Tag: Eurozone crisis
Eurozone crisisCameron and Rajoy scheduled to meet this month, says Madrid media
The prime ministers of Spain and Britain will meet in Madrid during the second week of April, according to a weekend report in ABC. The article said the meeting between Mariano Rajoy and David Cameron would centre primarily on the Euro-zone crisis.
Rousseff warns austerity measures alone are not sufficient to address economic crises
Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff criticized in Paris policies that are limited to austerity when facing crises because they are not effective in economic terms and only generate ‘more recession and unemployment”.
European Central Bank says it has ‘much to learn’ from Latam robust financial systems
The Vice-president of the European central bank Vitor Constancio said the EU has much to learn from Latin America which has coped with successive economic and financial crises and has managed to create robust financial structures which have made the region’s system even more resistant to outside shocks.
Investors wanting safe parking for their money buy 0% German bonds
Germany got bids for 6.24 billion Euros of two-year notes at an auction Wednesday exceeding its 5 billion-Euro maximum sales target, according to a statement from the Bundesbank.
Global confidence index for next twelve months at its gloomiest in five quarters
Confidence in the state of the world economy over the next 12 months fell to the lowest level in five quarters, according to the Global Confidence Index prepared by the World Economic Forum.
Mujica warns Uruguay is going through an exceptional period, but it is also finite
President Jose Mujica said Uruguay was going through an ‘exceptional’ period vis-à-vis the world crisis but also warned that exceptionality has limits and is not forever.
EC criticizes US risk rating agencies handling of the Euro-zone crisis
A top official from the European Commission was particularly critical of the credit risk rating agencies in their handling of the Euro crisis and Germany brushed aside the latest rating agencies announcement saying the country is in a very sound economic and financial situation.
UK remains deep in recession: even the services sector contracted
Britain's economy shrank far more than expected in the second quarter, battered by everything from an extra public holiday to government spending cuts and the neighbouring Euro zone crisis.
EU parliament president warns economic crisis could spark “social explosion”
European Parliament president Martin Schulz warned this weekend that Spain's economic crisis could spark a “social explosion” across the continent.
World Bank warns that Euro debt crisis will have an impact on most regions
World Bank President Jim Yong Kim on Wednesday warned that most regions of the world will be hurt by the debt crisis enveloping the Euro zone and said it was vital to protect the strong economic gains of the past decade in the developing world.
