Austerity May Sink Greece As Thousands Protest

ATHENS—Thousands of demonstrators marched through the streets of the Greek capital on Thursday in opposition to government overhauls, a few days before lawmakers start debating a 2012 austerity budget. READ MORE...

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Weak Manufacturing In Euro Zone, China Darkens Global Outlook

The outlook for the global economy deteriorated Thursday, with surveys showing manufacturing activity contracted at an accelerated pace in the euro zone and U.K. in November and shrank for the first time in nearly three years in China. But the U.S., where factory activity expanded, managed to buck the trend.

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World-Wide Factory Activity, by Country

As the world sinks deeper into crisis and central banks around the globe rally to restore economic order, the single statistic that veteran analysts are viewing with hawked eyes, is World-Wide Factory Activity, by Country. This is the what they are seeing. VIEW THE INTERACTIVE...

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Mortgages In Foreclosure Have Risen To An All-Time High

From LPS Applied Analytics: LPS' Mortgage Monitor Report Shows Delinquencies Down Nearly 30 Percent from Peak, Foreclosure Inventory at an All-Time High  READ MORE...

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Are There Are Too Many Incubators?

Is the start-up market overcrowded?

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The 25 Most Famous Princeton Students Of All Time

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Close Ties Facilitated Central Banks' Coordinated Moves

Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke and the world's other leading central bankers have developed close ties after fighting crises since 2007, which has made it easier for them to take swift action together when needed. And worries at the Fed and other central banks have been building since the summer that Europe's problems were boiling over into global markets.  READ MORE....

What Are Fed Swap Lines and What Do They Do?

What Are Fed Swap Lines and What Do They Do?  
"The Federal Reserve moved in coordinated action with foreign central banks this morning in order to provide a pressure-release valve for funding markets without exposing the U.S. central bank to much risk." READ MORE

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Central Banks Take Coordinated Action

Central Banks Take Coordinated Action 
WASHINGTON — The world's major central banks launched a joint action to provide cheap, emergency U.S. dollar loans to banks in Europe and elsewhere, a sign of growing alarm among policy makers about stresses in Europe and in the global financial system.

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Crisis in Europe Tightens Credit Across the Globe

Businesses Scramble as Credit Tightens in Europe

Europe’s worsening sovereign debt crisis has spread beyond its banks and the spillover now threatens businesses on the Continent and around the world.

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Breathtaking: World's 25 Most Beautiful Polluted Sunsets: #25 Paris, France

Breathtaking: World's 25 Most Beautiful Polluted Sunsets: #25 Paris, France

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Home Prices in 20 U.S. Cities Plunge As Industry Struggles

Residential real estate prices dropped more than forecast in the year ended September, showing the industry at the center of the 2008 financial crisis continues to struggle. READ MORE...

U.K Caught On Wrong Foot As Economic Revelation Take Hold

Osborne Says Debt Challenge Greater Than Expected

LONDON—U.K. Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne was Tuesday forced to admit for the second time this year that economic growth will be weaker and borrowing higher than he had hoped. READ MORE...

Spanish Retail Sales Crash

MADRID—Spain's retail sales fell at their fastest pace in four months in October, the country's national statistics agency INE said Tuesday, the latest indication of a likely late-year contraction in the euro zone's fourth-largest economy.

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3 Reasons Europe Is Failing To Act

Despite recent progress toward necessary fiscal reforms in Greece, Italy and Spain, bond investors have been abandoning European markets anddriving up yields. READ MORE...

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Ireland Enduring a Long Age of Austerity

Ireland enters its second year in the ungentle embrace of its bailout providers facing a further €3.8 billion ($5 billion) of budget cuts. It is by general acclamation the star pupil among the growing group of euro-zone members that have lost the confidence of bond investors, and the closest thing the currency area has to a success story.  READ MORE...

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The euro crisis: Could this be the plan?

Optimism for Euro May Be Shortlived READ MORE...

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Five lessons for making a difference in the world

But after nearly four decades of making small business “microloans” to women in the world’s poorest communities with my organization, FINCA International, I have developed a view as to what are the most important ingredients for success in social entrepreneurship READ MORE.

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Euro Bounces on Debt Solution Hope

Things are so bad, trader mentality suggesting that things can only get better.

European Economic Outlook and Level of Confidence Deteriates Significantly

PARIS—The global economic outlook has deteriorated significantly, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development said Monday, as it urged the European Central Bank to act decisively to prevent the euro-zone sovereign debt crisis from deepening and possibly dragging the U.S. economy to the brink of recession. READ MORE...

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Central Banks Ease Most Since 2009 to Avert Contagion

Central banks across five continents are undertaking the broadest reduction in borrowing costs since 2009 to avert a global economic slump stemming from Europe’s sovereign-debt turmoil. READ MORE...

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Euro area crisis threatens EU sovereign ratings: Moody's | Reuters

(Reuters) - Moody's Investors Service warned on Monday the rapid escalation of the euro zone sovereign and banking crisis threatens the credit standing of all European government bond ratings. READ MORE

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How To Profit From The Euro Paradox

There’s an interesting paradox emerging in the EUR/USD exchange rate. READ MORE...

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Debt Crisis Is a Symptom of Wider Failings

The crisis has only ever been partly about the sustainability of the sovereign debts of Greece, Ireland, Portugal, Italy and Spain. More crucially, it has always been a political crisis, an institutional crisis, a crisis of governance. READ MORE

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Euro Zone Moves to Address Monetary and Fiscal Imbalance

BERLIN—Euro-zone countries are weighing a new plan to accelerate the integration of their fiscal policies, people familiar with the matter said, as Europe's leaders race to convince investors they can resolve the region's debt crisis and keep the currency area from fracturing. READ MORE

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Euro in Longest Losing Stretch in 18 Months

The euro slid for a fourth week, its longest losing streak versus the dollar in 18 months, as Germany’s struggle with a bond auction signaled Europe’s debt crisis is touching the region’s most fiscally sound nations. READ MORE

U.K. to Guarantee Loans to Small, Midsize Businesses

The U.K. Treasury will guarantee bank lending to small and midsize companies in a bid to reduce the costs of such debt and stimulate lending to a part of the British economy that has struggled to get new funds, according to a person familiar with the matter. READ MORE

Junk Rating Stirs Anger in Hungary

BUDAPEST—Moody's Investors Service's downgrade of Hungary's debt to "junk" status late Thursday is raising the pressure on Budapest to make concessions in its negotiations for help from the International Monetary Fund and the European Union, and sparked an angry reaction Friday from the government. READ MORE

Market Punishes Italy

Italian Yields Jump After Poor Auction

FRANKFURT—Italian two-year and five-year government-bond yields soared to euro-era highs Friday as investors began giving up on the euro zone's ability to break the political gridlock that is blocking a more decisive response to the currency bloc's debt crisis.

Ireland, Portugal Woes Pose Risks

BRUSSELS—The euro zone's focus is on turmoil in Italy, politics in Germany and the multifaceted mess that is Greece. But Ireland and Portugal, the overshadowed bailout recipients, are still far from success—and any failure could roil the euro zone yet more. 
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