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Oct 19, 11 •
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As the dust settles with regards to the overall Franco-German solution which will be unveiled this coming weekend (no doubt in painful bite size chunks) attention may still shift to France and the exposure of its banks, specifically in relation to...
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Oct 18, 11 •
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So that’s it, the debate is over, the bunting can be put up, street parties can be held in every street throughout Europe as ‘D’ day is with us, the bail out fund lives and we can all breathe a little easier. Other than Bloomberg copy...
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Oct 17, 11 •
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Germans struggle to make us laugh and are, according to a poll conducted in summer, the least funny nation in the world. Americans can make us laugh like drains coming top of a poll to find the funniest of 15 nationalities. The verdict on the UK, lagging in...
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Oct 17, 11 •
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Comments Off on How Much? – Do You Take cheques?
How Much? ¿Cuánto Cuesta? Do You Take cheques? ¿Toméis Los Cheques What can only be described as weary cynicism appears to have enveloped both the markets and market opinion. The next in a long drawn out series of macro economic meetings is scheduled for...
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Oct 14, 11 •
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Despite the circuitous nature of the current macro economic events it’s becoming extremely difficult to keep up with the shape shifting events. For example, it’s not uncommon for commentators get confused as to who does what in this Comedy Of...
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Oct 12, 11 •
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Comments Off on When you Reach the End of Your Rope, Tie a Knot in it and Hang On
When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on – Thomas Jefferson The president of the European Commission, Jose Manuel Barroso, set out a plan on Wednesday designed to finally bring to an end the eurozone debt crisis. Mr Barroso...
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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 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...
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Sep 20, 11 •
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Chinese proverbs, you could spend an age reading the short stanzas whilst contemplating the meaning and being humbled by the wisdom of an ancient culture that has fashioned, reduced and compartmentalised certain life events into short dynamic phrases. Visions...