It’s difficult to know who the phrase “pouring money down the drain” is more appropriate for, the County officials who took on the debt, or the bond holders? What’s fascinating is just how deep and dirty the municipal bond market in the USA has become over recent years. The process is simple, if an area […]
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Stocks retraced their earlier gains on Wall Street on Tuesday closing 1.33% up on the day having spent the majority of the day up circa 200 points or 2%. Despite the waves of optimism due to the various solutions floated by the official bodies in Euroland the question of Greece once again reared its head
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“Buy on the rumour sell on the news” is a tried and tested market trading approach, traders often make trading decisions based on what they calculate may happen due to any given economic report or event (the rumour). Once the event passes or the report is released (the news), they then ‘dump’ their positions and
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The “rabbit hole” is an accepted metaphor for the conceptual path which leads to the true nature of reality. Infinitesimally deep and complex, venturing too far down is probably not too clever an idea, you have to wonder if beginning to expose just how deep the global economies’ rabbit hole is burrowed will now irreversibly
[quote]A day will come when all nations on our continent will form a European brotherhood. A day will come when we shall see the United States of America and the United States of Europe, face to face, reaching out for each other across the seas. – Victor Hugo 1848.[/quote] In December 1996, the designs for
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The 2011 film Contagion has been a relative hit with USA movie-goers. On the independent film peer review site rottentomatoes.com it's rated highly. There was a French film in 2009 also called contagion and the suspicion is that in the very best 'Hollywood tradition' the film industrial complex of America has taken a great foreign
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Germany’s ten biggest banks need €127 billion euros of additional capital the German newspaper Frankfurt Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung reported over the weekend, citing a study by economic research institute DIW. The paper quoted Dorothea Schaefer, a respected research director for financial markets at DIW, who predicts that the ratio of banks’ equity capital to balance sheet
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The European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso has a plan and it’s backed by a string of high profile figures as a ‘rescue plan’ for the debt crisis Euroland and moreover the major European banks face. The plan is to issue “eurobonds” as a crude method to ‘mop up’ all the pain and share the
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