02-08-2011, por Larry Elliott e Jill Treanor
US debt crisis continues as turmoil infects Italy and Spain
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.
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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. (Continua)
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https://www.theguardian.com/business/2011/aug/02/debt-crisis-turmoil-italy-spain
2011-08-04
