by Calculated Risk on 5/21/2010 08:41:00 AM
Friday, May 21, 2010
Bundestag Approves Bailout, possible Strike in Spain
From the Financial Times: Bundestag backs eurozone rescue
Germany’s lower house of parliament on Friday narrowly approved Berlin’s contribution to the European Union’s €750bn package of loan guarantees ...The upper house, the Bundesrat, is expected to vote today and passage is expected.
From Reuters: Spain to 'probably' call general strike-report
Spain's largest workers union Comisiones Obreras could call a general strike to protest the government's austerity measures, its head Ignacio Fernandez Toxo said on Friday ...Sounds like just a one day strike.
The futures are off this morning ... but bouncing around.