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Current European Debt Yields: Punitive

Germany: 3.35%
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Greece: 14.07%
Portugal: 9.34%
Ireland: 9.85%
Spain: 5.51%- up .098

10 year bond yields

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European Shares Lower; S&P Futures Lower

It’s risk off in Europe with all major indices lower by about 0.5%. However, Switzerland is down more than 1%.

S&P futs are down 5.

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China Raises Bank Reserves for a 4th Time

“China raised banks’ required reserves on Sunday for the fourth time this year, extending the fight against excessive liquidity and stubbornly high inflation in the world’s second-largest economy.

The reserve rate rise, which followed an increase in benchmark bank interest rates on April 5, was the seventh since China stepped up efforts against inflation in October and underscored the government’s determination to keep the economy on an even keel.”

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New Potential Worry Developing With Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Plant

This is now a third story I have found on this nuclear power plant .

During the earthquake in 2007 there was damage to this plant.

The post I put out two weeks ago; which unfortunately came from a blog…so not verifiable, was potentially backed by another story where fish had a high radiation content caught off this area of coastline. A fishy story at that,  since Fukushima is on the other side of the Island.

Now you have this minor mention of potential trouble with this plant.

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This Fukushima report is a week old, but very informative:

[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzWJgbZjWw8 450 300]

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