Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Europe announces vast contingency fund, racing to contain crisis

Wall Street Journal
May 10, 2010

European finance ministers threw a trillion-dollar protective wall around the euro on Sunday and the European Central Bank said it would begin buying government bonds if necessary as officials on the continent struggled to contain the spread of a government debt crisis that began in Greece.

After a discussion that ran into the early morning Monday, the finance ministers, the ECB and the International Monetary Fund took separate steps meant to stanch a loss of confidence in European governments that had put the world's nascent economic recovery at risk.

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