Ireland became the second country to seek a bailout euro and the cost to save their banks threatened with a repetition of the Greek debt crisis that destabilized the currency. The euro rose and fell in European bond risk.
A package that Goldman Sachs Group Inc. estimates may total 95 million euros (130 billion) to damp speculation that no Portugal and Spain would need to tap the emergency fund set up by the European Union and the International Monetary Fund after the rescue of Greece.
"The speculative actions against Portugal and Spain are not justified, although they may," said Luxembourg Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker, today in Luxembourg...