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CME Lowers Energy & Metals Margin Trading Requirements (CME, GLD, USO, SLV, JJC)

Posted: February 9, 2012 at 5:37 pm

CME Group Inc. (NYSE: CME) is going to make it cheaper for traders to trade energy and metals futures, something which could make it easier and cheaper for traders, speculators, ...
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Greek Debt & Austerity Deal, Cheered With a Thud (NBG, GREK, FXE, ALU, DB, STD)

Posted: February 9, 2012 at 9:06 am

Reports are out that parties in Greece have finally agreed to a debt and austerity deal that will allow it to get its bailout funding and to remain part of ...
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Who Gets to Settle the Greek Problem?

Posted: February 9, 2012 at 6:39 am

Evangelos Venizelos, the rotund finance minister of Greece, has gone to Brussels to parlay with eurozone officials about how his country can break the deadlock that threatens to cause a default next ...
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A Setback for Germany’s Export Machine

Posted: February 8, 2012 at 6:45 am

It turns out that the global manufacturing export slowdown is not restricted to China. The German Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reports that the country’s exporters had a difficult December: Domestic ...
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Greece’s 15,000 Public Sector Layoffs Would Be 450,000 in the U.S.

Posted: February 7, 2012 at 6:50 am

The Greek ruling coalition has said it will cut 15,000 government workers as an austerity sacrifice to the European Commission, European Central Bank and International Monetary Fund. The “troika,” with ...
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A Tie Between the Fates of Greece and China

Posted: February 6, 2012 at 6:46 am

Greece is on the “razor’s edge” of default, its financial minister Evangelos Venizelos said. The International Monetary Fund said China’s GDP growth could collapse if the eurozone’s troubles increase. The IMF reported its ...
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Greece Perilously Close To Default

Posted: February 5, 2012 at 8:09 am

Greece is within a day of a catastrophic default the ripple effects of which could put immense pressure on other troubled eurozone nations, particularly Portugal. The government has been told by its ...
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Fed Fund Futures Calling For December Rate Hike… In 2013

Posted: February 3, 2012 at 10:54 am

Fed Funds Futures are not widely used by Joe Public, and much of the public may not even understand or know what these are.  The layman explanation is that they ...
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China’s Play to Help Europe

Posted: February 3, 2012 at 7:00 am

During German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s visit to China, the prime minister of the People’s Republic, Wen Jiabao, said his country might invest money in the European Financial Stability Facility and ...
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An Unexpected Recession Among Europe’s Stronger Economies

Posted: February 3, 2012 at 6:59 am

The head of Dow Chemical (NYSE: DOW) says Germany and France are in recession. CEO Andrew Liveris is not an economist, but the massive company he runs does do business all ...
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Baltic Dry: The Death Of An Index (SEA, DRYS, SFL, NAT)

Posted: February 2, 2012 at 1:20 pm

Just what does a cratering Baltic Dry Index mean?  Frankly, it looks and acts as though it is signaling the next recession is here already rather than signaling that it ...
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The IMF vs. Germany

Posted: February 2, 2012 at 6:47 am

The deal to save Greece from default has come down to a battle of wills between Germany and the International Monetary Fund. It was always likely this would happen, but ...
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Can New CFO & Split Structure Save The Bank of Ireland? (IRE)

Posted: February 1, 2012 at 11:52 am

The Bank of Ireland (NYSE: IRE) may have been a dead stock (or ADR) by most counts.  The recapitalization and dilution process here has been almost as uncanny as the bailouts ...
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A Mexican Stand-Off for Greece

Posted: January 30, 2012 at 6:51 am

German Economy Minister Philipp Roesler wants an outside institution to control Greece’s budget. He claims the Greeks have proven they cannot enforce their own austerity plans. Evangelos Venizelos, the Finance Minister ...
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Fitch Joins E.U. Downgrade Waves (EWK, IRE, EIRL, IRL, EWI, TI, EWP, STD)

Posted: January 27, 2012 at 1:30 pm

Fitch has joined in on the European sovereign credit rating downgrades.  First it was S&P, but we might argue that this should have mostly been factored in already.  Is it ...
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