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Gloom and doom news is good news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2015
... the tsunami/nuclear meltdown in Japan. This time the Eurozone crisis threatens to re-start again for who knows what PM Tsipras' resignation and the subsequent snap elections in Greece brings to the just-approved bail out of Athens. But this isn't Europe's ...

86 billion Euros are in the mail, just

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUL 2015
It's a deal! Well, er, not quite. He huffed and he puffed and he beat his chest. In the end, Greek PM Tsipras got his cake... on his face! Tsipras urged the Greeks to do what he say -- vote "Oxi" to the reforms for bail out conditions proposed by its ...

Temporary trial separation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 JUL 2015

Oxi Oxi Oxi

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 JUL 2015
... Others understood it as "do you want Greece to leave the euro?" Oxi. What happens now? What happens now is that PM Alexis Tsipras would go back to the negotiating table - the Greek people's mandate in hand - and ask for better credit terms for Hellas. ...

A Greek offer that cannot be refused

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUL 2015
... the creditors still refuses to deal... and financial markets remain nonchalant, i.e. small contagion at the most? What's Tsipras' Plan B? Whoopsie! Sorry about that for he already has a Plan B - litigate the beejesus out of 'em. "The Athens government ...

Australian market set for further falls

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUN 2015
... Wednesday morning (Australian time) but looks set to miss the payment and default on the debt. Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has called a referendum on whether to accept a bailout and reform package from the country's European Union and IMF creditors ...

Greek crisis drives Australian market down

AAP  |  MONDAY, 29 JUN 2015
... fleeing to safe-haven alternatives such as the US dollar, Japanese yen and gold. On Sunday, Greece prime minister Alexis Tsipras announced that Greek banks would remain shut indefinitely and restrictions would be imposed on cash withdrawals. Talks between ...

Euro - another experiment doomed to fail?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 JUN 2015
"Talk to the hand"! With these words, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras spoiled my weekend. Not because I have money on Greece - I haven't got enough to buy a small bottle of booze - but more because Alexis proved wrong my musings that after all is ...

Graccident averted (yet again)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUN 2015
... soon -- in time for the troika to give 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 ...

The unborn

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2015
... partners and shutout from capital markets, to name a few. These ensuing hardships, could in turn, turn the Greeks against Tsipras and this party. As for 'the institutions', they telling everybody and his dog that they are Grexit ready, "Beyond the near ...
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