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发帖数: 29846 | 1 深陷债务危机的西班牙失业率达到21.3%，另一个深陷债务危机的国家希腊的零售额比
去年下降10%
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2011/apr/29/euro-nations-fal
Greek and Spanish economies falter ahead of expected rise in interest rates
Spanish Job Centers as Spain Meets Deficit Goal
Jobseekers wait for an employment centre to open in Madrid, Spain. Almost
five million workers are unemployed in the country. Photograph: Bloomberg/
Getty
Europe's north-south divide has worsened as figures show Spain and Greece
faltering, with rising unemployment and plummeting retail sales. Meanwhile
the European Central Bank (ECB) is preparing to raise interest rates on the
back of a booming German economy.
Spain's unemployment rate jumped to a European record of 21.3% last month
while Greece's retail sales dropped more than 10% year-on-year as both
countries demonstrated the difficulties of spurring economic growth while
implementing severe public spending cuts.
Almost five million workers are out of work in Spain, according to official
statistics, despite efforts by the socialist-led government to kick-start
the economy and generate jobs. Youth unemployment remains above 40%. The
gloom in Madrid was reinforced by retail sales data for March, which showed
the country's sharpest decline for more than two years.
Despite the problems facing Spain, Greece and other troubled eurozone
nations, the ECB is expected to raise interest rates, possibly as early as
next week, after inflation climbed to 2.8%. The inflation figure, published
by Eurostat, the EU statistics agency, was up from 2.7% in March.
Central bank president Jean-Claude Trichet said this week that policymakers
must quash inflation expectations to avert the risk of wage rises leading to
even higher prices, adding: "We have risks of second-round effects."
Inflation has remained above the ECB's goal of just under 2% largely owing
to higher oil and food prices. Although the bank expects prices to ease next
year, it has been worried enough to start raising rates from record lows,
increasing them by 0.25 percentage points this month to 1.25% in order to
combat inflationary pressures. Economists predict several more such
increases by the year's end.
Trichet is at odds with his counterparts in the US and Britain, who have
consistently argued the recovery needs to be firmly entrenched before
implementing rate rises. A meeting of the Bank of England's monetary policy
committee next week is expected to keep rates on hold at 0.5%, despite
inflation reaching 4% and three members of the nine-strong committee voting
for a rise last time.
Trichet infamously refused to cut interest rates in line with the Federal
Reserve ahead of the banking crisis before being forced to cut radically
following Lehman Brothers' collapse in September 2008.
The EU's broad economic sentiment indicator fell significantly, by 2.3
points to 105.1, for the 27-member European Union, weighed down by a sharp
drop in Britain's services and retail sectors. The index fell more
moderately by 1.1 points to 106.2 for the eurozone, propped up by Germany,
France and the Netherlands, the only countries where the index remains above
its long-term average. | l******a
发帖数: 3803 | 2 这些南欧烂国，都是挂在德意志战车上的野花。
跟着EURO发钞票了，就感觉人均GDP了得。其实
德国的意思是让他们买得起 - 本来本国货币永远买不起的 - 德国货而已。 |
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