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Oil tumbles as Iran nuclear deal looms
Oil tumbles as Iran nuclear deal looms An offshore oil platform is seen in Huntington Beach, California September 28, 2014. REUTERS/LUCY NICHOLSON Oil prices tumbled on Monday as Iran and six world powers closed in on a nuclear deal that would end sanctions on the Islamic Republic and let more Iranian oil on to world […]
Deal Struck Following Total Capitulation By Tsipras: Market Awaits Greek Reaction To Draconian Deal Terms
Deal Struck Following Total Capitulation By Tsipras: Market Awaits Greek Reaction To Draconian Deal Terms Last night, when we concluded our overnight summary state of affairs we said that “we expect some resolution around first light this morning, and while another Greek can kicking and some last-moment “hope” is surely in the cards, we know two things: […]
Troika Says Greek Proposal Not Enough To Meet Targets, Serves As “Basis For Negotiations”
Troika Says Greek Proposal Not Enough To Meet Targets, Serves As “Basis For Negotiations” Early on Saturday morning, the Tsipras government passed the Greek bailout proposal which it told the Greek people to reject – which they did – less than a week earlier. The grotesque farce continued until the very end when 15 Syriza lawmakers who […]
Germany Crushes All Hope Of Greece Getting Debt Relief
Germany Crushes All Hope Of Greece Getting Debt Relief As the Grexit debate is falling into the background a new, far more powerful conflict emerges: one between Germany on one side, and the IMF, France, Italy, and perhaps even the US, when it comes to the all important issue of debt relief. As a reminder, […]
Greece Caves, Formally Requests ESM Bailout: Full Headline And Next Steps Summary
Greece Caves, Formally Requests ESM Bailout: Full Headline And Next Steps Summary As we reported yesterday, following the latest European leaders summit, Greece was given until the end of the week to come up with a proposal for sweeping reforms in return for loans that will keep the country from crashing out of Europe’s currency […]
It Begins: ECB Hikes Greek ELA Haircuts; Full “Depositor Bail-In” Sensitivity Analysis
It Begins: ECB Hikes Greek ELA Haircuts; Full “Depositor Bail-In” Sensitivity Analysis Earlier today we reported that as Bloomberg correctly leaked, the ECB would keep its ELA frozen for Greek banks at its ?89 billion ceiling level last increased two weeks ago. However we did not know what the ECB would do with Greek ELA […]
Greek Capital Controls Begin: Greek Banks, Stock Market Will Not Open On Monday
Greek Capital Controls Begin: Greek Banks, Stock Market Will Not Open On Monday Update 2: Greece’s Skai reports that if/when banks reopen (supposedly on Tuesday), a 60€ withdrawal limit will be imposed. Update: In a televised address to the nation, Greek PM Alexis Tsipras assured Greeks that their deposits are safe despite an upcoming bank holiday and […]
Greece Rejects “Totally Unaccepetable” IMF Counterproposal Demanding Pension Cuts, VAT Hike
Greece Rejects “Totally Unaccepetable” IMF Counterproposal Demanding Pension Cuts, VAT Hike As reported earlier and as tipped here on Monday, markets will have to call off the party for now because the focus of the Greek debt deal negotiations has now shifted back to Brussels after all eyes had turned briefly to Athens on Tuesday […]
How The IMF Can Save Greece And Itself
How The IMF Can Save Greece And Itself There’s a Reuters article by Paul Taylor today that’s thought provoking, but not along the same line of thought that the writer follows (or the twist he gives to it). Taylor concludes that the IMF would love to wash its hands off Greece, but can’t because it’s […]
The PetroYuan Is Born: Gazprom Now Settling All Crude Sales To China In Renminbi
The PetroYuan Is Born: Gazprom Now Settling All Crude Sales To China In Renminbi Two topics we’ve deemed critically important to a thorough understanding of both global finance and the shifting geopolitical landscape are the death of the petrodollar and the idea of yuan hegemony. Last November, in “How The Petrodollar Quietly Died And No […]
Price Manipulation In The Oil Markets?
Price Manipulation In The Oil Markets? According to Reuters, Arcadia Petroleum Ltd, and its Parnon Energy unit have settled a $16.5 million civil suit filed against them for manipulating futures prices. This comes after a prior settlement with the US Commodities Futures Trading Commission whereby both entities were banned for trading futures for three years. […]
How Reliable Is Reuters?
How Reliable Is Reuters? People see their own nation, and foreign nations, through the filter of the press that’s available to them; so, if that filter is systematically distorting (distorting in ways that most of the others similarly do), then democracy cannot function, public opinion can be manipulated and warped; and wars might even start […]
Germany Orders 100 Tanks To “Ensure Troops Are Ready To Respond To Russian Assertiveness”
Germany Orders 100 Tanks To “Ensure Troops Are Ready To Respond To Russian Assertiveness” With Jean-Claude Juncker demanding a Unified European Army, it appears Germany is wasting no time in simultaneously boosting its own economy with warfare spending and comforting a ‘fearful populace’ with more military might. As Reuters reports, Germany plans to procure more than 100 […]
And That Successfully Concludes “Big Brother 101”
And That Successfully Concludes “Big Brother 101” Desperate to spin Europe’s deflation, pardon “negative inflation” pardon the lack of impulse to go ahead and spend money you don’t have right here right now, into a good, if only for Keynesians, thing? Don’t worry – we’ve got you covered. Below is a sampling of perfectly contradictory Reuters headlines all posted within a […]
