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Trusting anything out of Greece or any of the PIIGS nations is a bit difficult these days. With the weekend coming upon us, Greece is set to be the center of the world yet again as the future of...
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When this weekend’s announcement came out of a $125 billion bailout for Spain to prop up its troubled banks, most would have just assumed that this meant the ‘risk-on’ trade was due for...
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So much for any great help from the ECB, France, Germany, and any other entity being able to help the Euro stay together. Rumors have been out that nations have been instructed to make contingency...
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It is never a good thing to see a run on the banks. That is what the fears were recently indicating in Greece. The problem is that Spain is a much larger problem due to excessive lending and the...
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The European Central Bank is said to be freezing assets or considering freezing assets or halting monetary policy operations to some banks in Greece as the Greeks consider an exit of the Euro and as...
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The Europeans need to make a decision soon. It is time to deal with Greece, then the markets can decide how they will deal with the Greek banking system. The baby-sitting and reality TV watching...
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The financial sector was the best performing index out of the S&P 500 during the first quarter. That was when investors were decoupling from the woes of Europe. With European bank shares...
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nationsonline.orgThe U.S. stock markets have by and large been decoupled from the woes of Europe most of this year, as well as the slowing of growth in the key markets of China, India, and in many...
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National Bank of Greece SA (NYSE: NBG) is not just up this Tuesday. It is up huge on a day where most investors would have assumed it would have been down. While many Euro-nation stocks were...
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European banks are taking it right on the chin, or maybe the chin and the nose. The reports of a bad Spanish debt auction managed to push up borrowing costs again and it only makes one wonder what...
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Greece has all but formally defaulted on its debt if you remove the winks and nods from the ‘exceptions to the rules’ of what constitutes a default. Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services has...
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