Monday 06 Feb 2012
Despite rumours of an imminent agreement on Greek austerity measures, it appears that negotiations are not progressing. The Daily Telegraph reports that Greek prime minister Lucas Papademos may hold conversations with the "troika" (European Central Bank, International Monetary Fund and the European Union) later on Monday in order to discuss the status of negotiations.
Monday 06 Feb 2012
In the sovereign debt market, Germanto periphery bond yield differentials continue to narrow, while Portuguese and Italian debt carries on improving.
Monday 06 Feb 2012
In a report released today from its Beijing office, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) warns that the European debt crisis could cut China’s growth in half.
Monday 06 Feb 2012
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has travelled to Paris this morning to meet with French President Nicolas Sarkozy in the Franco-German Council of Ministers scheduled for 11:30 this morning (10:30 London time).
Monday 06 Feb 2012
The European session is under way with equities showing an average gain of 0.3%. The market is trying to stretch out the gains following Friday’s positive US Employment Report. On the other hand, Greek negotiations with private bondholders is an open-ended issue that never seems to go away. There is reluctance in Greece to accept the new austerity measures requested by the Troika.
Monday 06 Feb 2012
The European Banking Authority (EBA) called last December on some of the Continent´s leading banks to raise capital by €115bn in order to reach a 9% core tier 1 capital ratio, but the regulator may decide to challenge some of their plans to meet that requirement.
Monday 06 Feb 2012
After a meeting last night between the three parties of Greece’s coalition government, Prime Minister Lucas Papademos announced that they had agreed on “basic issues”. However, Greek paper ekathimerini has reported that the two smaller party heads remain opposed to excessive austerity and that talks will continue today.
Monday 06 Feb 2012
A surprisingly strong US jobs report spurred interest in the dollar against the yen on Friday and increased hopes that the US Federal Reserve will refrain from further quantitative easing and raising interest rates until 2014.
Friday 03 Feb 2012
Greek daily Ekathimerini reports that Greek Prime Minister Lucas Papademos has threatened to resign if the country's political parties do not support the new fiscal austerity measures requested by the "troika" (European Union, European Central Bank, and International Monetary Fund).
Friday 03 Feb 2012
European equities and US stock futures went from trading flat to showing average 0.8% gains after a much better than expected Employment Report for January was released in the United States.
Friday 03 Feb 2012
Spain's Finance Minister Luis de Guindos has informed at the Council of Ministries that there will be limits for top management pay at entities that receive public funds. This element of the financial reform was not mentioned in yesterday's announcement.
Friday 03 Feb 2012
International Monetary Fund (IMF) Deputy Managing Director Naoyuki Shinohara said that the world economy may need up to $2 trillion to cover all global economic eventualities.
Friday 03 Feb 2012
As Greece continues talks with private creditors in an attempt to reach a deal on the debt swap, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is busy making moves to increase its emergency funds in order to head off any possible crisis.
Friday 03 Feb 2012
The purchasing managers' index (PMI) for the service sector, as compiled by Markit Economics, has revealed that the Eurozone economic slowdown could have reversed course with the services and manufacturing sector out of recession levels.
Friday 03 Feb 2012
Even though the European Central Bank (ECB) is preparing a second round of “cheap money” for banks to combat the credit crisis, Deutsche Bank is reluctant to accept the offer as it fears losing its reputation.
Friday 03 Feb 2012
The European session is under way with the main equity indices showing an average loss of 0.2% in morning trade ahead of the US Employment Report for January. Negotiations between Greece and private bondholders are expected to conclude over the weekend and the markets cannot wait.
Friday 03 Feb 2012
Spain’s Economic Minister Luis de Guindos announced last night the financial sector reforms to clean up bank balance sheets.
Thursday 02 Feb 2012
The euro fell against the dollar on Thursday as investors drew breath ahead of Friday's US non-farm payrolls data.
Thursday 02 Feb 2012
European Council president Herman Van Rompuy has said that EU leaders will discuss the size of the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) fund at their next summit meeting on March 1st-2nd.
Thursday 02 Feb 2012
In one of the most talked about initial public offerings (IPOs) in stock market history, Facebook Inc. has finally filed its S-1 document to the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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