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Greek and German finance ministers clash at debt relief talks
Greek and German finance ministers clash at debt relief talks No agreement to disagree on Athens’ debts as Varoufakis brings up spectre of Greek nazism and Schäuble offers 500 German tax collectors Greece’s radical Syriza government remained locked in a bitter standoff with its German paymasters, as finance minister Yanis Varoufakis issued a stark warning […]
ECB Pulls The Trigger: Blocks Funding To Greece Via Debt Collateral – Full Statement
ECB Pulls The Trigger: Blocks Funding To Greece Via Debt Collateral – Full Statement Just what the market had hoped would not happen… *ECB SAYS IT LIFTS WAIVER ON GREEK GOVERNMENT DEBT AS COLLATERAL *ECB SAYS IT CAN’T ASSUME SUCCESSFUL CONCLUSION OF GREECE REVIEW What this means simply is that since Greek banks are now […]
Have A Little Faith In Blotto
Have A Little Faith In Blotto What, Greece again? Sorry!! But I see a lot of things flash by that make me want to say something. Today it’s the alleged 180 that Syriza made on debt reduction, before that it was their alleged kow-towing to Brussels on Russia sanctions, and tomorrow it’ll be something else […]
Greeks Spooked by Debt Clashes Put Cash Under Bathroom Tiles
Greeks Spooked by Debt Clashes Put Cash Under Bathroom Tiles (Bloomberg) — Georgios Karavelas drives a taxi in Athens and for the past month has been a silent witness to what ordinary Greeks are doing with their cash. One passenger, he said, told someone on his mobile phone that he’d withdrawn 25,000 euros from the […]
Chaos, Fear, Panic Descend on EU’s Hallowed Halls of Power
Chaos, Fear, Panic Descend on EU’s Hallowed Halls of Power According to Greek private broadcaster Mega TV, “You just killed the Troika” were the parting words that Eurogroup Chief Jeroen Dijsselbloem whispered into the right ear of Greece’s new Finance Minister Yannis Varoufakis at the end of what was clearly a tense meeting. Varoufakis’ response […]
Commodities crash: Bad news for the world economy, but is anyone listening?
Commodities crash: Bad news for the world economy, but is anyone listening? Reading the general run of financial headlines might lead one to believe that price declines in those commodities which are highly sensitive to economic conditions such as iron ore, copper, oil, natural gas, coal, and lumber are good on their face. Obviously, the declines aren’t good for those who sell these commodities. […]
Oil-and-Gas Default Wave, “Outright Liquidations” Next
Oil-and-Gas Default Wave, “Outright Liquidations” Next Every rally in crude oil since June turned out to be a pathetic sucker rally. On Friday, West Texas Intermediate fell over 2% to $45.32 a barrel, back where it had been on January 12, annihilating most of the 12% rally in between. WTI is now 58% below the June […]
The Scariest Chart For America’s Shale Industry
The Scariest Chart For America’s Shale Industry Back in early November, when we posted “If WTI Drops To $60, It Will “Trigger A Broader HY Market Default Cycle“, it was greeted with the usual allegations of conspiracy theorism, tin-foil hattery and pretty much everything else, except rebutting facts. Two months later, it was none other […]
This Week In Energy: Asian Energy Empire Expansion
This Week In Energy: Asian Energy Empire Expansion This week saw WTI prices break the psychological $50 threshold, compounding trader and oil company woes further. However, recent price updates from certain shale areas in the U.S. would seem to indicate many producers arereceiving far less for their oil (as low as $34 per barrel in some […]
Subprime Spikes Auto Sales, Delinquencies Soar, Industry in Total Denial, Fallout to Hit Main Street
Subprime Spikes Auto Sales, Delinquencies Soar, Industry in Total Denial, Fallout to Hit Main Street New vehicle sales in the US have been on a tear in 2014, rising 5.6% to 16.5 million units, the highest since banner year 2006. Light-truck sales jumped 10%, cars edged up 1.8%. The industry is drunk with its own […]
Cyprus Airways shuts after EU order to repay state aid
Cyprus Airways shuts after EU order to repay state aid The national airline of Cyprus has ceased operations after the European Commission ordered that it must repay €65 million in illegal state aid. The Commission ruled that the airline, which has been losing money for some time and is 94% government-owned, must pay back €65m of […]
Russia says Ukraine has violated loan terms, no decision on repayment: agencies
Russia says Ukraine has violated loan terms, no decision on repayment: agencies (Reuters) – Ukraine has violated the terms of a $3 billion Russian loan but Moscow has not yet decided whether to demand early repayment, Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov was quoted on Saturday as saying. Russia lent the money in December 2013 by buying Ukrainian Eurobonds, […]
Fed looks past a world in turmoil, confident in U.S. recovery
Fed looks past a world in turmoil, confident in U.S. recovery (Reuters) – U.S. central bankers have looked beyond a global deflation threat, fear of energy-sector bond defaults, and a surge of oil patch layoffs to reach what appears to be a firm conclusion: the U.S. recovery is here to stay. New trade data released […]
Oil and the Economy: Where are We Headed in 2015-16?
Oil and the Economy: Where are We Headed in 2015-16? The price of oil is down. How should we expect the economy to perform in 2015 and 2016? Newspapers in the United States seem to emphasize the positive aspects of the drop in prices. I have written Ten Reasons Why High Oil Prices are a Problem. If […]
Russian Default Risk Surges To New 6-Year Highs As Ruble Rubble Returns
Russian Default Risk Surges To New 6-Year Highs As Ruble Rubble Returns Just when you thought it was all over… Having bounced post-CBR intervention and somewhat stabilized, the re-collapse in crude oil prices and continued weakness in Russian macro data provided just the impetus for a re-plunge in the Ruble (back above 63.5/USD) and surge in Russian bond yields […]



