More on Iceland and the IMF Bailout

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$1 billion in emergency cash for Iceland

Iceland has transformed itself from a country mostly reliant on fishing for its economic success to a country with an extensive banking industry. Unfortunately, that banking industry has been rather leveraged. And things have come crashing down. The country has become the first sovereign to accept an <a href="item/214555" target="_blank" title="IMF bailout, Iceland bailout, currency trading, emerging market, global financial crisis, emergency cash, economy, banking industry">IMF bailout offer</a> aimed at helping emerging markets get through the global financial crisis. Many people do not think about Iceland as an emerging market, but it is clear that the country is in dire need of help. As part of the strict loan conditions, <a href="http://calculatedrisk.blogspot.com/2008/10/report-imf-to-bailout-iceland.html" target="_blank" title="IMF bailout, Iceland bailout, currency trading, emerging market, global financial crisis, emergency cash, economy, banking industry">Iceland is deleveraging its national banks</a> and preparing to pay Norway, Sweden and Denmark back -- and possibly Japan and Russia as well. 9 application/xml false banking industry currency trading economy emergency cash emerging market global financial crisis Iceland bailout IMF bailout More on Iceland and the IMF Bailout Iceland accepts IMF help http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20081021.RICELAND21/TPStory/Business Currency Trading with Emerging Markets Forex trading on the currency market http://www.gftforex.com/land/index.asp?aid=446 Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092414 Firefox/3.0.3 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 mmarquit 66.182.71.19 false true false false true 128460 blog blogsite/GFTForex/web