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Forex Market Commentaries - France and Eurozone Crisis

Will France's Credit Rating be Targeted Irrespective of any Eurozone Solvency Solution?

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 Greece’s impending default which as a continual narrative appears to have disappeared from the […]

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Daily Forex News - Eurozone Bailout Plan

The €2 Trillion Eurozone Bail Out Fund is Born

Between the lines

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 writers obviously, who’ll now have to find someone else

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Daily Forex News - German Sense of Humour

Oh those Germans and Their Wacky Sense of Gallows Humour..

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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 seventh place, was “you’re not as funny

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How Much? – Do You Take cheques?

Market Commentaries

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 next Sunday, a summit at which the 27 EU leaders (in

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The Eurozone Crisis – a Comedy of Errors

Market Commentaries

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 Errors Shakespearean farce. Whilst Trichet is about to exit stage left and take the bow

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When you Reach the End of Your Rope, Tie a Knot in it and Hang On

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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 stated that banks must set aside more assets

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Jean Claude Juncker Gives the Markets Their Drop the Bacon Toasties Moment

Market Commentaries

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 compulsory write-down of 50 to 60 percent of Greek debt may be unavoidable. [quote]I do

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Will Opening Up the Can of Worms Light The Powder Keg?

Market Commentaries

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 event moved passed jaw jaw into war war versus a specific economic malaise, the other remains deeply entrenched

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USA FED Plays Show and Tell

Market Commentaries

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 held informal talks with the largest European lenders. The reports may cover potential liabilities such

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When the Tree Falls, the Monkeys Scatter – 树倒猢狲散

Market Commentaries

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 of Yoda like Chinese overlords, reverently musing their economic pearls of wisdom, in quiet whispers to

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