Greek Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos is desperately pressing the domestic political leaders to yield to the conditions for a bailout, stating that a refusal could cause the country’s exit from the euro. The Greek parliament is due to vote on the measures this weekend. Euro region ministers are set to meet again on Feb. 15. […]
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So what did we expect as the news finally broke that a deal had been reached by the Greek government on the austerity measures? Fireworks, street parties, Bacchus debauchery on the streets of Athens? Or the weary resignation that “resistance is useless” and by any fair method or foul it was inevitable that Greece would
The ECB head Mario Draghi will be fielding questions in Frankfurt today, whilst the Italian PM Mario Monti will be visiting the US. Not sure if Monti will be visiting Princess Peach, or if Draghi will have Yoshi and Toad for company, or if Bowser will spoil the fun at Draghi’s question time, no doubt
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What Can A Forex Trading Mentor Teach You That You Don’t Already Know, Or Can’t Learn Very Quickly? There’s been a significant movement on the internet lately, paid mentorship programmes for FX traders are being heavily promoted. I have my suspicions that it’s followed a pattern; high influx of traders entering the market from 2008-2009
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Is there a beer index? If so find out where it is and go long, very long. No stop loss required as there’ll never be a spike, support will never be tested.. It’s not often that you search for an article title and it comes to you. Whilst searching ‘the wires’ for news items to
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The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) provides financial assistance for food purchasing to low and no income people and families living in the U.S. It is a federal aid program administered by the Food and Nutrition Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, but benefits are distributed by the individual U.S. states. It is historically
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“Who really cares where price is, as long as price gets somewhere..” What’s that phrase, “only monkeys pick bottoms”? I’m not sure what the equivalent is for “picking tops” but often monkeys are seen grooming each other in their groups by picking out insects in each others head hair. I mean no offence to monkeys,
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Another Day, Another Deadline – Greece Set For 1 pm (GMT) Crucial Meeting One deadline after another has come and gone over recent weeks. The leaders of the three parties in the coalition government of Prime Minister Lucas Papademos postponed on Tuesday what was billed as a crunch meeting because of “missing paperwork”. Papademos, the
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It’s extremely difficult to sum up what’s happened recently without being open mouthed. There comes a time when you begin to run out of adverbs and adjectives to either understand or explain the overall global economic situation. On the day when Greece’s one year bond yield reaches 528% the ASE, the Athens Stock Exchange index,
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I enjoy watching most sport but I’ve never quite got American Football. However, I do watch the Superbowl from time to time and whilst penning and refining various FXCC articles, mail outs and reports in the early hours of Monday morning I had it on. To be honest the game was fascinating and the three
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