Greece euro exit could strike Spain, Italy – Zoellick

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Wed May 16, 2012 3:37pm EDT

WASHINGTON May 16 (Reuters) – A preference by Greece to leave
Europe’s common banking section would lift large questions about
the impact on Spain, Italy and other euro section countries with
big debt loads that are undergoing constructional reforms, a head
of a World Bank pronounced on Wednesday.

The euro section predicament poses a biggest hazard to a global
economy, World Bank President Robert Zoellick pronounced in a
question-and-answer event during a Washington Economic Club.

“The core doubt will be not Greece, though Spain and Italy,”
he said. If Greece motionless to leave a euro zone, a ripple
effects could be really damaging, suggestive of a Lehman
Brothers fall in 2008.

“Where a risk comes in is when events come and they
start to impact certainty and

Article source: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/16/eurozone-greece-zoellick-idUSL1E8GGKJT20120516

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GLOBAL MARKETS-Shares palliate as Greek doubt saps risk appetite

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Tue May 15, 2012 8:30pm EDT

* MSCI Asia ex-Japan falls 0.5 pct, Nikkei opens down 0.4
pct

* Euro nearby 4-month low, Aussie nearby five-month low

By Chikako Mogi

TOKYO, May 16 (Reuters) – Asian shares fell on Wednesday
after Greece unsuccessful to form a government, environment a theatre for
a Jun choosing that could lift a risk of Athens abandoning
the euro and deepening a euro zone’s debt crisis.

Greek domestic leaders accommodate on Wednesday to form a
caretaker supervision that will lead a nation into a second
election in only over a month.

MSCI’s broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outward Japan
fell 0.5 percent after retreating as most as 1.1
percent to a four-month low on Tuesday. The index has been
falling for a past 3 sessions, and has depressed some-more than

Article source: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/16/markets-global-idUSL4E8GF4OS20120516

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Euro-Zone Economy Steadies as Big Split Emerges

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LONDON—The euro-zone economy steadied in a 3 months to Mar as a surprisingly clever miscarry in Germany was offset by contractions in Italy and Spain.

According to a clarification supposed by many economists, dual true buliding of descending sum domestic product consecrate a recession. By avoiding a contraction in a initial quarter, a euro section also avoided entering recession.

However, a widening opening between a euro zone’s largest and strongest member and southern European economies in a hold of purgation could poise domestic problems.

The European Union’s central statistics group Eurostat on Tuesday pronounced euro-zone GDP was unvaried from a fourth quarter, and from a initial entertain of 2011. That

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WORLD FOREX: Euro Steadies On Italy Auction, Pound Extends Gains

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— Euro recovers early waste after Italy’s bond auction

— Sterling powers aloft to new multi-month highs

— Nordic currencies sharp-witted after information

LONDON (Dow Jones)–The euro recovered early waste in European trade Friday after a closely expected Italian supervision bond auction upheld but a hitch, while argent traded nearby a top turn in some-more than 7 months opposite a dollar as investors awaited a recover of U.S. mercantile expansion data.

The singular banking started a event in sickly conform and extended a waste it had done late Thursday after ratings organisation Standard and Poor’s lowered Spain’s supervision debt rating …

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EURO GOVT-Weak information sparks Bund rally; concentration on Italy auction

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Thu Apr 26, 2012 12:54pm EDT

* Safe-haven Bunds convene to within steer of record high

* Growth fears bluster to criticise marginal austerity
drive

* Italian 6.25 bln euro auction approaching to pull yields
higher

By William James and Marius Zaharia

LONDON, Apr 26 (Reuters) – German supervision bond prices
rose on Thursday after weaker-than-expected business sentiment
data reignited worries that mercantile debility could lower the
euro section debt crisis.

With a region’s weakest sovereigns already struggling to
generate a expansion indispensable to shun their debt burdens, the
data display a worsening mood increased direct for a perceived
safety of German debt and strong financier courtesy on
Friday’s auction of holds from vital debtor Italy.

“Without expansion there’s no approach out for a periphery. Debt
remains high, deficits will sojourn high, no one will wish toArticle source: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/26/markets-bonds-euro-idUSL6E8FQEQD20120426

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EURO GOVT-Weak information sparks Bund rally; concentration on Italy auction

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Thu Apr 26, 2012 12:54pm EDT

* Safe-haven Bunds convene to within steer of record high

* Growth fears bluster to criticise marginal austerity
drive

* Italian 6.25 bln euro auction approaching to pull yields
higher

By William James and Marius Zaharia

LONDON, Apr 26 (Reuters) – German supervision bond prices
rose on Thursday after weaker-than-expected business sentiment
data reignited worries that mercantile debility could lower the
euro section debt crisis.

With a region’s weakest sovereigns already struggling to
generate a expansion indispensable to shun their debt burdens, the
data display a worsening mood increased direct for a perceived
safety of German debt and strong financier courtesy on
Friday’s auction of holds from vital debtor Italy.

“Without expansion there’s no approach out for a periphery. Debt
remains high, deficits will sojourn high, no one will wish toArticle source: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/26/markets-bonds-euro-idUSL6E8FQEQD20120426

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Euro, shares benefit on renewed expansion focus

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Thu Apr 26, 2012 5:38am EDT

LONDON (Reuters) – World shares rose and a singular banking strike a new three-week high opposite a weaker dollar on Thursday, fuelled by a U.S. Federal Reserve’s joining to support expansion and signs of some vigour in Europe to pierce divided from oppressive austerity.

Strong corporate increase rising on both sides of a Atlantic and a drop in oil prices upheld sentiment, though markets were discreet before a pivotal exam of direct for euro section debt on Friday when Italy sells new bonds.

“There are concerns – mercantile concerns, domestic concerns – though for now a altogether movement in association gain and in a tellurian economy should be an offsetting factor,” said

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Euro-Zone Crisis Funds Face Test With Investors

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WASHINGTON—After months of wrangling, supervision leaders have fabricated a span of fight chests to ensure opposite deepening euro-zone turmoil.

Now their devise faces a large test: Will markets buy it?

The world’s financial ministers, who resolved meetings in Washington on Sunday, wish their new supports will remonstrate investors that governments have a financial firepower to fight a crisis. The fight chests could be used to yield puncture loans to governments in risk of debt defaults since of mountainous borrowing costs. The ministers wish a total pool is now large adequate to forestall borrowing costs from rising to that point.

But officials face outrageous constraints in how a supports could be deployed and determined financier doubts about either the

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EURO DEBT SUPPLY-Italy subsequent in line to exam debt marketplace nerve

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Fri Apr 20, 2012 9:44am EDT

* Italy issues medium- and long-term holds subsequent Friday

* Sale closely watched for signs of contamination from Spain

* Germany faces wily charge of offered 32-year bonds

By Marius Zaharia

LONDON, Apr 20 (Reuters) – Italy’s borrowing costs are
under vigour to arise serve during a bond sale subsequent Friday
because investors are nursing renewed doubts about whether
highly-indebted euro section governments can get their finances
under control.

Five days is a prolonged time in a euro section predicament and the
market mood might pitch sharply, though a auction has been singled
out as a executive “risk event”, watched not usually by bond
investors though by many people concerned in tellurian financial
markets.

After Italy and Spain sole debt with palliate progressing this year,
riding a call of inexpensive European Central

Article source: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/20/markets-euro-supply-outlook-idUSL6E8FK5OO20120420

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EURO GOVT-Spain underneath pressure, Italy faces marketplace test

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Fri Apr 20, 2012 12:09pm EDT

* Spanish debt pressured, hangover from auction

* Market to exam ardour for Italian debt subsequent week

* German 2044 bond sale could be a struggle-analyst

By Emelia Sithole-Matarise and Ana Nicolaci da Costa

LONDON, Apr 20 (Reuters) – Spanish and Italian government
bonds came underneath vigour on Friday as Spain’s auction this week
failed to palliate financier concerns over Madrid’s mercantile health,
while Italy goes to a marketplace subsequent week for a initial time
since it revised the budget.

Spanish 10-year yields surfaced 6 percent on Friday before
retreating after upbeat German mercantile information though a mangle higher
was seen expected as investors disturbed about Madrid’s ability to
deal with the mercantile problems.

Pressure on Spanish debt grew after a debt auction on
Thursday fell brief of marketplace expectations. A

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