This week is set to be eventful, as markets weigh in on the EU’s "Spailout" and key economic data emerges from around the world, writes Matt Quigley.
Finance ministers have agreed to lend Spain up to 100-billion to shore up its teetering banks.
No European side has ever won three successive tournaments, but Vicente del Bosque’s team look well-equipped to be the first.
A former senior executive at Bankia is to receive a 14-million payoff in a move that will cause controversy beyond the country’s borders.
The Spanish bank crisis has led to investors running to safe havens again, worsening rand volatility, writes Lisa Steyn.
While Euro angst vies for the spotlight with US jobs data, bad news from mining and manufacturing is expected on the home front, writes Matt Quigley.
As unemployment soars, financial institutions face rising bad debt and the need for a European Union rescue.
Everybody knows that if South Africa and Spain have one thing in common, it is an abundance of sun. But what about unemployment?
This week will bring key data on US jobs and manufacturing figures from around the world. With few exceptions, economists are not optimistic.
Karim Benzema has struck a brace in a 3-0 win over Sevilla on Sunday as Real Madrid edged closer to their first Spanish league title in four years.
Spain’s economic woes has deepened alarmingly as the government revealed that unemployment rose to nearly 25%.
Pep Guardiola’s assistant Tito Vilanova is to take over as Barcelona coach next season after Guardiola announced he would step down.
Senior officials in Spain have believed that some areas will have no option but to turn to the central government for bailouts.
Spanish King Juan Carlos, after his release from hospital, apologised for his an African elephant hunting trip, which provoked a scandal at home.
Fears are mounting Spain might be headed for a bailout, while eyes will also be on a series of corporate earnings reports and data releases elsewhere.
Spain’s King Juan Carlos has come under fire for going on a hunting trip to Botswana while Spaniards continue to grapple with an economic crisis.
As Spain tries to rein in its budget deficit, the country’s towns and regions have become riches-to-rags stories due to years of overspending.
Brussels has condemned Spain for planning to go against European Commission rules and not focus on its targets.
Spain might face uphill battles to meet the demands of supermarket chains and European regulations, which do not apply to North African grower.
F1 team Marussia hired Maria de Villota as a test driver, providing the sport with a full-time female pilot for the first time since the 1990s.
The world’s two richest clubs, Real Madrid and Barcelona, take up their lonely duel for the title against the league’s much poorer sides.
Spaniards turned out en masse at demonstrations across their country on Sunday, protesting against reforms to the labour market.
The art world has mourned the death of painter and sculptor Antoni Tapies, whom some referred to as "one of the great reformers of 20th century art".
Developments in Spain and Portugal demand urgent attention.
The South African women’s hockey team drew 1-1 with Spain in Randburg to clinch the five-match Investec international series 2-1.
A downgrade because of rampant expenditure will have severe fiscal implications for SA.
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/ 12 January 2012
Spain has begun to build its first homosexual retirement residence away from the prejudices which remain since decades of dictatorship.
A lack of confidence among investors in the prospects for the eurozone has pushed the value of the euro down against the US dollar and the yen.
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/ 27 December 2011
Every week brought more dire forecasts in the battle to save Europe’s economic club but 2012 will be its worst year yet.
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/ 21 December 2011
Positive sentiment is being driven by a new measure by the ECB to pump liquidity into the markets, analysts say.
Spain’s conservative Popular Party has gained its biggest election win ever from voters desperate to end the soaring unemployment in the country.
Spain’s right storms towards a landslide win in Sunday elections, carried by popular anger over an economic slump.