Keith Fitz-Gerald: Despite all of its best hopes, Wall Street will never escape what’s happening in the Eurozone. The 1 trillion euro ($1.3 trillion) slush fund created to keep the chaos at bay is not big enough. And it never was. Read more…
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Michael Snyder: The economic crisis in Europe (NYSEARCA:VGK) continues to get worse and eventually it is going to unravel into a complete economic nightmare. All over Europe Read more…
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Michael Snyder: For a long time, most analysts have believed that if someone was going to leave the euro (NYSEArca:FXE), it would be a weak nation such as Greece or Portugal. But the truth is that Read more…
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Sy Harding: There was much anticipation in advance of Friday’s Labor Department employment report for February. The report has a reputation for often coming in with a big surprise in one Read more…
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Sy Harding: In Europe (NYSEArca:VGK), the euro-zone debt crisis has pretty much faded from headlines. The arrangements that will bail out Greece (NYSEArca:GREK)- at least for now – have been pretty much finalized. Read more…
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Monty Agarwal: A 10-page document prepared by analysts in the so-called “troika” of international lenders (the European Central Bank, European Commission and International Monetary Fund) — marked “strictly confidential” and dated Feb. 15 — was meant for only the top brass of the troika. Read more…
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Michael Snyder: The unemployment rate in the eurozone is now 10.7 percent. That is the highest the unemployment rate has been since the introduction of the euro. The unemployment rate in the Read more…
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Martin Hutchinson: Last week’s news that Eurozone GDP declined by 0.3% in the fourth quarter of 2011 set all the usual pundits moaning about the inevitable decline of Europe (NYSEArca:VGK). Read more…
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Michael Snyder: What in the world is going on in Europe (NYSEArca:VGK)? Each day things just seem to get stranger and stranger. We are being told that a “deal” for a second Greek bailout has been reached and that Greece will not default in March. But behind the scenes it seems clear that many politicians Read more…
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Jeff Harding: We need to follow Greece because their default and withdrawal from the eurozone (NYSEArca:VGK) would set off major consequences to the European Monetary Union, and thus the EU, Read more…
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Martin Hutchinson: The Eurozone is about to collapse. The United States is struggling out of the deepest recession since World War II. And the IMF forecasts global growth will drop from 5% in 2011 to 2.6% in 2012. Read more…
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Dian L. Chu: The Euro Zone debt crisis has certainly kept the credit rating agencies busy in the news headline. On Friday, 16 Dec. Moody’s downgraded Belgium’s credit rating by two notches to Aa3 with Read more…
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Kerri Shannon: If you’re concerned about where gold prices (NYSEARCA:GLD) are headed after yesterday’s (Wednesday’s) bear-market buzz, don’t be. This is just a brief pit-stop in what continues to be an epic bull-run for the yellow metal. Read more…
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Brian Sylvester: David Morgan, publisher of Silver Investor, likes the balanced risk and growth that midtier companies provide, but even he can’t resist the pull of having a speculative pick pay off. In this exclusive interview with The Gold Report, Morgan talks about the tenets he lives by when investing in Read more…
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John Chapman: Recent data from Europe (NYSEARCA:VGK) suggest the economy there is already in recession with, regrettably, the political class seemingly in denial over its potential severity. Depending on the fate of bank recapitalizations there, a Eurozone recession may or may not pull the U.S. Read more…
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