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Template of a bail-in?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAR 2013
... whenever a Euro authority's pronouncement is met with market malcontent -- the SOP (standard operating procedure) since Greece back in 2010. All's well again, I guess... or maybe not.

Falling BRICs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAR 2013
... agreement or it'll halt emergency funding of the tiny island nation's banks. Didn't the ECB, the IMF, and the EU also threaten Greece not so long ago? They're forced to renegotiate when Greece gave them the one finger salute. Still on desertions, latest ...

No Grexit, no Cyprexit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAR 2013
... the Middle East, central Asia and even Africa (I just had a look this morning on Google Maps) - but it has now replaced Greece as the weakest link. And don't you ever think for one moment that the Cypriot government doesn't know that. The troika is very ...

Ripples from a pebble

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 MAR 2013
... suggests that hiding savings under the proverbial mattress might be safer than keeping them in banks. Cyprus is smaller than Greece -- It accounts for only 0.2% of total Eurozone GDP and just 2.5% of the region's total population. You know there's trouble ...

The Celtic Tiger gets back its roar

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAR 2013
... expensive for the government to borrow money from investors compared with Italy (4.67%), Spain (4.76%), Portugal (5.92%) and Greece (10.65%). Perhaps austerity isn't all that bad after all. Ireland, after all, is the one country that strictly complied ...

Bernanke pours liquid over Roman burn

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 FEB 2013
... three-year old debt crisis". As I explained yesterday, you and I and Irene have been here before - recall the' revote' in Greece and French President Hollande's non to austerite campaign. They're still implementing austerity programmes, despite intermittent ...

Simple diversification better than 'smart beta'

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 15 FEB 2013
... play out, deciding factors would be Germany's grip on its "purse strings," and the ability for counties like Spain and Greece to make serious structural reform. Commenting on Greece he said: "Everything possible they need to do... they need to do better." ...

On positive contagion, reflation and the great rotation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2013
... -- Johnny Nash, "I Can See Clearly Now" Remember contagion? Sure you do. We all feared it when itsy-bitsy, teenie-weenie Greece threatened to go it alone - never mind the GFC, that was oh so long ago. Fear of a Grexit led to fears of a eurozone that'll ...

US credit rating threatened, buy US bonds

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 JAN 2013
... demand higher interest rates for the risk that sometime, one day, they might not get their money back. This has happened in Greece, Portugal, Ireland, Spain, Italy, etc. But it won't happen in the US. We've seen this too. Remember August 2011? On the ...

Better 2013 outlook risks complacency

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 JAN 2013
... of the world. That very day of the same month, Fitch Managing Director Edward Parker went on record saying that expects Greece to default soon because it would be unable to make good on a March 20 a,-14.5 bond payment. Implicit in these are speculations ...