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By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne |
August 6, 2012
The ECB’s Governing Council has decided to raise the upper limit for the amount of Greek short-term loans the Bank of Greece can accept in exchange for emergency loans.
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By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne |
July 16, 2012
Greece’s fiscal troubles seemed to grow deeper with the revelation that companies owned by Piraeus Bank’s chairman and his children took out secret loans from a rival bank to pay for Piraeus shares.
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By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne |
May 30, 2012
The Spanish bank crisis escalated on Wednesday, frightening investors away from markets that fell to their lowest level in nine years.
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By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne |
December 22, 2011
Greece’s creditors are pushing back against an IMF drive to get them to accept larger losses on the country’s sovereign debt, with one Madrid-based hedge fund pulling out of the debt swap talks over the matter.
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By Marlene Y. Satter, AdvisorOne |
December 12, 2011
New products introduced over the last week include a new Greece-centric ETF from Global X, a purchase fee cut on a Vanguard fund, and two new ETNs from Deutsche Bank and Invesco.
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By Gil Weinreich, AdvisorOne |
July 21, 2011
European bank stocks skyrocketed Thursday on news that an EU emergency summit meeting has crafted a plan to aid Greece without any new taxes on banks.