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After withdrawing meatballs from stores across Europe, home furnishings company Ikea said yesterday its own tests confirmed "a few indications of horse meat" and that it would also remove wiener sausages made by the same supplier.

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Here's one way to boost an ailing economy: Bulgaria is offering citizenship to foreigners ready to invest at least half a million euros ($650,000).

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Investors breathed a sigh of relief yesterday, sending the euro briefly above $1.29 for the first time in four months after Germany’s highest court rejected calls to block Europe’s permanent rescue fund.

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Spain's prime minister is urging the European Central Bank to go ahead with a bond-buying program aimed at lowering the borrowing costs of debt-ridden governments like his own, saying in comments published Sunday that eurozone state financing rates need to be similar for the currency union to function.

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Spain's sky-high borrowing rates have edged down somewhat and the finance minister has again denied that the country will need a full-fledged bailout of its public finances.

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World leaders' relief at Greek voters rejection of a government that could have forced the country's exit from the European currency union evaporated yesterday with the continued severity of Europe's economic problems.

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Local stocks rallied sharply yesterday as investors welcomed news that euro zone ministers agreed to lend Spain’s banks up to 100 billion euros ($125 billion).

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Europe is to offer Spain a bailout package of up to €100 billion ($125 billion) to help rescue the country's banks and keep the 17-country eurozone from breaking apart.

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Spain could decide within days or weeks to ask for a bailout for its troubled banking sector, a step that would make it the fourth country in the 17-member eurozone to seek help since the EU debt crisis broke out.

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Tens of thousands of Spaniards angered by grim economic prospects and the political handling of the international financial crisis turned out for street demonstrations in the country's cities yesterday, marking the one-year anniversary of a movement that inspired similar pressure groups in other countries.

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Here's one way to boost an ailing economy: Bulgaria is offering citizenship to foreigners ready to invest at least half a million euros ($650,000).

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Investors breathed a sigh of relief yesterday, sending the euro briefly above $1.29 for the first time in four months after Germany’s highest court rejected calls to block Europe’s permanent rescue fund.

[DatePublished] => 2012-09-13 04:20:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 844819 [Title] => Spanish PM pushes ECB bond buying program [Summary] =>

Spain's prime minister is urging the European Central Bank to go ahead with a bond-buying program aimed at lowering the borrowing costs of debt-ridden governments like his own, saying in comments published Sunday that eurozone state financing rates need to be similar for the currency union to function.

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Spain's sky-high borrowing rates have edged down somewhat and the finance minister has again denied that the country will need a full-fledged bailout of its public finances.

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World leaders' relief at Greek voters rejection of a government that could have forced the country's exit from the European currency union evaporated yesterday with the continued severity of Europe's economic problems.

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Local stocks rallied sharply yesterday as investors welcomed news that euro zone ministers agreed to lend Spain’s banks up to 100 billion euros ($125 billion).

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Europe is to offer Spain a bailout package of up to €100 billion ($125 billion) to help rescue the country's banks and keep the 17-country eurozone from breaking apart.

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Spain could decide within days or weeks to ask for a bailout for its troubled banking sector, a step that would make it the fourth country in the 17-member eurozone to seek help since the EU debt crisis broke out.

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Tens of thousands of Spaniards angered by grim economic prospects and the political handling of the international financial crisis turned out for street demonstrations in the country's cities yesterday, marking the one-year anniversary of a movement that inspired similar pressure groups in other countries.

[DatePublished] => 2012-05-13 04:30:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => [SectionUrl] => [URL] => ) ) )
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