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Forex Market Commentaries - Eurozone Banking Crisis

Terminal Velocity, the IMF and Goldman Sachs Do The Math

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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Fuel for Thought

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The United States is the world’s largest producer of ethanol fuel. The U.S. produced 50.0 billion litres of ethanol fuel in 2010. Ethanol fuel is mainly used in the U.S. as an oxygenate to gasoline. In 2009, from all the ethanol fuel consumed in the country, 99% was consumed as ethanol in gasohol. Most U.S.

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The name's Bond, Eurobond

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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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If the European Monetary Union collapses what happens next?

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Amongst the many human characteristics many of us find unpleasant the penchant for saying “I told you so” must rank high. Listening to, or reading commentary from long term opponents of the European Union, who are now basking in their fifteen minutes of revitalised fame as the Economic and Monetary Union of the European Union

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Kick it into the long grass, kick it further, then bury it

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There were respected economists such as Nouriel Roubini who, as early as 2005-2006, spotted the dangers the shadow banking system were potentially causing the credit markets. When the cardiac arrest came in 2007-2008, perpetuated by Bear Sterns and ultimately leading to the collapse of Lehman, economists such as Nouriel did not bask in ill timed

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Forex Market Commentatries - Australian Economy

Australia, why are the 'boom and gloom' merchants hovering and sharpening their knives?

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Throughout the global financial maelstrom which has existed since 2007-2008 Australia has continually bucked the trend. Even the devastating series of floods experienced in Jan this year (2011) appeared to only temporarily knock the vast country from it’s gyroscopic reliance as a major world powerhouse. Australia’s per-capita GDP is higher than that of the UK,

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Economic paradox and the taboo of default

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The USA Congress estimates that the war waged in Afghanistan since ‘911’ has cost nearly $450 billion. That sum is equivalent to handing every Afghan man, woman and child $15,000. That sum is also 10 years of earnings for an average Afghan, according to U.N. estimates. That paradox is replicated in many of the fiscal

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You can fool some of the people some of the time, but you'll never fool the markets all of the time

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Can someone “do the math” as President Obama urged Congress? How do you re create the ten million jobs lost in the USA since 2007 with $447 billion of dollars? How do you pull these rabbits out of hats whilst keeping the debt ceiling under the radar, (which may be breached on Monday), the deficit

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The Market Giveth and the Market Take Away

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Since the Swiss national bank ‘took out’ a series of trading pairs with their determination to in effect ‘peg’ the franc, the CHF pairs have been virtually untradeable. Even from a potential position trade perspective many currency investors and speculators have been left scratching their heads as to where we go next… You’d struggle to

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The Swish of the Swiss

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The new or rather renewed phrase on every bodies lips after yesterday’s stunning bombshell, (delivered with precise laser guidance by the Swiss central bank), is “currency wars”. Previously this phrase had been reserved for the supposed currency disagreements between the USA administration and Chinese officials. The accusation, that the Chinese were manipulating their currency to

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