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MarketWatch
| 1 year ago
January through March, posting its best first quarter since 1998. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 8% in the first quarter; among its components, Bank of America Corp. surged 72%, J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. gained 38% and Microsoft Corp. rose...
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International Business Times
| 1 year ago
Articles The Dow and the S&P 500 slipped, putting them on track for three straight days of declines, but the Nasdaq advanced modestly, buoyed by shares of retailer Bed Bath & Beyond , which jumped 10 percent to a lifetime high after the company's...
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Star Tribune
| 1 year ago
The Standard & Poor's 500 ended a shortened trading week down 0.7 percent. That's the biggest fall for the index this year and the worst since the week ended Dec...Investors sold stocks on fears that Spain may have trouble paying back its debt. On...
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AP Online
| 1 year ago
Growing fears about Europe's debt crisis pushed the dollar to a three-week high against the euro Thursday. The euro also fell against the Swiss franc, dropping below a ceiling set by the Swiss National Bank last year.
The yield on Spain'...
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Guardian Unlimited
| 1 year ago
A man injured after a clash with police in Madrid during last month's general strike. Photograph: Jose Luis Cuesta/Demotix/Corbis Worries about Spain 's perilous economic outlook and the threat it poses to its fragile eurozone neighbours intensified...
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MarketWatch
| 1 year ago
Canadian stocks retreated for a third session Thursday as a fresh round of concerns over Europe's debt crisis continued to dampen investors' sentiment, outweighing positive reports on the job markets in the U.S. and Canada. The S&P/TSX Composite...
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The Economic Times
| 1 year ago
US stocks traded flat to slightly higher Thursday after two straight days of declines as jobless claims data showing improvement in the US labor market helped offset revived concerns about the euro zone's fiscal stability. Government data showed the...
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The Globe & Mail
| 1 year ago
The Toronto stock market was lower for a third day ahead of the holiday weekend despite data showing solid job creation in Canada last month. The S&P/TSX composite index was down 24.29 points to 12,154.37 as a disappointing Spanish government bond...
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Ledger-Enquirer
| 1 year ago
The yield on Spain's benchmark 10-year bond jumped to 5.74 percent Thursday, its highest point since November...Rising yields are a sign that investors are less confident in the country's finances. The higher a country's yield, the more expensive it...
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The Motley Fool
| 1 year ago
After two straight days of decline, investors might be wondering whether the market can maintain its momentum. After all, the Dow is already up more than 7% this year, matching its average annual return over the past 17 years!...Let's break down the...
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Turks and Caicos Free Press
| 1 year ago
It may be cold comfort for countries on the euro zone's southern periphery mired in recession, but they are making clear strides by some measures towards putting their economies on a sounder long-term footing. After years of excessive debt-fuelled...
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MarketWatch
| 1 year ago
Fears that Spain could reignite the euro-zone sovereign debt crisis were underlined Thursday, with yields on Spanish government bonds rising to levels not seen since the European Central Bank injected cheap liquidity into the region's financial...
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International Business Times
| 1 year ago
Articles Ten-year yields on Spanish bonds jumped to 5.81 percent, the highest level since Dec...Spain sold 2.6 billion ($3.4 billion) of bonds, at the low end of its 2.5 billion to 3.5 billion target, and at yields that were well above previous...
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International Business Times
| 1 year ago
Articles Spain sold 2.6 billion euros (2.15 billion pounds) of debt, at the low end of its target range, with a bond maturing in 2020 yielding an average 5.338 percent, higher than a forecast 5.2 percent and up from 5.156 percent when it was last...
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Denver Post
| 1 year ago
The Dow Jones industrial average slipped 25 points to 13,048 shortly after the opening bell Thursday...Spain has become the latest point of concern in Europe's debt crisis. Investors are concerned over the ability of the country's government to push...
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MarketWatch
| 1 year ago
Treasury prices rose on Thursday, pushing yields down to their lowest levels in a week, as growing worries about Spain's debt problems and Europe's economic outlook revived interest in the relative safety of U.S. government debt. Yields on 10-year...
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MarketWatch
| 1 year ago
The futures trimmed the losses in the wake of weekly U.S. jobless-claims data. And many U.S. retailers reported their March sales on Thursday. Europe Markets: Europe stocks turn lower; bond yields surge European stock markets erased gains on Thursday,...
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Russia Today
| 1 year ago
If eurozone countries do not make necessary steps to restructure their debts, the current period of calm, may quite be calm before the storm. Optimism in Europe is fading as manufacturing in Germany and in the UK showed weak results, failing to calm...
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The Globe & Mail
| 1 year ago
Global stocks were set for another turbulent day on Thursday, with rising Spanish bond yields weighing on European indexes as investors fret over what could be the next chapter in the sovereign-debt crisis. U.S. stock futures were down with about two...
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The Globe & Mail
| 1 year ago
These are stories Report on Business is following Thursday, April 5, 2012. Get the top business stories through the day on BlackBerry or iPhone by bookmarking our mobile-friendly webpage. Suicide note a rallying cry Dimitris Christoulas has become a...
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The Globe & Mail
| 1 year ago
Video Video Video Measures presented to parliament this week by budget minister Cristobal Montoro suggest as much. His 27-billion of spending cuts and tax increases made up the harshest budget since Franco's death. Yet instead of cutting the state...
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International Business Times
| 1 year ago
Text Size The sentiment deteriorated further in the market today after France ran another downbeat auction following the one seen in Spain yesterday, where the French government sold approximately 8.44 billion euro of bonds with different maturities...
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Seattle Post Intelligencer
| 1 year ago
France saw its borrowing costs rise slightly in a set of long-term bond auctions on Thursday just as markets are getting jittery again over Europe's debt crisis. The yield, or interest rate, the country had to pay to borrow 8.44 billion ($11 billion)...
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Asian Wall Street Journal
| 1 year ago
Thursday, as mounting concerns over the economy sparked a sharp slide in the country's bonds and led to an evaporation of the effect of the European Central Bank's generous cash injection. The rout in Spanish bonds weighed heavily on financial...
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International Business Times
| 1 year ago
Articles Borrowing costs on Italian and Spanish bonds continued to force more pressures on both nation, as yields on 10-year Spanish bonds reached the highest since December, adding so far 24 basis points to currently hover around 5.71%. Yields on...
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Miami Herald
| 1 year ago
European stock markets failed to hold on to their early gains Thursday as investors fretted about Spain's debt problems, and reduced their potential exposure to upcoming U.S. jobs figures in the run-up to the long Easter weekend. Join the Discussion...
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Taiwan News
| 1 year ago
Taipei, April 5 (CNA) The U.S. dollar rose against the Taiwan dollar Thursday, gaining NT$0.039 to close at NT$29.519 as the local bourse suffered additional losses amid lingering concerns over a possible capital gains tax on stock investments,...
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International Business Times
| 1 year ago
Fears and concerns returned to the market which been reflected by higher yields on some European nations, as the Spanish and Italian benchmark bonds (10 years) rallied amid high uncertainty and unclear outlook for both countries. Must Read...
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AKI
| 1 year ago
European Central Bank President Mario Draghi quashed talk of an early exit from emergency stimulus measures as Spain struggled to borrow in financial markets, a reminder of the risk that the region's debt crisis could flare again. Speaking just hours...
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The Economic Times
| 1 year ago
The euro hovered near a three-week trough against the dollar on Thursday and could be in line for further losses prompted by a deteriorating economic outlook in the euro zone and a weak Spanish bond auction. After holding interest rates at a record...
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The Guardian
| 1 year ago
With the holidays almost upon us, there's not too much on the agenda today. But the economic data should give fresh insights into the European economy (and who knows, governor Mervyn King might pull an Easter bunny out of the hat at noon (but he...
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Denver Post
| 1 year ago
European debt flared again as a worry for Wall Street and drove stocks Wednesday to their worst loss in a month. The Dow Jones industrial average lost 125 points, and the price of gold plunged to its lowest level since January. It was only the second...
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The Economic Times
| 1 year ago
A gradual strengthening in demand from emerging markets should provide some support given the ongoing easing of monetary policies in most of these markets. And the likelihood that households will draw on their savings should at the same time buttress...
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The Age
| 1 year ago
Story continues below In another sign that recession is gripping the region, a key survey showed that manufacturing activity dropped to a three-month low in March, with the "malaise" spreading to top economies Germany and France. "It looks odds-on...
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Belleville News-Democrat
| 1 year ago
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International Business Times
| 1 year ago
Articles It is clear that growth is not solid enough in the euro area to prevent a continued rise in unemployment rates, said a note from Societe Generale Cross Asset Research. With Spain recording the highest jobless rate at 23.6 percent in the...
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United Press International
| 1 year ago
Once again, the countries of the eurozone have met, agreed to new funding and declared that with their new trillion-dollar firewall the euro crisis is resolved...At their summit meeting Friday in Copenhagen, the leaders of the eurozone countries...
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The Globe & Mail
| 1 year ago
The euro zone's manufacturing sector shrank for an eighth month and at a faster pace in March, adding to signs the bloc is in recession as the downturn spread to core members France and Germany, a survey showed on Monday. Markit's Eurozone...
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International Business Times
| 1 year ago
Text Size Euro Zone manufacturing slumps for eighth consecutive month Manufacturing in the Euro Zone contracted for the eighth consecutive month in March, signalling the potential for the world's second-largest economic bloc to slip back into...
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The Economic Times
| 1 year ago
An eighth straight month of contraction in the euro zone's manufacturing sector eclipsed brighter news from Asia on Monday, dimming chances of a strong rebound in the global economy. The downturn in Europe's periphery members has spread to the core...
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Seattle Post Intelligencer
| 1 year ago
Unemployment in the 17 countries that use the euro hit its highest level since the currency was introduced back in 1999, official figures showed Monday, adding to fears that the region is back in recession. Eurostat, the European Union 's statistics...
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BBC
| 1 year ago
Unemployment across countries that use the euro edged higher in February to 10.8%. That's up from 10.7% in January and the highest level since the introduction of the single currency in 1999...Meanwhile, a separate report confirmed that manufacturing...
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Merced Sun-Star
| 1 year ago
The manufacturing downturn in the 17 countries that use the euro got worse in March, a closely watched survey revealed Monday, reinforcing fears that the single currency bloc is in recession...Markit said the eurozone's two powerhouse economies,...
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Taiwan News
| 1 year ago
Bloomberg , Taiwan News, Newspaper 2012-04-02 11:43 AM The euro area remains the biggest threat to global growth as imbalances still need to be addressed, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Chief Economist Pier Carlo Padoan said.
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Scoop
| 1 year ago
Riding high on a strong quarter, investors will be focusing this week on a flurry of data to see whether the strength of the global economy, in particular the US, warrants further gains on Wall Street and European bourses. Reports on American...
