Showing posts with label Bailout. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bailout. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Greek Debt Bailout

Europe bailed out Greece, but it did not have its intended effect:
Euro-zone governments and the International Monetary Fund hoped that a €110 billion ($145.14 billion) rescue package for Greece would soothe investors' nerves over high sovereign-debt levels in Spain, Italy, Portugal and Ireland. Instead, it had the opposite effect, with fears of contagion rising throughout the day.

"The new stage of the crisis is cross-market contamination," says Claire Dissaux, head of global economics and strategy at Millennium Global Investments in London.

Investors are concerned that the three-year financial package won't fix Greece's longer-term funding problems. Investors are edgy about far-larger economies such as Spain and Italy.
There is a dark non-volcano related cloud over Europe right now.