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5 Startling Figures That Should Have You Worried About Italy Here's a list of 10 startling figures that demonstrate why Italy is in the mess that it's in and why these figures should make investors quake in their boots.   |
BusinessWeek
February 16, 2011
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How Silvio Berlusconi Has Managed to Hang On Battered by a sex scandal, the Italian Prime Minister is still in power, helped in part by his Finance Minister and weak opposition parties. |
BusinessWeek
April 18, 2005
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Italy: What's Keeping The Brakes On Growth The latest news shows that business confidence in March fell to its lowest reading since July, 2003, with drops reported in orders and production. The economy's woes are giving Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi political problems. |
BusinessWeek
August 11, 2003
James Mehring |
Italy: One-Time Fixes Won't Do the Trick With Italy's rapidly aging population, pension reforms are needed. Otherwise, reducing budget deficits will become increasingly more difficult. |
BusinessWeek
April 26, 2004
Gail Edmondson |
Can You Say "Supply Side" In Italian? Berlusconi's plan to cut income taxes could wind up causing a deficit nightmare |
BusinessWeek
December 20, 2004
James Mehring |
Italy: Will Berlusconi's Tax Cuts Make A Mark? After much government infighting, italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi finally got an $8.7 billion tax-cut package passed. But while most of the cuts will go to consumers, the money could be used more wisely. |
BusinessWeek
February 2, 2004
Gail Edmondson |
Italy Needs A Renaissance In Corporate And Market Regulation Will public outrage over Parmalat finally bring new rules with sharp teeth? |
BusinessWeek
October 20, 2003 |
Italy: Trying To Ease The Pension Squeeze Is Italy getting serious about pension reform? Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has made it the focal point of his 2004 budget, even taking the unusual move of going on national television to plead his case. |
The Motley Fool
November 9, 2011
Matt Koppenheffer |
Italy Is Driving the World Crazy Stocks around the world sank and Italian bond yields shot up after Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi offered to resign after failing to receive majority support in a parliamentary ballot. |
The Motley Fool
November 7, 2011
John Grgurich |
1 Thing Investors Need to Know About Italy's Debt Crisis It has the potential to be uglier than Greece. |
BusinessWeek
July 3, 2006
Gail Edmondson |
Barbarian In The Palace "The Sack of Rome: How a Beautiful European Country with a Fabled History And a Storied Culture Was Taken Over by a Man Named Silvio Berlusconi" is an engrossing account of what happens when an Italian media mogul turns prime minister. |
AskMen.com
Mr. Mafioso |
Mafioso: Berlusconi If it's good to be the king, it must be great to be the Premier of Italy. |
BusinessWeek
December 8, 2003
Christina Passariello |
Why Italians Are Saying "Arrivederci" The country's best and brightest are moving abroad to further their careers |
The Motley Fool
November 9, 2011
John Maxfield |
To Avoid Default, Italy Must Be Bailed Out Ideas on how to profit from Italy's eventual default. |
Search Engine Watch
March 3, 2010
Michael Bonfils |
Search Around the World: Italy A look at the most popular search engines, top industries, and search marketing best practices in Italy. |
BusinessWeek
December 4, 2006
Maria Bartiromo |
Romano Prodi Opens Up Since he won election last April by a narrow margin over Silvio Berlusconi, Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi has made more waves than a powerboat in Venice. |
BusinessWeek
August 1, 2005
James Mehring |
Italy: Another Big Hole In The Budget Italy's government is fighting an uphill battle to control its budget deficits. |
IDB America
Jul/Aug 2000 |
Bureaucrats reborn Italy's civil service is undergoing a renaissance. According to Franco Bassanini, Italy's minister of public management, until quite recently his country's bureaucracy was characterized by "islands of excellence in a sea of general inefficiency"... |
BusinessWeek
April 4, 2005
Gail Edmondson |
European Banks: Will The Walls Tumble Down? A bid by Spain's BBVA for an Italian bank could finally unleash cross-border deals |
The Motley Fool
December 28, 2011
John Grgurich |
Italian Debt Auction Sends Yields Tumbling: What Investors Need to Know Could this be a good thing for Europe? |
BusinessWeek
March 21, 2005
Gail Edmondson |
Banca Intesa: Bring 'Em On Italy's largest bank is ready to fight off new competition if Italy lifts limits on foreign takeovers. |
BusinessWeek
June 6, 2005
Gail Edmondson |
Italy: The Euro Zone's Sickest Patient First-quarter data released this month reveal that Italy, the euro zone's third-largest economy, is officially in recession. |
BusinessWeek
August 16, 2004 |
Italy Bites The Bullet The center-right government approved $20.4 billion in spending cuts and $8.4 billion in one-time, revenue-raising measures to control the ballooning budget deficit. |
BusinessWeek
May 16, 2005
Edmondson & Kline |
Banking Italian Style A Dutch bid for Banca Antonveneta may get sidelined -- as Italy's own Lodi steps up to the plate. |
The Motley Fool
June 20, 2011
Alex Dumortier |
JPMorgan Wants Another Financial Crisis Bankers behaving badly. |
BusinessWeek
November 3, 2003
David Fairlamb |
A Family Feud Could Hobble The EU In the European union's corridors of power, the four biggest and economically strongest countries -- Germany, France, Britain, and Italy -- have always called the shots. Those days, however, may be gone forever. |
BusinessWeek
September 2, 2010
Sirletti & Donovan |
Italy Goes After Tax Dodgers Only 0.2 percent of Italian taxpayers declare income of more than $250,000 a year. Berlusconi's government is now determined to recoup $13 billion in unpaid taxes. |
BusinessWeek
February 2, 2004
John Rossant |
Italy's Coming Credit Crunch As a wave of corporate paper comes due, cash-strapped companies are in peril |
BusinessWeek
October 3, 2005 |
Bank Of Italy's Fazio Is Feeling The Heat Pressure is rising for embattled Bank of Italy Governor Antonio Fazio to step down. |
CIO
July 1, 2004
Philip Willan |
Italians Debate Open-Source Bias in IT Buys A law that encouraged government IT managers to use open-source software sounded like a good idea to officials in Italy's central Tuscany region. There's just one problem: EU free market rules. |
The Motley Fool
November 10, 2011
Alex Planes |
European Debt Is a Global Problem Are we doomed to make the same mistakes again? |
Bank Systems & Technology
July 5, 2004
Ivan Schneider |
The Price-Tag Mystery Even in a global economy, banking remains local. |
BusinessWeek
July 22, 2010
Sirletti & Rotondi |
Italy Leads Europe in Bank Robberies The country accounts for more than half of the Continent's heists. Most are small-time jobs. |
BusinessWeek
March 1, 2004
Gail Edmondson |
Parmalat: A Corporate Version Of "Clean Hands"? Every day, Italian investigators unearth fresh, worrisome details about the $17.8 billion Parmalat bankruptcy, Europe's worst-ever financial fraud. Plenty of heads may roll, but now Italy must get serious about good governance |
AskMen.com
October 2, 2002
Mark Simmons |
Italy's Soccer Situation Italy's football problems are structural and deep-rooted in a system that failed to be held accountable. Maybe, just maybe, if Italy's lack of business philosophy does not change, the once-proud Italian league may need to take a lesson or two from that other Italian institution. |
Bank Systems & Technology
January 23, 2009
Orla O'Sullivan |
Italy a Test Ground for Branch of the Future: News from Wincor World Italy tested the ProCash 3100 ATMs, now used by all of its top five banks. |
The Motley Fool
July 20, 2011
Sean Williams |
Buy This Sector to Beat the European Sovereign Debt Crisis Don't throw out the entire banking sector just because of a few bad apples. |
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June 1, 2010
Ivan Martchev |
Comparing the PIIGS A comparison of the infamous PIIGS quintet produces a surprising contrarian investment candidate: Spain. |
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February 25, 2010
Tara Kalwarski |
Finding Investing Pearls in PIIGS Countries Bad news in Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece, and Spain has spooked many investors - and created buying opportunities for those who know where to look. |
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March 2011
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A History of World Debt How public debt has changed since 1880. |
BusinessWeek
April 12, 2004
Gail Edmondson |
UniCredito: Is This Italian Bank A Powerhouse In The Making? CEO Profumo is ready to acquire enough heft to become a Continental heavyweight -- if regulators will only let him. |
The Motley Fool
July 4, 2011
Eric Dutram |
3 ETFs to Watch This Week: EWI, FXA, ENZL Keep an eye on New Zealand, Australia, and Italy. |
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June 2011 |
Balancing the Burden The costs of benefits for current retirees fall more on future Americans than on future Italians. |
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Berlusconi Hospitalized Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi was hit by a metal statute hurled by an assailant who has a history of mental problems. |
BusinessWeek
June 13, 2005
Carol Matlack |
For Europe, Opportunity Knocks Why the votes against the EU constitution may strengthen Europe. |
Sports Central
June 29, 2006
Piet Van Leer |
World Cup: Italy vs. Ukraine The second World Cup game on Friday features a depleted Italy squad against a goal-challenged Ukraine side in what is easily the least anticipated quarterfinal of the 2006 World Cup, unless you are an Italian or Ukranian fan. |
The Motley Fool
December 14, 2011
Sean Williams |
Germany: I Told You So! Don't say I didn't warn you about this once safe-haven investment. It definitely is making me think twice before considering an investment in foreign money center banks. |
The Motley Fool
August 13, 2010
Jared Cummans |
Friday's ETF to Watch: European ETF (VGK) The Vanguard European ETF tracks the MSCI Europe Index, a benchmark made up of common stocks of companies located in 16 European countries. |
Finance & Development
September 2010
Mark Horton |
How Grim a Fiscal Future? For most advanced economies, both the near term and the longer term are tight, but there are ways to ease budget pressures |
BusinessWeek
November 29, 2004
Maureen Kline |
The De Benedettis Are Back In Business Compagnie Industriali Riunite (CIR) share price has shot up 80% in the past two years. (The De Benedetti clan retains a 47% share.) The company, now focused on media and publishing, auto parts, and power, will post a 10% increase in profit over last year. |
