Many investors have been spooked by the ongoing
sovereign debt crisis in Europe, rising oil prices, and the apparent lack of progress by the congressional Super Committee.
Clamour over the
eurozone sovereign debt crisis showed no sign of abating on Friday as Italy prepares to pass new austerity measures to prevent a Greece - style bailout.
And while the U.S. housing market seems to be showing a pulse after four horrendous years, the European Union
sovereign debt crisis continues to steamroller along, with countries like Spain facing Depression - era unemployment rates.
The new finance chief of Spain also told CNBC that the southern European economy has been growing at a solid pace of about 3 percent in the last four years, but this doesn't mean that the problems raised during the euro
zone sovereign debt crisis are over.
On the 12th September 2012, the German Constitutional Court issued its much - expected third judgment on the constitutionality of measures that have been taken at the level of European and international law in response to the
ongoing sovereign debt crises in the Eurozone and the crisis of the currency union that resulted thereof.
Between sovereign debt crises, political disintegration and non-existent growth, it's been the worst - performing of the major investable regions since the last recession.
Sovereign debt crises tend to be messy and drawn - out — as Greece has shown — because the world lacks a global bankruptcy process to restructure debts that governments can't pay.
The central bank, based in Frankfurt, used typically understated and technical language to describe its actions, but it appears to have done what its leadership said throughout 2011 that it would not do: namely, flood the financial markets with euros in a Hail Mary attempt to make sure that the region's
sovereign debt crisis does not lead to a major financial shock.
While both the Oakmark International and International Small Cap Funds had acceptable investment performance in the fourth quarter of 2011, the full year was not good for global equities or for our two Funds, as natural disasters (first in Japan, later in Thailand) and Europe's
sovereign debt crisis took their toll.
The formation of the European Stability Mechanism1 and regional banking union, coupled with the introduction of policy tools like Outright Monetary Transactions2 and sovereign bond purchases through quantitative easing, should make Europe far more resistant to contagion than it was during the initial phases of the
regional sovereign debt crisis, in our view.
That is because one of the key arguments no longer looks as strong as it did... that it was necessary to avoid a Greek -
style sovereign debt crisis.»
Birmingham's development takes account of the causes and associated indicators of
sovereign debt crises varying between different countries and regions.
Its instability, pitiful economic governance, corruption and cronyism — all of which contributed to its
spectacular sovereign debt crisis — prove that the country is not quite ready for the big leagues.
For example, many folks believe that Europe's
sovereign debt crisis effectively ended in 2011 when the head of the European Central Bank (ECB) declared it would do «whatever it takes» to preserve the euro.
CIGI monitors issues of financial governance and securities regulation, tracks the response of central banks and examines improvements to frameworks to manage
severe sovereign debt crises.
Globally, treasury departments continue to face funding deficits with no simple resolution in sight, and the ensuing significant increases in government debt have produced
several sovereign debt crises.
Economically, while buffeted by natural disasters and fiscal policy indecisiveness at home and a European
sovereign debt crisis abroad, the U.S. economy was able to stave off economic stagnation in 2011 and is likely to continue to do so in 2012.
Further monetary tightening will be highly contingent on a brighter growth outlook in the United States and a credible solution to the
Euro sovereign debt crisis.
In a wide - ranging keynote address to investors, famed money manager Bob Rodriguez warned that the U.S. has a narrow window ahead to escape the kind
of sovereign debt crisis that Europe is now experiencing.
The central bank has remained ultra-accommodative in the years since the global financial crash and the euro
zone sovereign debt crises.
residential (obviously more domestically focused), clearly seems to offer the best medium / long term risk / reward for investors — particularly for European investors suffering through the
current sovereign debt crisis.
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sovereign debt crisis continues to grow so does Gary Stone's «Mo».
In the wake of the Great Recession starting in 2007 and the ensuing global financial crisis, as well as
European sovereign debt crisis, the FOMC maintained a record low target interest rate of 0 % to 0.25 % in order to encourage growth.
I see a lot of value inEuropeat current prices, and I believe the
ongoing sovereign debt crisis has created opportunities for those of us willing to take the risk of a little short - term volatility.
European Sovereign Debt Crisis: Since the Greece
sovereign debt crisis in April 2010, a few other European countries such as Ireland, Spain, and Portugal have also experienced signs of distress.
Following years of economic troubles in the wake of
the sovereign debt crisis of in 2011, Portugal, Spain and Italy have managed to turnaround their economies.
The country faces
a sovereign debt crisis, strict labor laws, and high unemployment, factors that have caused many entrepreneurs to move their offices overseas.
A euro that continues to rise against the U.S. dollar is now the main danger being posed to fragile euro zone economies that are still recovering after
the sovereign debt crisis of 2011, one economist has told CNBC.
However, recently, the economic recovery seen in Portugal since
the sovereign debt crisis has indeed begun affecting the way agencies such as Moody's and Standard & Poor's see the economy, indicating that in the near future more investors could be considering buying Portuguese bonds.
In the wake of
the sovereign debt crisis, Europe began implementing measures to make its financial system stronger.
If you've been keeping up with Lewis's Vanity Fair travelogues from the front lines of
the sovereign debt crisis, filed from Iceland to California, then you've read practically all the writing this book collects.
The eurozone's recovery from
the sovereign debt crisis has been about improving situations in the economic bloc's peripheral economies like Italy and Portugal, and this new batch of uncertainty in Portugal's financial sector is not sitting well with investors.