Category Archives: Euro

Real Pain in the Eurozone

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France’s Campaign Chonicles

Interesting analysis of the French elections with the first round slated for next month and the run-off in May.  Here are the latest polls via Reuters, A survey by TNS-Sofres/Sopra group found that Sarkozy had pulled ahead in voting intentions … Continue reading

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Stratfor: Threats to Europe’s Austerity Coalition

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Euro Fracture: Cradle of Civilization Headed for Revolution?

Interesting interview with British MEP, Paul Nuttal.    He worries about political instability spreading in the Eurozone and raises the notion of a harder euro for the northern countries. We believe the best case, at the end of the day,  … Continue reading

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Greece CDS Exposure

Nice chart from Ambrose Evans-Pritchard’s Telegraph piece.   One would expect a relatively small first order effect if Greek CDS’ are triggered.   The second order effects,  such as contagion and the ding to market confidence are much more difficult to quantify … Continue reading

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S&P500: Next Stop 50-day?

We posted last week that the S&P500 could go to 1340 and then we’d reconsider our market view.  Interestingly,  today’s low on the cash S&P500 was 1340.03. We also had doubts there were enough sellers to take equities down.   It … Continue reading

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EU leaders seek austerity growth balance

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Euro banks tap LTRO2

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Quote of the Day: The New Americans of Europe

Here’s the pretext for our QOTD, The German parliament is set to approve a new multibillion euro bailout package for Greece on Monday, but instead of thanks, southern Europeans are expressing their dislike of us. Germans will have to get … Continue reading

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G20: Jerry Maguire, The Sequel

Wow!   We didn’t realize Tim Geithner and the G20 could move like that.  If you look hard and long enough,  Tom Cruise does kind of resemble Angela Merkel, no? (click here if video is not observable)

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