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Investors are also watching to see if the Fed discusses the sovereign debt crisis in the euro zone and its impact on the U. S. economy.

Since the beginning of Europe's sovereign debt crisis, China has repeatedly expressed its wish to offer "a helping hand" to Europe.

She said that the US and Japan had debt concerns as well and that the sovereign debt crisis threatened an already fragile recovery.

TRYING to flog sovereign debt three days after the fall of a neighbouring president appears audacious.

In Europe, fund managers and analysts said the focus had begun to shift from sovereign debt worries to US and Chinese economic data.

The Mediterranean, which had burdened northerners for over a year of sovereign-debt woes, can be rediscovered for its delights.

The European sovereign debt issue has risen again with Portugal likely needing aid; how much and when are the only questions remaining.

The German chancellor's sentiment demonstrates the political will not to let Europe's sovereign debt crisis undermine the single currency.

HOW much does Mr Market dislike Greece's sovereign debt?

Many will look to see how firm his commitment to higher rates really is in the face of the continued sovereign debt troubles in the EU.

EVER since Greece plunged into a sovereign-debt crisis in 2009, investors have focused on which European country might be next.

Jitters about whether the emergency loan package would be enough to stem the euro zone's sovereign debt crisis also hammered Spanish stocks.

He said he was pleased to note that Greece was coming out of the shadow of a sovereign debt crisis.

The Europeans have been trying to manage the sovereign debt crisis for over a year now with only marginal success.

With one of the worst debt positions among industrialised countries, the cost of insuring against default on Japanese sovereign debt soared.

Investors seem to be in two minds on sovereign debt.

as investors continued to dump banking and insurance stocks amid fears over the spreading sovereign debt crisis.

The sovereign debt crisis has exposed how complacency has long been a problem for Europe, especially when it comes to economic policymaking.

It would need only a small fraction of this wealth to have an enormous impact on the sovereign debt crisis in Europe.

Demand for China's exports is under threat as the U. S. recovery weakens and European officials grapple with a sovereign-debt crisis.

Bank stocks also dropped throughout Europe as worries about sovereign debt continued to undermine confidence.

But analysts warned the move did not address the fundamental issues behind the eurozone's sovereign debt crisis.

However, investors' biggest financial concern is sovereign debt, notably that of some southern European countries.

There are three issues that Europe is trying to struggle with at once: competitiveness, the banking system and sovereign debt.

With the ECB determined to tell investors that sovereign debt can default, they have created a perfect recipe for a self-imposed disaster.

A small eurobond, covering only a small percentage of sovereign debt, looks like a tempting fudge. But it will not solve the crisis.

In a sense, of course, only the central bank has enough firepower definitively to end the run on eurozone sovereign debt.

To stem the unfolding sovereign debt crisis and save the euro, European summits seem to provide too little, too late.

But sovereign debt problems are a typical aftershock of any wave of international financial crises.

As Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, has pointed out, the European sovereign debt crisis poses a threat to the very future of the EU.

The integrity of the eurozone has been considered sacrosanct by its core members throughout the long running European sovereign debt crisis.

But there has been a change in the political dynamics of the continent's sovereign debt crisis.

The cycle could start if sovereign debt worries cut off the supply of bank funding (the money needed to support operations).

A bigger fund (and the social pact) should soften worries about Spanish sovereign debt, at least for the time being.

The European Central Bank's purchases of Spanish and Italian sovereign debt continue to take the air out of inflated bond yields.

Outside the U. S. , many companies are waiting to see how Europe's sovereign debt crisis will play out.

It said the fund has closed out all of its positions on European sovereign debt.

FOR a few weeks over the Christmas holidays, Europeans put their sovereign-debt crisis on hold.

The best solution would be the creation of two separate tiers of eurozone sovereign debt, senior and junior.

And it is still possible to short sovereign debt directly: Belgian bonds are "the next big trade" , says one undeterred hedge.

THERE is only so much fun to be had from a sovereign-debt crisis that has the potential to bring down banks and derail the global economy.

It follows the onset of a sovereign debt crisis in Europe which has seen Greece bailed out by the IMF and Spain face an investor exodus.

Equally, says Philip Klapwijk of GFMS, the rally could be extended if the eurozone sovereign debt crisis were to spread.

That 's because ongoing worries about sovereign debt levels in Europe and a wobbly euro have helped drive demand , the group said .

The Bank of England's governor, Mervyn King, did little to downplay concerns about the sovereign debt crisis.

European stocks declined as a bailout of Ireland failed to reassure investors that the region's sovereign debt crisis will be contained.

But Europe's response to what could be the seminal moment of its sovereign debt saga is flawed.

Sovereign debt problems in Europe and the protracted political battle over increasing the U. S. debt ceiling have weighed on stocks.

EUROPE'S year-long attempt to grapple with the sovereign-debt crisis is becoming more nailbiting by the day.

If Dubai is the sovereign debt equivalent of Northern Rock, then Greece might be its Bear Stearns and Japan its Lehman Brothers.

In recent months, Chinese leaders have repeatedly pledged to help European countries struggling with sovereign debt crises.

But he noted the rally could fizzle out down the road if investors remain unconvinced the sovereign debt issues have been resolved.

True, the regulator obliged MF to raise more capital when it perceived the risks the firm was running with its holdings of sovereign debt.

Rather, the sovereign debt crises that Europe is experiencing today are a typical aftershock of a deep financial crisis.

Moreover, most Asian economies, with the exception of Japan, do not have sovereign debt like that weighing on Europe and the United States.

"The credibility of US sovereign debt has steadily declined since the eruption of the subprime crisis, " it said.

Europe's fumbling of its sovereign-debt crisis rattled investors and business executives around the world.

SHANGHAI - Who's afraid of the United States' credit downgrade and the worsening sovereign debt crisis in Europe?

In the eurozone, the well flagged risk of sovereign debt hasn't gone away, he said, even if markets are feeling better.

We believe this proposal provides a strong, credible and timely response to the ongoing sovereign debt crisis.

Part of the attraction of the Chinese finance ministry's bonds was that they are seen as high-quality sovereign debt.

One of the drawbacks could well be upward pressure on sovereign debt. In other words more expensive government borrowing.

There is likely to be more volatility around the sovereign debt crisis until we get more capital committed to the solution.

The turmoil in markets for supposedly safe sovereign debt shows why risk weights can be so dangerous.

S& P cut Italy's sovereign-debt rating to A from A , with negative outlook, citing weak growth prospects and a "fragile" government.

As it relates to Europe sovereign debt, the one solution that has not been seriously considered is failure.

It is only this year that financial markets started to worry about the accumulation of sovereign debt within the eurozone.

If Spain needs EU help to keep sovereign-debt yields down, it can at least tell suspicious Germans that it is an eager, obedient pupil.

Over the weekend, Italy's president tapped Mario Monti to lead the country out of Europe's sovereign debt crisis.

Sovereign debt, spending cuts, and social unrest were a familiar sequence across the EU.

Yields on Italian and Spanish sovereign debt were climbing into the danger zone, threatening to fly out of control.

This suggests that the bulk of these sovereign-debt holdings are buried in small, not very savvy German banks.

Beijing has emerged as one of the more enthusiastic backers of distressed European sovereign debt in recent months.

So there is no reason for eurozone politicians to take the sovereign debt crisis as a justification for dictating how agencies operate.

He also discussed increasing a bet against the euro, as a hedge against the impact of further pressure from Europe's sovereign debt crisis.

"The European sovereign debt problems are a potentially serious setback, " Tarullo told two congressional subcommittees.

At a summit in Beijing on December 25th the two countries announced an agreement to let Japan buy Chinese sovereign debt.

That sums up the eurozone's response to its sovereign debt crisis.

Banking and insurance stocks also rose, recovering some of the recent losses driven by the sovereign debt crisis.

That will need to change if it hopes to finally put a lid on this long-running sovereign debt crisis and move forward.

Behind the scenes, sovereign-debt specialists are devising ways to minimise the impact of an "orderly restructuring" on banks.

The eurozone has headed down many blind alleys in its search for a solution to the sovereign debt crisis.

But if Lehman Brothers' collapse was unthinkable, they now face the unimaginable: fears of a sovereign-debt crisis in the euro zone.

Europe's sovereign debt crisis has calmed, thanks to a number of policy moves. But things are still considered vulnerable.

Big banks have reduced their sovereign debt exposure, but they still have tens of billions of dollars of it.

Fast-moving developments on sovereign debt may force quicker decisions than had been envisaged even recently.

Stockmarkets also seemed to recover from the shock of the sovereign-debt crisis, rallying strongly in the last quarter of 2010.

The third fear is that it is just a matter of time until another crisis strikes, in Europe's sovereign debt market.

But the pressure is considerable, especially as anxiety rises about the health of European banks, since they carry so much sovereign debt.

But evidence of a genuine increase in purchases of distressed European sovereign debt is lacking.

Questions remain about whether the sovereign debt crises in the eurozone have been resolved or merely deferred.

The European Union cannot fix its sovereign debt problem without a holistic solution that quells investors' concerns about banks.

Sovereign-debt problems in Europe have made some investors reluctant to shift their holdings from dollars into euros.

Why not use the much-heralded stability fund as collateral for a European Brady bond plan that puts an end to the sovereign debt saga?

The market is now forcing European leaders to quickly decide how they want the rest of the sovereign debt crisis to play out.

Even as the region's sovereign-debt crisis has deepened over the past year, its currency has gained ground against the greenback.

The next European crisis: boat people FOR THE past year excessive sovereign debt has endangered the European project.

America was on the verge of a technical default on its sovereign debt.

The sovereign debt crisis has degenerated into a banking crisis.

There was a similar slowdown in US growth last summer amid the first round of Greece's sovereign debt crisis.

TWO YEARS AGO yields on sovereign debt issued by countries in the euro zone suddenly became interesting for people other than bond traders.

Everything's feeding into this -- sovereign debt, the weaker dollar, inflation and investment demand. It is unusual to do it in Asian time.

Unlike European and American sovereign debt, which is all too available, Asian debt commands favourable prices in part because it is rare.

However , European M&A activity weakened for the fifth consecutive quarter as sovereign debt worries deterred corporate acquisitions .

Analysts note that sovereign-debt problems in Europe have made many reluctant to shift their holdings into euros.

For the time being, the credit agencies continue to give French sovereign debt a top rating, enabling it to borrow cheaply.

When a country fails to pay back its sovereign debt, this is called a sovereign default.

This triggered a sovereign debt downgrade and a sharp further fall in the already depreciated krona.

Just look, to cite one example, at how the euro moved after Moody's warned on Wednesday it could downgrade Spanish sovereign debt.

Any downgrade of Japanese sovereign debt would certainly increase the likelihood of a debt crisis.

The education woes in Portugal show the extent of Europe's challenge as it tries to right itself amid the sovereign-debt crisis.

The United States narrowly averted a fiscal crisis. Some EU members are facing mounting sovereign debt risks.

European countries should not overestimate the role of the IMF in solving their current sovereign debt crises.

Goldman blamed concerns over the European sovereign-debt crisis and regulatory uncertainties.

In fact, some wonder whether the sovereign debt crisis in Europe could unleash a renewed wave of downward pressure on prices.

In Europe, Atos won't be particularly hit despite slower government spending linked to the sovereign debt crisis, Mr. Breton says.

It was only this year that financial markets started to worry about the accumulation of sovereign debt within the euro zone.

A look back to the late 18th century could provide insights into what can be done to resolve a sovereign debt crisis.

European banks do not have this kind of "leverage ratio, " and Basel II has allowed them to treat sovereign debt as having zero risk.

The sovereign debt crisis has put European monetary union in jeopardy and called into question the sustainability of the European project.

Added to that Europe's policy makers seem unwilling to pull out all of the stops to halt contagion from the sovereign debt crisis.

THE headlines are all about sovereign debt at the moment.

It is now being discussed as a possible model for resolving Greece's sovereign-debt crisis.

But, in a world of rapidly rising sovereign debt, the next euro-crisis might only be months away.

Other schemes involve a donor accepting the responsibility of upgrading a slum in return for a sovereign debt.

Ms Lagarde is right to warn that sovereign debt and stagnant growth pose new risks of instability in the banking system.

The sovereign debt crisis is not just limited to the eurozone but is spread throughout the developed world.

In Europe, the correlation between the euro and the default risk of Greek sovereign debt is almost perfect.

It will also set a precedent for dealing with potential writedowns on Portuguese, or other sovereign debt.

Standard &Poor's now stands alone among the big ratings agencies in having downgraded American sovereign debt to AA .

A vicious feedback loop between growth, sovereign-debt concerns and banking woes is now in train.

International rating agency Standard & Poor's recently announced long-term sovereign debt rating lowered Italian level, outlook is negative.

The farcical debate on the debt ceiling temporarily distracted traders from the slow-motion sovereign debt crisis in Europe.

Of course, the reason why a widening sovereign debt crisis is so serious is that there is no one to bail out large governments.

It was another tumultuous week for euro-zone banks, which are being battered by the region's sovereign-debt crisis.

The European sovereign debt crisis is to drag down the global economic stability recovery.

Sovereign-debt managers in rich countries used to focus on borrowing as cheaply as possible.

Yet losses must be possible if investors are to distinguish between sovereign-debt issuers.

Greece was hit by the sovereign debt crisis not long ago and stands at a critical moment of overcoming difficulties.

The immediate concern for the new government must be its ballooning sovereign debt.

The exercise temporarily eased fears about European banks' vulnerabilities to the burgeoning sovereign-debt crisis.

Some of these countries are at crossroads because of sovereign debt problems, because of financial sector problems.

The eurozone has been attracting plenty of opprobrium for its dysfunctional handling of the sovereign debt crisis.

Such is the story most commonly told since the start of the euro zone's sovereign-debt crisis.

That sovereign debt crisis is now leaking back into the financial system.

This would be true even if the global economic tides hadn't shifted in the wake of the euro-zone sovereign debt crisis.

Growth is expected to be around 2. 6 per cent this year; many even believe the country could be soon be hit by the sovereign debt crisis.

All this, though, was before the Greek sovereign debt crisis saw the eurozone under siege.

The emerging world already suspected the eurozone of using the IMF as a piggy bank for its own sovereign debt crisis.

As Italy's new government plots its next steps, Kirkegaard says officials could tap parts of its citizens' wealth to buy up sovereign debt.

China has also emerged as a major buyer of European sovereign debt, crucial to keeping euro zone borrowers afloat.

Fears that sovereign debt problems could spread, in spite of the Greek bail-out, have sent share prices around the world tumbling this week.

The major topic was the continuing European sovereign-debt crisis.

They will move from separate to joint liability of sovereign debt guarantees, possibly leading eventually to a eurozone bond.

And this weakness has occurred even though the dollar's greatest rival, the euro, is ensnared in a sovereign-debt crisis.

A sovereign-debt manager's greatest fear is a failed auction, in which bids fall short of the debt on offer.

That depends on potential losses on sovereign debt, which is not only unknown but depends on policy decisions still to be taken.

"The potential deflationary impact of the eurozone sovereign debt problems is tremendous. "

And Ireland is bracing itself for a credit downgrade on its sovereign debt.

Lastly, the sovereign debt problems in Europe and tensions in the Middle East remain a concern to risk sentiment in the near term.

Larger institutional investors head to local currency sovereign debt, while medium-sized ones stay with dollar denominated debt, he says.

The G20's reflexive hostility to non-market determined exchange rates could be another casualty of the eurozone sovereign debt crisis.

Other schemes involves donor accepting the responsibility of upgrading a sluminreturn for a sovereign debt.

I've been avoiding European bank stocks for another reason: Who knows where the exposure to shaky sovereign debt really lies?

The European sovereign-debt crisis has produced its own sequence of denials and recantations.

Those spreads, close to levels during the eurozone sovereign debt crisis, suggest that a default is not only possible but quite likely.

The nervousness surrounding many European banks is rooted in fears about losses they face, particularly on their sovereign debt holdings.

Azumi was being asked about Japan's possible contribution to European efforts to stem its sovereign debt and banking crisis.

The cost of insuring Portuguese sovereign debt against default rose in response and the euro slipped.

Nearly two years after Europe's sovereign debt crisis erupted, market and political uncertainty are worse than ever.

Japanese sovereign debt is in a league all its own.

China purchased government bonds of Greek and Spain, and has taken credible steps to support Europe's response to the sovereign debt crisis.

True, European politicians have excoriated "speculators" that destabilise the market in sovereign debt.

But offerings were largely put on hold during May and part of June as the sovereign-debt crisis grew in Europe.

The list of worries is long. Concerns about the banks affect sovereign debt, which in turn affects the banks in a vicious circle.

It can be seen that the European sovereign debt crisis is intricately interconnected with a European bank crisis.

But this ignores Germany's major share of responsibility for the currency and banking crises, if not for the sovereign-debt crisis.

The fight over whether European banks have sufficient capital highlights a flaw in the accounting treatment of sovereign debt, experts say.

The sovereign debt crisis especially in Europe hangs over the market.

Fourth, forcing banks to hold, permanently, large amounts of sovereign debt will make them vulnerable to the vagaries of the bond market.

I myself have helped to negotiate many sovereign debt restructurings, from Bolivia to Poland to Nigeria and beyond. But Greece is different.

Italy has had its sovereign debt rating cut by Standard Poor's, the latest move in a deepening European debt crisis.

Lazard recently advised countries like Argentina, Ecuador and Ivory Coast on sovereign debt restructurings.

Increases in volatility and sovereign debt risk will also undermine business and consumer confidence in ways that move beyond Europe.

The European Union is faced with a rolling sovereign debt crisis and social unrest.

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The conjoined banking-sovereign debt problems in Europe are already forcing its banks to cut back lending.

Seth Klarman's $24 billion Baupost Group is opening its first overseas office this year to take advantage of Europe's sovereign debt crisis.

European Union leaders are meeting in Brussels to thrash out the details of plans to fix the euro zone's sovereign debt crisis.

The economics of the eurozone's sovereign debt crisis are difficult enough, but the existential threat lies in the politics.

For Italy, paying three times Germany's rates on its sovereign debt is another drag on a fragile economy.

The crisis of the real and financial economy led to a sovereign-debt crisis.

While true, that is just part of the massive sovereign debt bill the country rang up in the past decade.

and sovereign debt, the internal contradictions of the EU one after another quite some leg to stand on.

Adding to the uncertain mood were fresh concerns about the eurozone periphery following another downgrade to Greece's sovereign debt rating.

This has led to potentially dangerous concentrations of sovereign debt.

For all the talk of the euro failing to survive this sovereign-debt crisis, it should struggle through.

The move is intended to free up liquidity and ensure that European banks have funds during the sovereign debt crisis.

At best, reliance on fiscal disciplines and sovereign debt restructuring is sure to generate massively pro-cyclical policy.

The cost of insuring Greek sovereign debt against default also rose slightly.

With high levels of short-term debt, Ukraine's overall debt profile looks much more worrying than its sovereign debt profile.

If the European sovereign debt crisis leads to defaults then these banks would suffer huge holes in their balance sheets.

Belgium and Ireland also suffered outflows amid turmoil on sovereign debt markets in Europe.

One state law did almost pass, but banks that underwrite emerging-market sovereign-debt issues managed to block it.

No. Prior to the onset of crisis, markets ignored the relative riskiness of eurozone member countries' sovereign debt.

This might seem incredible in light of the sovereign-debt crisis which loomed so large in 2010.

In 2010, the bill came due in the form of a sovereign debt crisis.

As the biggest creditor country, Germany holds the key to resolving the euro zone's sovereign-debt crisis.

True, Europe may already be in recession and the region's politicians have not yet come up with a solution to the sovereign-debt crisis.

Markets have cheered the news of the the EU's rescue package for Greek sovereign debt crisis.

PSI is the polite way to talk about the restructuring of some of the sovereign debt held by the private sector .

'We haven't seen the end of the European sovereign debt crisis, but we will still continue to invest in shopping centers' globally, said Mr.

This could be accomplished by converting the bulk of their sovereign debt into Eurobonds.

Sovereign debt problems will spread into the core of Europe -- France, Germany, and Britian -- and then to the US.

Prices of credit-default swaps on sovereign debt have risen sharply, suggesting that investors see growing risks of default.

This could lead to a concentration of risk, including a buildup of sovereign debt or asset bubbles in domestic capital markets.

For one thing, its banks are stuffed with dodgy sovereign debt. On the other side, default is a strictly temporary escape route.

The sustainability of sovereign debt hangs heavily over bond markets, and the prospects for economic and financial stability.

Now, however, investors are "trotting out the familiar issues aroundEuropean sovereign debt woes, " Dunigan said.

The downgrade by Standard & Poor's of US sovereign debt, from triple A to double A plus, was precipitate, wrong and dangerous.

With the outbreak of the European sovereign debt crisis, the world economy is faced with the new shocks and uncertainties.

Yet it is clearly a popular idea among the European politicians who are managing the sovereign debt crisis.

The immediate source of trouble is the euro area, which is struggling to stop the spread of its sovereign-debt crisis.

She warned that the sovereign debt crisis in Europe required urgent action.

Q: It's reported that China has offered to help euro-zone countries with their sovereign debt crisis.

It allowed banks to set aside no capital for any sovereign debt rated above double A minus.

In their response to the sovereign-debt crisis, Europe's policymakers have tended to favour the peashooter.

Some European banks haven't sufficiently written down the value of Greek government bonds and other distressed sovereign debt they own.

By January the financial crisis had faded and Europe's sovereign-debt crisis seemed less acute. America's economy was resurgent.

Europe is where I see the greatest uncertainty, because we don't know how the sovereign debt issue will be handled.

The French banks' portfolios of commercial and retail loans in those countries dwarf their holdings of sovereign debt.

Besides, there are many ways to help without exposing China to sovereign debt.

Every time they change the rating of a sovereign debt they move the markets.

Using the ECB to back sovereign debt might be seen in some quarters as another stealthy step towards fiscal union.

Portugal's downgrade was a sign that sovereign-debt concerns could transmit from one euro-zone economy to another.

Thanks to Greece's sovereign-debt crisis, which has terrified politicians, stimulus is out and deficit reduction is in.

S in the coming months and even expected consumption in Europe to hold up amid the sovereign debt crisis.

It wasn't a surprise, but the downgrade of Greek sovereign debt by Fitch to triple B-plus still came as a shock.

The outbreak of the Greek sovereign-debt crisis has profound internal and external reasons.

Stockmarkets had another rocky week amid more concern over sovereign debt in Europe.

Rather, they are 'sub-sovereign debt. ' Since most new financial debt is guaranteed, investors are allocating more to nonfinancial issues.

The credit-rating agencies have recently downgraded Greek sovereign debt still further, from junk to junkier.

Hans Christian Andersen's tale is worth remembering as politicians apportion blame for sovereign-debt scares.

Some countries were "clearly struggling" so sovereign debt was on the agenda, he added.

He demonstrated his self-serving skills at the recent EU summit in Brussels on the euro zone's sovereign-debt crisis.

Sovereign debt crises elsewhere in the eurozone imposed pressures Italy lacked the capacity to withstand.

Emerging Europe is on the verge of a fully fledged sovereign-debt, banking and currency crisis.

On the other side of Mare Nostrum, Europe's sovereign debt crisis spread from riotous Greece to Portugal, and then to Italy and Spain.

European governments have announced a clampdown on using derivatives to bet against sovereign debt.

The growing worries over sovereign debt have been reflected in bond yield spreads.