Spain
With the Brexit Vote only adding that much more uncertainty, the reality is setting in that this could spell long-term trouble for the European Union. Britain never did share its currency, but they...
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Source: thinkstockThe European Central Bank announced a negative interest rate policy on Thursday. It may not have been enough for the stimulus-addiction crowd, but this is truly an experiment. If...
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Google’s Chromebooks, the inexpensive laptops powered by Google’s Chrome operating system, are coming to New Zealand, the Philippines, Norway, Denmark, Mexico, Chile, Belgium, Spain and Italy. In...
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Source: ThinkstockIt seems almost too hard to believe, but we have seen two of the PIIGS upgraded by different credit ratings agencies this Friday. Fitch ratings has raised Greece’s sovereign...
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Source: ThinkstockBanco Santander S.A. (NYSE: SAN) may be a banking giant based in Spain, and that automatically makes it one the banks of the PIIGS nations. Something hard to utter in the same...
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Source: ThinkstockSpain, one of the most badly damaged economies in Europe got a break as S&P raised its outlook on the nation’s sovereign paper to “stable” from “negative. The debt will...
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Source: ThinkstockSpain’s Ministry of Employment and Social Security reported that in October its economy lost 87,028 jobs and the total number of unemployed in the southern European nation rose to...
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Source: ThinkstockUnemployment in Spain has been above 24% for several months, and there is nothing about the nation’s economy that will reverse that. The central government has complained that...
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Source: ThinkstockSpain’s Instituto Nacional de Estadística (INES) reported this morning that the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) shrank 0.5% sequentially in the first quarter of 2013,...
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Source: ThinkstockUnemployment in the euro area grew again in March, supporting the obvious conclusion that a lack of stimulus, terribly high unemployment and the crippling of the financial and...
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Source: ThinkstockThe U.S. unemployment rate continues to tick down, hitting a more than four-year low of just 7.6% in March. In much of Europe, however, the situation is very different. If the...
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Source: ThinkstockEurostat reported that unemployment in 17-nation euro area continues to hover at 12%. It is worth remembering that, at the depths of the recession, U.S. joblessness barely topped...
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Spain’s number of unemployed reached a the staggering level of 4,907,817 last month, according to the government’s labor arm. That almost certainly means that the 25% unemployment figure the...
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Eurostat reports that unemployment in the euro area has risen again:The euro area (EA17) seasonally-adjusted unemployment rate was 11.7% in October 2012, up from 11.6% in September. The EU271...
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Source: ThinkstockIn a snap election announced just a few weeks ago, voters in the Spanish region of Catalonia have given a clear majority of votes to parties seeking referendum on independence from...
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