Topic: Spain

Right storming towards win in crisis-hit Spain

Spain's right was storming towards a landslide win in a vote to be held Sunday, carried by popular anger over an economic slump and a debt crisis that has toppled a string of eurozone leaders.Street protests and a debt market tempest chased ...

Emergency post-election measures won't save Spain

MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's new government may rush through emergency measures immediately after Sunday's parliamentary election, but unless the euro zone finds a durable systemic solution to its debt crisis, Madrid will still be forced to seek a financial rescue.The center-right People's ...

Analysis: Emergency post-election measures won't save Spain

MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's new government may rush through emergency measures immediately after Sunday's parliamentary election, but unless the euro zone finds a durable systemic solution to its debt crisis, Madrid will still be forced to seek a financial rescue.The center-right People's ...
Spain's Socialist government admitted for the first time Wednesday it will miss its 2011 economic growth target, just four days before an expected election drubbing.Spain's sovereign borrowing costs inched up meanwhile, raising the stakes for the next government amid tension on international ...

Spanish center-right riding voter anger to victory

MADRID (Reuters) - Voter anger over Spain's economic plight is certain to sweep the center-right People's Party to an election victory on Sunday, giving it a resounding mandate to slash public spending and try to rescue the country from the euro zone ...

Spanish centre-right riding voter anger to victory

MADRID (Reuters) - Voter anger over Spain's economic plight is certain to sweep the center-right People's Party to an election victory on Sunday, giving it a resounding mandate to slash public spending and try to rescue the country from the euro zone ...

S&P cuts Spain rating by one notch on weak growth

MADRID (Reuters) - Standard and Poor's cut Spain's credit rating on Friday, sending the euro lower and underlining the challenges facing Europe's big powers as they prepare to meet G20 counterparts over the euro-zone debt crisis.S&P, whose move mirrored that by fellow ...

Spain acts to boost coffers, stimulate housing

Spain's government agreed Friday steps to boost state coffers by 4.9 billion euros ($7.0 billion) and aid the property sector in 2011, aiming to calm fears of a sovereign debt crisis.A cabinet meeting called by Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero agreed ...

Some $4 trillion wiped off world stocks in 2 weeks

LONDON (Reuters) - Some $4 trillion has been wiped off the value of world stocks this month on concerns the euro zone debt crisis is spreading to Italy and Spain and hurting Europe's banking system, and the global economy is falling into ...

Obama speaks with Spanish, Italy leaders on eurozone

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Monday welcomed measures by Spain and Italy aimed at addressing their economic crisis, the White House said.Obama spoke by telephone with Spanish President Jose Luis Zapatero and Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi in the face ...