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Stirred but not shaken

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2015
... depositors and policymakers will have been breached. There are significant problems behind the curtain." And this from Reuters (18 March 2013), about the ordinary Cypriots' reaction to bail-out conditions: "We are hugely disappointed by our so-called ...

A Greek offer that cannot be refused

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUL 2015
... insisted that Greece will remain in the euro and has threatened legal challenges to any action aimed at expelling it." ( Reuters ) However, Plan B involves asking 'the institutions' for euros to pay for the lawyers (and at this level they will be very ...

An ordinary trading day on D-day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUL 2015
... said stuff it... and then blinked. The clock struck twelve... "Greece becomes first advanced economy in arrears to IMF" ( Reuters ) "The International Monetary Fund on Tuesday confirmed Greece had not made its 1.5 billion euro loan repayment to the Fund ...

The Fed is Greek too

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2015
... latest Fedspeak is that a lift-off wouldn't come in September or December but in September AND December. According to Reuters, "Federal Reserve Governor Jerome Powell on Tuesday said the U.S. economy could be ready for a first interest rate hike in September ...

Graccident averted (yet again)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUN 2015
... Greece the euros to enable Athens to repay the troika. Markets are happy because Tsipras batted his eyelids - he blinked. Reuters reports that, "In its proposal, Greece offered to raise the retirement age gradually to 67 and curb early retirement. It ...

Plus ca change

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2015
... then bailed. It seems not too long ago but we've witnessed the ECB increasing its ELA for Greece only last February. As Reuters reported on the 11th of that month: "The ECB moved Greek banks onto ELA last week after it ended a waiver on the quality of ...

Grexit nears, markets cheer

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2015
... 0.65% -- after Friday (minus 0.9%) and Monday's (minus 1.6%) big falls. It created "buying opportunities". Duh! Here's Reuters take: "European shares recovered in late trading and ended higher on Tuesday after hitting a four-month low, with analysts ...

Greece in crisis (again)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUN 2015
... this, from the GreekReporter.com, "Sex Is the Best Antidote for Greece During the Crisis" The word "crisis" is not in Reuters' headline but it gave a good enough depiction of the current state of play in the markets. "Stock markets around the world fell ...

FoFA among top 20 global regulatory nightmares

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2015
... according to a survey of 600 compliance professionals across the world. The 'Cost of compliance 2015' report by Thomson Reuters asked compliance professionals from financial services firms all over the world to name the regulation that poses the greatest ...

Market to open lower

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2015
... Economic Activity are due out. In Sydney, Reserve Bank of Australia deputy governor Philip Lowe gives a speech the Thomson Reuters' Australian Regulatory Summit. And in equities news, the owner of Radio Rentals, Thorn Group releases its full year results ...