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Spain sells short-term debt at higher costs
LONDON (ShareCast) - Spain managed to sell more short-term sovereign debt that it had originally predicted today but with mixed results on both demand and financing costs. The Spanish Treasury sold a total of EUR3.51bn in debt, above the EUR2.5bn-EUR3.5bn range announced on Monday. It issued EUR892m in three-month bills but the average yield moved up to 0.331% from the prior 0.120%. However, ...
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Spanish media ridicules departing Mourinho
The front pages of Tuesday morning's Spanish sports papers showed their excitement at the news Jose Mourinho was to leave Real Madrid at the season's end. Marca's cover said [in English] 'The Special End', while AS' headline read 'Lots of noise, but few nuts' - a Spanish version of 'Much Ado About Nothing'. Diego Torres of El Pais, who ...
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Spanish media savour Mourinho’s exit
Fellow Catalan daily Sport ran a front-page photograph showing Mourinho from the back as he departed through a door marked ';Exit';. The paper quoted Carles Vallarubi, vice president of Barcelona as saying: ';Mou was a scar on Spanish ...
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Granada Local Policeman accused of killing a lawyer commits suicide
Rosa Cobo, to death with his truncheon last September 20th committed suicide on Sunday inside the Albocsaser jail in Castelln. Despite being in module 13 reserved for difficult prisoners, he managed to kill himself by hanging from his belt. He was the only suspect in the solicitor's killing because it got caught on her garage ...
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Real Madrid release Mourinho but PSG refuse to part with Ancelotti - video
tells Spanish media that manager Jos Mourinho will be allowed to leave the club, paving the way for him to make a return to Chelsea. Prez says Real Madrid approached Paris Saint-Germain to enquire about Carlo Ancelotti, who requested to leave the French side, but were told he was not ...
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Dortmunds Hummels dismisses Barcelona talk
Mats Hummels has looked to end speculation about his future by telling kicker he has not been in contact with Barcelona and intends to remain at Borussia ...
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Spain Meets Maximum Target at Bill Auction as Yields Increase
Spain met its upper goal at a sale of bills today as borrowing costs rose ahead of a meeting of European Union leaders. The Madrid-based Treasury sold 3.51 billion euros ($4.52 billion) of bills, compared with an upper target of 3.5 billion euros. It sold three-month bills at an average 0.331 percent today, compared with 0.12 percent on April 23. It sold nine-month debt at 0.789 percent, ...
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FOOTBALL Spanish attempt 100 years ago to form National team to play Gibraltar
By Leo OliveroHow ironic can issues sometimes turn out? After nearly 15 years of Spanish hassle and aggravation over the ...
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Import of Spanish poultry products banned
(27 mins ago) Poultry and products, including eggs, from Catalonia has been banned after a notification from the World Organization of Animal Health about an outbreak of low-pathogenic H7N1 avian influenza on a poultry farm in the Spanish province, the Center for Food Safety announced today. About 4,600 tonnes of frozen poultry meat was imported into Hong Kong from Spain last year, the center ...
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Spain gives Mourinho backhanded compliments
(1 hr 6 mins ago) Spain's press bid a caustic farewell Tuesday to self-anointed Special One Jose Mourinho, jeering his divisive three-tear reign at Real Madrid and his failure to win more silverware. "The Special End'' ran the front page headline of top-selling sports paper Marca, superimposed on a photograph of a football shirt being held up by Mourinho and club president ...
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Spain Paper Review - Tuesday May 21 2013
Publish your add for free Please note that only Spain-related classifieds will be accepted The Classifieds are ordered by ...
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Telefonica Vodafone hit by defections in Spain
Vodafone the biggest losers. In the first three months of the year more than 1.8 million consumers moved to another mobile company, data from telecoms regulator CMT showed on ...
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Jose Reina happy to resist Barcelona and remain at Liverpool
touted as a possible replacement for long-serving Bara goalkeeper Victor Valdes , who has told the Catalan club he intends to leave and could sever ties this summer.The 31-year-old Reina, who came up through the youth ranks at Bara before joining Villarreal over a decade ago, said of the speculation: "I have three more years with Liverpool. I'm satisfied, comfortable and my family are ...
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Research and Markets Spain Storage Market Analysis and Outlook to 2020
"Spain Storage Market Analysis and Outlook to 2020 - Drivers, Challenges, Infrastructure, Supply- demand and competitive landscape" report to their offering. Spain oil and gas storage industry research work from OGAnalysis is a compulsory report for all analysts involved in the oil storage sector. It provides all the key trends and analyzes the drivers and restraints of ...
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Sports Real Madrid confirm Mourinho exit
Mourinho, 50, who has been linked with a return to Chelsea, won the league and Copa del Rey at Madrid. "We've decided to bring our relationship to an end," said Perez. "Nobody's been sacked, it's a mutual agreement." Real are currently 13 points behind Barcelona in the league and were beaten by city rivals Atletico in the Spanish Cup final last Friday. They ...
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LULAC Ban on Spanish in sports is disturbing
Two cases of Spanish being banned at New Mexico high school games were examples of a disturbing pattern that needs to be monitored and addressed, perhaps with lawsuits, a civil rights group said ...
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The Troika are back in Madrid today
The troika is back in Madrid to examine the advances made in the stabilisation of the banking system. They want to prove that all the demands requested of Spain after the 100 billion EUR bank rescue have been made. It comes as Brussels has issued another warning saying the risks persist because of the difficult economic situation. The troika is formed by the European Commission, the ...
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Japans Crown Prince to Visit Spain to Mark Bilateral Ties
Tokyo, May 21 (BNA) - Japan's Crown Prince Naruhito will make an official visit to Spain next month, to mark the 400th anniversary of bilateral ties between the two nations, Japan's (NHK World) reported. A Japanese mission was sent to Spain in 1613 from what is now Sendai City, by powerful feudal war lord Date Masamune. Various commemorative events are scheduled in both countries ...
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Mallorca police search the home of the ex President of the region
Police have searched the house belonging to Maria Antnia Munar, ex President of the Consell de Mallorca. The investigators are searching for evidence of the money she could have obtained by the irregular sale of a plot of land in Can Domenge in 2006. The police think the payment of 160,000 EUR was part of a backhander. The court case will be known as Can Domenge and it gets underway on ...
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Debate over whether the minimum driving age should be raised
The DGT traffic authority is considering rising the age when you can start driving. The DGT director, Mara Segu, has assisted at a presentation of a book, the author of which suggests the higher age. The book's title is 'The death of youngsters in traffic accidents', and it is written by Julio Laria del Vals, and edited by the insurance group Foundation Mapfre. Mara ...
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Spain Business Brief Monday May 20 2013
and have to put biofuel in their products, especially diesel. The CNE dismisses that explanation saying that the biofuel tax amounts to no more than 4 cents per litre. One of the board members at Pescanova claims that he sold his shares before the crash, by chance. In fact the words has used in a written statement are 'It was an unfortunate and unpredictable temporal ...
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Spanish show us the way
I have a plan - a plan that I will absolutely, 100 per cent not go through with because I'm too lazy - to open a bar in Australia. My bar will be called Sevilla, and it will be amazing. It will be called Sevilla, obviously, in homage to the Spanish city of the same name, and the bar itself will be similarly reflective of everything that's great about the Andalusian ...
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Mallorcas hopes of staying in the Primera Liga remain alive
Mallorca beat Betis 1-0 at home last night and that score keeps their hopes of remaining in the Primera Liga alive. Mallorca has to win the two remaining games in this season, and it will still depend on other clubs results where they can stay in the Primera Liga. The goal came from the Israeli striker Tomer Hemed and Mallorca lost Toms Pina though injury in the ...
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Investors from abroad who offer jobs in Spain will get automatic residence rights
FOREIGN investors who could potentially create jobs in Spain may be given automatic residence rights and visas in a new move by the central government to encourage multi-national firms to set up branches in the ...
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Melilla border fence stampede sees African migrants slip through the net
A HUMAN 'avalanche' of over 100 sub-Saharan Africans attempted to scale the border fence between Morocco and Spain at around 04.00hrs yesterday morning in order to enter Europe via the 'back ...
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Spain drags its feet on cloud computing
Cloud computing, a new computing model seen by many as a major advancement in information technology, has been catching on in many developed parts of the world due to the significant benefits the new system offers, but in Spain, where experts say it may be most useful, it has failed to find a home.
Spain is traditionally known as a country that does not like to take risks and likes to maintain the status quo, for this reason other new technologies such as 3-D televisions and the like have not caught on either. But, whereas 3-D TV is a service that is marketed as enhancing one’s viewing pleasure and therefore costs more, cloud computing is a new service that offers real-world savings financially. Read more
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