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Problems, problems, problems

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 AUG 2013
... support package" that will come with no attached austerity pre-conditions. Yeah right!A Let's see you sell that to Frau Merkel. To round out our tour of troubles, there's also one that could potentially be troublesome happening in Japan. The Japanese ...

William Blair targets super fund investors with 'game theory'

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 28 MAY 2013
... in the eurozone game are the European Central Bank, Germany, France, Italy, Greece and Spain. Up until recently Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy represented the austerity coalition, pursuing their own interests in trying to convince the periphery that ...

Don't be disappointed if the ECB disappoints

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 30 APR 2013
... or 50 bips or 75 bips do if those bips are quarantined at the border between the north and the south? German Chancellor Merkel says it best, "The ECB is obviously in a difficult position...For Germany, it would actually have to raise rates slightly at ...

So stupid it could actually make money

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAR 2013
... deposits - 40% -- before they cough up a,-3 billion to aid Cyprus. According to Bloomberg, deputy parliamentary leader of Merkel's Christian Democratic Union party, Michael Fuchs, asked in an interview with BBC Radio 4, "Why should Germans bail out these ...

Fear is here

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 FEB 2013
... television. "Based on these projections, more than half of Italians expressed a vote against austerity, against the euro, against Merkel." And this: "A hung parliament would be a guarantee of paralysis both in terms of economic program and structural ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 22 OCT 2012
... cent to 7,913.40 points on a lack of any clear breakthrough at a summit in Brussels and after German Chancellor Angela Merkel voiced stiff opposition to using new eurozone rescue funds to replenish the coffers of troubled Spanish banks. The euro eased ...

It's raining, it's pouring good news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 OCT 2012
... Must be why the Germans are becoming more benevolent towards Spain. Bloomberg reports that two officials in Chancellor Merkel's party "said the country is open to Spain seeking a precautionary credit line". That "precautionary credit line" is another ...

Two down, one to go

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 SEP 2012
... shoulders and big feet? The point is this too shall be resolved when we cross that bridge. Recall German Chancellor Angela Merkel's words less than three months ago, "Keine Euro-Bonds, solange ich lebe" (no euro bonds, while I am alive") printed by Der ...

Bond boom or bust?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 SEP 2012
... we can tell because we're hearing the same rhetoric from the usual suspects being replayed on cyberspace. There's Frau Merkel declaring "solidarity" with Europe but problem countries must pay the price - severe austerity measures - for that solidarity. ...

Limboland

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 AUG 2012