Bondholders are apparently at the limits of what losses they could accept in a Greek debt swap. Athens needs a deal on the plan, meant to cut 100 billion euros from its debt of over 350 billion, in order to stem a potential default with the major debt redemption looming in March. Greece and its […]
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Morgan Stanley’s focus on cost cutting, combined with its strong performance in equity trading, helped the Wall Street bank post better-than-expected results. But it’s not for it’s better than average results that the bank deserves faint praise, it’s for the accompanying announcement, in relation to bonus cutting, that the bank deserves congratulations…however muted.. Responding to
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Whilst it’s not Fitch, Moody’s or Standard & Poor’s Sean Egan of Egan-Jones is a highly respected analyst and let’s not forget this was the agency that stole a march on S&P by downgrading the USA credit rating whilst S&P executives were busy naval gazing. The company also sounded the alarm bell on Lehman Brothers,
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Many of us within the investment and trading community have scratched our collective heads when considering just how gravity defying the equities market has been over the past two years. Due to the paradigm shift and mixed phenomena of bailouts, rescues and quantitative easing (underscored by a unified zirp policy adopted by most leading economies)
The EFSF, The European Financial Stability Facility, finally lost its top credit rating with Standard & Poor’s after the rating company downgraded France and Austria amongst several other countries on Friday. After European markets closed today S&P cut the rating of the European Financial Stability Facility, the euro-region bailout fund, to AA+ from AAA. S&P
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The habit of the rating agencies is to announce serious downgrade information on the last trading day of the week, more often than not they’ll encourage the market to adjust to the imminent news (by way of rumors and or leaks) and then deliver the blow once the markets have closed, presumably this is so supposed ‘cool
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Before being railroaded and bullied into empty tub thumping rhetoric it might have been worth the European Union mandarins and apparatchiks pulling up an oil supply chart and spotting that cutting off supply from your second largest supplier isn’t the brightest of ideas. Particularly if that biggest supplier has a) pathological habits of over estimating
Chancellor George Osborne has suggested that Britain could increase its payments to the International Monetary Fund in order to help heal Europe’s debt crisis. Osborne told the UK parliament on Wednesday that he could be swayed by a “well-argued” case, although funds could not be pumped straight into the eurozone, presumably the funds would be
It’s been a quiet few weeks with regards to the Eurozone crisis, since mid December the news hasn’t been anywhere near as dynamic or spectacular. Greece, Italy, France, AAA ratings, disorderly break up..all these subjects that were top of the news agenda have slipped down the rolling news reel order. However, if I could be
“Greek Tragedy”, “It’s All Greek To Me”, The Lame Greek ‘One-Liners’ Are On The Way Back Read More »
So where do you see the euro ending 2012 and beginning 2013? Well here’s a surprise, despite all the doom mongering by the mainstream media when Bloomberg gathered up the predictions by the globe’s leading forecasters none of them predicted that the euro will disappear in a puff of value, at least not versus the
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