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The Last Countries Left With Triple-A Rating

Posted: February 16, 2011 at 4:38 am

Ratings agencies missed the meltdown in the housing market and the rising debt tide that swept over European capitals.  We wanted to see if they are awarding Triple-A ratings to ...
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Two-Year Treasury Yields Move Toward Zero, A Chance For More Stimulus

Posted: July 7, 2010 at 5:04 am

What is a safe haven investment worth? The yield on two-year notes has dropped to near .6%. The drop in global stock markets, and fear of a rise in the ...
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Media Digest 7/2/2010

Posted: July 2, 2010 at 4:02 am

Reuters:   Maria Cantwell (D-WA) will support the Senate financial reform bill, giving Democrats a boost. Reuters:   Automakers had a setback in June, an indication that the industry is facing slow ...
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The Odd German Theory: Growth And Austerity Go Together

Posted: June 24, 2010 at 6:01 am

Ahead of the G20 meeting in Toronto and on the heels of a series of austerity programs announced by countries throughout Europe, Germany has argued that its austerity program goes ...
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German Confidence Drops As It Sweats The EU Recovery

Posted: June 16, 2010 at 6:17 am

Germany's economy, the fourth largest in the world, is supposed to carry it through the Eurozone disaster. That is what the Germans thought. But the confidence has become a fascade. ...
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Germany’s Merkel Tests Europe’s Financial Resolve, Again

Posted: June 10, 2010 at 4:42 am

Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel seems keen on asserting her nation's political and financial power in the EU, or she wants to see the region's $1 trillion rescue package fail. In ...
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Germans Citizens Make Another Contribution To Eurozone

Posted: June 7, 2010 at 1:52 pm

German taxpayers have already given a great deal to their Eurozone partners by funding $50 billion of the region's nearly $1 trillion financial security package. The massive rescue facility has ...
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Are $50 Billion In Budget Cuts By EU Members Too Little?

Posted: May 25, 2010 at 4:46 am

Many EU nations have disclosed plans for budget cuts as part of the trend toward austerity that has swept the region. The frugality is understandable. In the eyes of the ...
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Signs Of The Apocalype: Thailand Stock Exchange On Fire As Euro Collapses

Posted: May 19, 2010 at 6:17 am

Protesters in Thailand, retreating from the army, have set the stock exchange on fire. The euro is about to break below $1.21 after Angela Merkel of Germany set new short ...
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Merkel Protests Too Much: Are German Banks Short The Euro?

Posted: May 19, 2010 at 6:00 am

"A failure of the euro means a failure of Europe," German Chancellor Angela Merkel said today, according to Dow Jones. This is after she banned naked shorting in some financial ...
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Germany’s Despair

Posted: May 18, 2010 at 6:19 am

The Center for European Economic Research said its May economic expectations index for Germany fell to 45.8 from 53.0 in April. Coupled with that the German 10-year government bonds dropped. The DAX suffers ...
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Very Little For Germany In A United Europe

Posted: May 12, 2010 at 5:59 am

The head of the IMF, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, has encouraged European nations to join forces more closely by aligning their economies more tightly to combat future disasters like the Greek debt crisis. ...
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The Germans Knuckle Under

Posted: May 7, 2010 at 5:54 am

Whether the Germans wanted to flaunt it or not, they have always been the economic linchpin of the Eurozone. They were, until last year when China pulled ahead, the world's ...
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Eurozone Nations Can Bail out Their Banks Or Greece

Posted: April 29, 2010 at 5:34 am

There are several reports that Evolution Equities and Barclays have estimated the cost of a Greek default to Europe's banks over three years . One of the reports, from the ...
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How The Greek Debt Problem Can Be Fixed

Posted: April 28, 2010 at 5:19 am

Update: The German opposition Green Party said that the Greek bailout could cost 120 billion euros. The yield on Greek two-year bonds rose to 13.5% as S&P cut the credit rating ...
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