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thinkstockIt is really hard to get excited about anything in Greece and the peripheral nations. That has been the mantra for years now, even before the U.S. recession. But maybe all bad things can...
CIA World FactbookThe Turkish Central Bank is not exactly the most widely followed central bank in the world. That may be true 364 days of this year, but on Tuesday all eyes of emerging market...
thinkstockIt seems hard to believe after years of decline, but bad news out of Greece has changed to “less-bad” and then to almost good news. We previously saw that the Greek budget may have a...
ThinkstockStocks have had gains for eight weeks now and the stock market keeps challenging all-time highs. It is time for investors to start positioning their assets and portfolios for 2014. 24/7...
thinkstockShares of National Bank of Greece S.A. (NYSE: NBG) are chugging higher on Thursday. There has not been any direct news out of the company to account for the gain, but the national news in...
ThinkstockThe U.S. Federal Reserve may have slashed the Fed funds rate as low as humanly possible. After all, how can you beat zero percent (actually targeted 0.00% to 0.25%)? The answer is with...
thinkstockGreece and its banks may have found a friend in billionaire investor John Paulson. A report from Reuters has said that Paulson now favors the recapitalized banking sector as a bet on...
CIA World FactbookTurkey is supposed to be one of the great emerging markets. Unfortunately, its growth has been derailed, its nation was hit hard by protests and unrest over the summer, and now it...
ThinkstockWhich way the future of Greece goes is still up in the air. If you read enough of the financial and political news coming out of and about the European Union and the nations making up the...
thinkstockStandard & Poor’s has decided that the corporate credit ratings for the National Bank of Greece S.A. (NYSE: NBG) are affirmed at “CCC/C.” What remains a caution is that the...
July 8, 2013: U.S. equity markets opened higher this morning following a long holiday weekend interrupted by Friday’s report on jobs and the unemployment rate. In Europe, the troika of the EC, the...
thinkstockThe ADR shares of National Bank of Greece SA (NYSE: NBG) are having yet another rough day. News that the nation of Greece may not receive bailout funds is not helping matters for the...
June 27, 2013: U.S. equity markets opened higher this morning after the reports on new U.S. jobless claims and personal income and a blizzard of data from Europe. Eurozone consumer confidence is...
ThinkstockJust last week that we showed how the Democratic Left party in Greece was withdrawing from the current government coalition. While this alone might not have forced a vote of confidence to...
ThinkstockThis week has been a disaster for emerging markets, and now it appears as though Greece is going to come back up as a key spot of financial turmoil. The question is whether anyone will care...