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Coin toss

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 28 MAY 2012
... the Ger-Gre game of chickens, but the two G's (Germany and Greece) bluffs and blusters are already creating real pain in Spain. Weekend news report that Catalonia is having problems in accessing capital markets with only the very brave buying their debt ...

VIX says nearly shopping time

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 MAY 2012
... face. Come to think of it, if they leave, at least they'll have company. Ireland perhaps? Or Portugal? Or heavens forbid Spain and/or - nay not and/or but and -- Italy. It's the same choice the Eurozone faces. Decide to let Greece stay and it'll have ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAY 2012
... a new four-month US dollar low as worries spiked over the eurozone debt crisis that is plaguing Greece and now circling Spain. The newspaper El Mundo reported depositors had withdrawn one billion euros in the recently nationalised Spanish bank, Bankia ...

Bulls run

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAY 2012
Didn't they already ban the running with the bulls in Spain? Ahh yes, my bad. The Spanish region of Catalonia only banned bullfighting, but approved running with them. For bullfighting kills bulls, running with them only kills... ehem, people. I was ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAY 2012
... have closed with losses well above one per cent as negative news continued from Europe, with Greece's woes deepening and Spain falling into recession. Strong quarterly earnings from Wal-Mart, the world's biggest retailer, were not enough to shatter the ...

Grexit and the games people play

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAY 2012
... ramifications thereafter. Germany fears that if they give in and relax its demands for austerity or else, Ireland, Portugal, Spain, Italy, etc. would ask to have what Greece is having. The Utopian dream of having manageable debt levels in Europe would ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAY 2012
... while the euro hit a four-month low amid growing concern about Greece's eurozone future. Dealers are also keeping an eye on Spain as the country's banking sector comes under huge pressure while Italy saw the ratings of 26 of its lenders downgraded amid ...

Brogden calls for government agreement on FATCA

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAY 2012
... and Australian Treasury officials have been communicating with their US counterparts on the issue. France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom have issued a joint statement with the United States indicating their intention to enter into an intergovernmental ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAY 2012
... 0.21 per cent, to 4,351.9 points. NEW YORK - US stocks have closed firmly in the red as Greece's political stalemate and Spain's banking problems drove new fears about the strength of the eurozone. Meanwhile turmoil at JPMorgan Chase over its $US2 billion ...

The end is not nigh

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 MAY 2012
... and wish it a happy life. No siree! For once it leaves, speculations will migrate to the next in line - Ireland? Portugal? Spain? I think, it'll stop at Spain and then the Eurozone will be no more. So that's my base case Virginia. I was in Europe in ...