21.05.2011 - 17:51 [ Business Week ]

Dollar strengthens as investors eye Greece, Spain

Spain is holding regional elections this weekend. Investors are afraid that the new politicians expected to take office will say that the country is even more deeply in debt than the current government had forecast, said Brown Brothers Harriman analyst Marc Chandler. That raises the possibility that Spain would need to seek a bailout, following the path of Greece, Ireland and Portugal.