Emerging-Market Stocks Drop for Second Day on Euro Debt Concern BusinessWeek
July 6 (Bloomberg) -- Emerging-market stocks declined for a second day as Moody’s downgrade of Portugal revived concern that Europe’s debt crisis will damage global growth.
The MSCI Emerging Markets Index decreased 0.2 percent to 1,164.07 as of 11:09 a.m. in London, after earlier climbing as much as 0.1 percent. Turkey’s ISE National 100 Index fell 0.5 percent and the FTSE/JSE Africa All Shares Index retreated by 0.5 percent, the first decline for the South African benchmark gauge in nine days. The MSCI China Index, which tracks mostly Hong Kong-traded shares, fell 1.1 percent, led by banks.
Moody’s Investors Service downgraded Portugal’s debt four levels to junk yesterday, creating concern the country may require a second bailout. The rate of growth by service industries in the U.S. probably fell in June, according to analysts surveyed by Bloomberg News before Institute for Supply Management data due for release today.
What can be done to mitigate the current Eurozone debt crisis on Africa?
(www.abndigital.com) Africa appears to have weathered the global economic crisis to some extent. However, what can be done to mitigate the current ...
What is the debt crisis in Africa?
I'm doing a geography project about Drop the Debt and I need some help.
didnt they build a dam in the wrong place. or was that Kenya....? lol
This is called "not being able to service your debt", and when a payment is missed, it is called "defaulting".
In this way the missed interest is added to the sum borrowed by the lender, and the debt grows and so logically does the next interest payment! (which they couldn't afford to pay to begin with).
This spiral has become so severe for some that the Gross National Product of the entire country would not be enough to pay for the loan.
These are loans these countries took out with lenders like the International Monetary Fund, individual other wealthier (developed) countries and big international banks (some of which are High Street names).
Unfortunately the people living in these countries have this debt hanging over them, when much of the money borrowed was corruptly siphoned off by the people in power for their own gain, and the population never benefitted fairly from the loans taken out in their countries' names.
So, some folk here in UK think we should write off these outstanding loans. The reason being is that they hold back the development of certain African countries.
Dump the loans and start afresh - no new loans. etc....
Russia to bail out debt-ridden European countries ?
By Marcus Williams. Russia may resuce Europe from its debt crisis provided it sees a concrete rescue plan from the continent’s partners, President Dmitry Medvedev’s economic aide said yesterday. Former finance minister Alexei Kudrin and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov discussed the issue of debt with Spanish Finance Minister Elena Salgado, according to the aide Arkady Dvorkovich. “We expect the European countries to announce a concrete, clear crisis exit strategy. If support from Russia and other BRICS (Brazil, India, China and South Africa) nations is needed within the framework of this strategy, we are ready to render such support,” Interfax quoted Dvorkovich as saying. Russia is also considering doling out $3.4 billion) to Cyprus by the end of the year. During the 2008 economic crisis, Russia looked at bailing out Iceland with a multi-billion dollar loan which never came to pass
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