Spain’s Banks Take 326.4 Billion Euros From ECB

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In another sign of the trouble that has nearly brought down the Spanish bank system, the countries banks borrowed 326.4 billion euros from the ECB last month, the Bank of Spain reported. Spain is due to get a 125 billion euro bailout from its neighbors and the IMF. Most of this money will then be loaned to its banks.

This will leave the government in need of a bailout of its own, probably. The national unemployment rate and a new recession makes that case more and more likely. The ECB borrowing is another sign that recent downgrades of Spain’s sovereign paper may not capture how much trouble the country is really in.

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Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

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A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

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McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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