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RPT-Fitch upgrades Banestos mortgage covered bond rating affirms Santander CH ratings
Fri May 24, 2013 9:27am EDT (Repeat for additional subscribers) May 24 (Reuters) - (The following statement was released by the rating agency) Fitch Ratings has upgraded Banco Espanol de Credito's (Banesto) mortgage covered bonds (Cedulas Hipotecarias or CH) to 'A'/Outlook Negative, removed them from Rating Watch Positive (RWP) and transferred the ratings to Banco Santander SA ...
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The great European Cup teams Barcelona 2009-2011 | Sid Lowe
Lionel Messi, left, and Andrs Iniesta wear their European Cup winner's medals after Barcelona beat Manchester United in 2011. Photograph: Tom Jenkins for the ...
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Travel Postcard 48 hours in Madrid
Madrid is a better-kept secret from the EasyJet crowds is something to celebrate as the city has steered clear of tourist tat and the British pubs of the sun-soaked coasts to hold onto its unique charms that once ...
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Leo Messi has been called up by Argentina despite his injury
Leo Messi has been called up to play for Argentina despite his current injury. Argentina will be playing in the South American elimination games for the World Cup to be held in Brazil in 2014. The games start in June and Messi has been called up although he is suffering from an elongation in the femoral biceps of his right ...
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Spain unemployment hits record high
The total number of unemployed people in Spain has now passed the six million figure, although the rate of the increase has slowed. The figures underline Spain’s struggle to emerge from an economic crisis which began five years ago. A big demonstration in Madrid is being planned against the austerity measures. On Friday, Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy will unveil fiscal and policy ...
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De Gea in Spain Under-21 squad
Manchester United goalkeeper David De Gea has been included in an experienced Spain squad for June's European Under-21 Championship in Israel. The 22-year-old is one of five players named in the 23 who ...
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Spanish Incursions Ineffective and useless warnings
By Leo OliveroOn the day the Convent again confirmed another incursion into British Gibraltar Territorial Waters by the Guardia Civil and where supposedly the RN Gibraltar Squadron again challenged a Spanish state vessel and yet again read out the regulation but ineffective useless warnings - news comes in from the Europe Minister who practically cements the ...
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La Liga Preview Real Sociedad v Real Madrid
Sociedad sit fourth in the table and are locked in a battle with Valencia, who are behind them on goal difference only, for the position, which would earn them entrance into the UEFA Champions League qualification stages next ...
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Petrol and diesel go up in price
Spain's cheaper petrol is due to lesser fiscal pressure than in other member States, despite the IVA hike having caused a sharp rise in prices in ...
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Tax fraud means ordinary residents bills inflated by 2000 euros annually
, the country's fiscal authorities, this varies by region from 2,776 in La Rioja to 1,113 in Extremadura, but means a typical inhabitant in Spain sees 1,910 euros a year more coming out of their income than they would if tax avoidance did not ...
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Gender Differences In The Prescribing Of Analgesics In Spain
Regardless of pain, social class or age, a woman is more likely to be prescribed pain-relieving drugs. A study published in Gaceta Sanitaria (Spanish health scientific journal) affirms that this phenomenon is influenced by socioeconomic inequality between genders in the Autonomous Community in which the patient resides. In 1999, a researcher at the University of Harvard, Ishiro Kawachi, ...
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Leibovitz wins top Spanish award
US photographer Annie Leibovitz has won the prestigious Prince of Asturias award for humanities in Madrid. One of the world's top portrait photographers, the jury hailed her as a "driving force" in photojournalism. Her pictures, which include singer John Lennon naked and actress Demi Moore pregnant, "reflect an era of politics, literature, film, music and sport". ...
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The Government will approve in cabinet today the pre project for the ‘Law for Entrepreneurs’ which is designed to help in the creation of new businesses.
The Government will approve in cabinet today the pre project for the 'Law for Entrepreneurs', which is designed to help in the creation of new businesses. Some of the changes - IVA need not be paid until the factura has been paid and the IVA collected. This comes into force on January 1 2014, for small businesses which have a cash-flow of less than 2 million EUR Investors ...
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Spanish Speaking Parents Learning English Through Unique Program
Springdale, AR - Imagine not being able to understand what people are saying to you when conversing. it's a reality many Spanish speaking parents in Springdale face on a daily basis. However, a unique program in the Springdale School District is helping them to learn ...
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Documents show Britain bugged King Edward VIII paid Franco brother
King Edward VIII before his abdication and paid key Spanish leaders to keep the country neutral. The documents also include a letter describing a long night Prime ...
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Cleverley taking inspiration from Spain
Manchester United midfielder Tom Cleverley believes Spain's blueprint of blending youth with experience is the way forward for England.The Spaniards are aiming for their fourth consecutive major trophy in Brazil next year - with two European Championships and one World Cup so far - something no other nation has ever done.And Cleverley believes emulating Vicente del Bosque's approach of ...
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Barcelona make final Neymar offer
RIO DE JANEIRO, May 23 (Xinhua) -- Barcelona has reportedly made a final offer of 23 million euros to sign Brazil international striker Neymar during the European summer transfer window. The Catalan club's football director Raul Sanllehi returned to Spain on Thursday after a week of negotiations ...
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Activists protest against bullfighting in Spain
Animal rights activists pretending to be bulls stuck through with banderillas lie on the ground covered with mock blood during a protest against bullfighting in Barcelona May 23, 2013. The activists collected signatures to present to the government in protest against a draft law currently in parliament that would protect bullfighting as part of Spain's heritage and national interest. ...
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Program seeks Greensburg-area host families for Spanish students to visit for 4-week summer sojourn
Those interested in serving as a host family can contact Elizabeth Frescura for an application and more information at 724-689-8567 or email her at ...
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Schools look to streamline Spanish Immersion
Growing to its largest size ever next year, the Spanish Immersion program at Hatch Elementary School has been hailed as a successful educational venture, and dozens of parents each year compete to enroll their child in the ...
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Mass sell-off in Spains Bankia hit small investors
MADRID (Reuters) - Small investors in shares of in Spain's nationalised lender Bankia suffered new massive losses on Thursday as the stock plunged by more than 50 percent amid an abnormally high volume of trading which the stock market regulator said would be looked at closely.Tens of thousands of small savers, who were often missold preference shares and hybrid debt in Bankia, swapped ...
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Archaeologists in Mexico discover thousands of ancient cave paintings
Archaeologists are reporting the discovery of nearly 5,000 cave paintings at 11 different sites in Mexico, likely created by early hunter-gatherers. The red, white, black and yellow images discovered near Burgos in eastern central Mexico depict humans engaged in hunting, fishing and gathering, and animals such as deer, lizards and centipedes. The paintings are as yet undated but archaeologists ...
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Madrid move first in race to sign Isco from Malaga
Real Madrid appear to have stolen a march on Manchester City in the race to sign Malaga starlet Isco after the player's father and Malaga executives were snapped driving into Madrid's Estadio Santiago Bernabeu on ...
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Spain Under-21 squad for Euros named
La Rojita will be hoping for a vast improvement to their Under-23 Olympic campaign last summer, when they were dumped out at the group stage featuring many players who have been named for the tournament in Israel in June.Five players have been called up that were included in the victorious Spain side two years ago, including current captain David de Gea, whose performances in the tournament ...
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Spains stock market regulator to probe trading in Bankia shares
MADRID | Thu May 23, 2013 2:54pm EDT MADRID May 23 (Reuters) - Spain's stock market regulator on Thursday said it would investigate if the abnormally high volume of trading in nationalised lender Bankia shares during the day was in breach of market rules. Close to 50 million shares in Bankia changed hands on Thursday, or about 42 times the average daily volume over the last three ...
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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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