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Oct 13, 11 •
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Perhaps the USA senate needs to look up the meaning of the word “diktat” before attempting to issue the same versus one of its major trading partners. A diktat is a harsh penalty or settlement imposed upon a defeated party by the victor, or a...
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Oct 12, 11 •
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The US senate passed legislation yesterday to allow companies to seek compensation due to the USA administration’s perception that the weak Yuan is hurting the USA’s ability to export. Imported Chinese goods are also apparently costing too much...
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Oct 11, 11 •
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Comments Off on Jean Claude Juncker Gives the Markets Their Drop the Bacon Toasties Moment
What a spoilsport, just when the market had begun to buy the narrative from the Merkozy conjoinment along comes the chairman of euro zone finance ministers, Jean-Claude Juncker stating, (late in the evening during an Austrian television interview), that a...
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Oct 10, 11 •
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Apologies for mixing up two metaphors in the title, I did consider three, (Pandora’s box could have easily been slipped in) but two distinct ‘events’ over recent days have lit the touch paper..oops..there’s the third metaphor. One...
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Oct 7, 11 •
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Comments Off on Moody's Downgrade UK Banks the Day After QE is Announced
Ahead of the G20 summit scheduled for November EU ministers and policy makers will come under increasing pressure to create and ultimately ratify an agreement in relation to the direction and shape the overall Eurozone rescue package will take. Simon Maughan,...
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Oct 6, 11 •
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Comments Off on No Tequila Sunrise for Those who Bet on the Peso versus the Dollar
Stocks have risen for a second day on Thursday as anticipation has grown that policymakers will finally take steps to support European banks under threat from the impact of a possible Greek default. German Chancellor Angela Merkel stated on Wednesday that...
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Oct 5, 11 •
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What would be the biggest news in relation to the ongoing Eurozone crisis? We’re not talking Greece default here, or the troika finally sending white smoke up the chimney from their secretive Vatican like refuge as they play out their version of the...
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Oct 5, 11 •
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When the main markets began to ‘correct’ in late July – early August many sages and sock puppets were immediately let loose to ‘astroturf’ the airwaves, forums and usual suspect news broadcasts in order to soothe the masses with...
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Oct 4, 11 •
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As the USA gets prepared to bite the hand that feeds you have to wonder if they’ve really thought this through, or is this latest invented enemy simply a xenophobic ill timed swipe at anything ‘anti American’? When your country’s...
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Oct 3, 11 •
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Comments Off on USA FED Plays Show and Tell
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York will begin to question foreign banks for more thorough reports on their liquidity (and indirectly their solvency) as the U.S. steps up its risk monitoring of Europe’s sovereign debt crisis. Regulators have apparently...