not default on its debts. It was as if there is some magic ...
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The Smart Money Starts To Turn Against Greece

Posted: April 1, 2010 at 9:04 am

The euro zone's IMF bailout of Greece has lost its power to attract the world's capital markets to the debt of the southern European country. The markets, as represented by ...
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Greece Finally Gets Unanimity For Financial Backing, Maybe

Posted: March 25, 2010 at 12:48 pm

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy have finally decided, after bilateral talks, to allow the IMF to join any bailout of Greece. Dow Jones Newswires reports "The ...
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