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The Guardian 02-08-2011, por Larry Elliott e Jill Treanor

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2011/aug/02/debt-crisis-turmoil-italy-spain

US debt crisis continues as turmoil infects Italy and Spain

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Financial markets in Europe  and North America were gripped by a new sense of crisis as the turmoil caused by the narrowly averted US debt default moved back across the Atlantic and infected Italy and Spain – two key members of the eurozone.

(..) Interest rates on Spanish and Italian bonds rose to well above 6%, the level that signalled the beginning of the bailout process for Greece, Ireland and Portugal.
Meanwhile, interest rates on assets seen as safer fell sharply, with the yield on UK 10-year gilts dropping to an all-time low of 2.77%. Gold rose to a new record level for a ninth day in a row on Tuesday.

Wall Street's Dow Jones index had lost 266 points by the close in New York – its eighth successive fall and longest losing streak since the global banking system was on the brink of collapse in October 2008. (..) 

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