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Goldman Sachs Projects that Portugal will be Last European Bailout
Thursday, April 7, 2011 - 5:07am | 187Read More...Goldman Sachs is telling clients in a newly-released note that it sees Portugal being the last European nation to seek a bailout, following Greece and Ireland. Francesco Garzarelli, Goldman Sachs's chief interest-rate strategist said that “We do not expect any other EMU sovereign to be in need of...
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Portugal Asks Europe for Financial Bailout
Wednesday, April 6, 2011 - 9:21pm | 158Read More...Portugal is the latest European nation to seek a financial bailout, citing high interest rates on an increasingly burdensome debt load. "The government decided today to ask the European Commission for financial help," Prime Minister José Sócrates said in a televised statement Wednesday evening....
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When Will Ya' Learn? Japan Airlines Bites the Dust for Fourth Time in Ten Years
Tuesday, January 19, 2010 - 11:56am | 75Read More...Although it is Japan's biggest non-financial firm bankruptcy ever, Japan Airlines Corp. will survive and keep flying thanks to a state-supported 600 billion yen credit line, 300 billion yen cash injection, and a forgiven 730 billion yen worth of debt. Shareholders, bond owners, and the upper...

