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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2015
... regulation, with Athens on the agenda amid stubborn fears of a Greek eurozone exit. German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble has invited his counterparts and their central bank chiefs from Britain, Canada, France, Italy, Japan and the United States ...

The martyrdom of Greece

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 FEB 2012
... measures, the ultimate effect will be the same. Misery for the Greeks. Not so according to German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble. "It is not about torturing the Greeks" but to give them an "adequate life". Talk to the hand Wolfgang. Greece is no ...

Bankruptcy could be bliss

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 FEB 2012
... be wary for Greece has consistently failed to deliver on its promises. According to German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble, Greece's new proposal would lower its debt to only 135% of GDP by 2020, far above the 120% expected as pre-condition for this ...

More of the same

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 NOV 2011
... new day, same trepidation, same fear over contagion. This was (again) underscored by German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble warning (again) that the crisis is beginning to take its toll on the real economy and urged vigilance to prevent that word ...

Dream on

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 OCT 2011
... resolved and dealt with by next Monday cannot be fulfilled." Dream on. With these words, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble crushed financial market optimism that everything will be smooth sailing by this time next week. And it wasn't only him ...

Rewarding wishful thinking

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 OCT 2011
... get-together in Luxembourg Tuesday without reaching a conclusion. After the meeting, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said that not all countries had been prepared to present their national backstops against banking crises, adding that the ...

China surprise

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 APR 2011
... none other than the PIGIS (Portugal, Ireland, Greece, Italy, Spain). The trigger? Germany's Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble told his country's Die Welt newspaper that Greece might need to renegotiate its debt if an audit, to be held in June, reveals ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 15 APR 2011
... data had been much more encouraging. Greek money market rates jumped sharply after German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble suggested that Athens might have to restructure its debt, meaning investors would lose out and touching a sensitive nerve. In ...

Amigos para siempre

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 NOV 2010
... operations to stem the inflow of foreign portfolio investment. Then there's Germany whose Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble called the Fed move "clueless". "I have great doubts about whether it makes sense to pump unlimited amounts of money into the ...
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