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Citigroup: Here’s Our Five-Step Plan to Solve the Greek Crisis
July 8th, 2015
For six years the Greek crisis has unfolded in a predictable pattern: Greece needs money. Euro area leaders don’t want to give it to them without imposing tough conditions. Brinkmanship ensues, followed by some sort of ineffectual compromise. And repeat. According ...
Greece Given Until Sunday to Settle Debt Crisis or Face Disaster
July 8th, 2015
Frustrated European leaders gave Greece until Sunday to reach an agreement to save its collapsing economy from catastrophe after an emergency summit meeting here on Tuesday ended without the Athens government offering a substantive new proposal to resolve its debt ...
Trillion-Dollar Stock Managers See Chaos on Greek ‘No’ Vote
July 6th, 2015
It shouldn’t have gotten this far. That’s the view of equity managers overseeing more than $3.7 trillion, who say the game of chicken between Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and creditors threatens lasting damage to a European stock rally ...
Greece PM Tsipras Makes Move to End Bailout Deadlock
July 1st, 2015
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras accepted creditors’ proposals as a basis for compromise to end a standoff over its bailout. In a letter to European Commission President Jean Claude Juncker, European Central Bank President Mario Draghi and International Monetary ...
Greece Risk May Pose Black Swan Dangers for Emerging Markets
June 30th, 2015
Here we go again. A flight to haven assets has begun as Greece’s economy faces a tailspin, sparking concern defaults and bank collapses could spill over to other European nations, and impose a global impact. This time, though, Europe ...
Greek referendum is a Machiavellian plot
June 29th, 2015
Alexis Tsipras gambles on Greece’s future with a sham referendum. A few days ago, in the euro summit on June 22, all indications were that Europe’s political beasts and IMF representatives were ready to accept the latest proposal of ...
Decisions taken by the Governing Council of the ECB (in addition to decisions setting interest rates)
June 22nd, 2015
Market operations Substitute purchases by Eesti Pank On 2 June 2015 the Governing Council decided that, owing to the lack of government and agency bonds needed to accommodate the Estonian benchmark allocation under the PSPP, Eesti Pank could conduct ...
The Bank of Greece Report on Monetary Policy 2014-2015
June 17th, 2015
Today, in accordance with its Statute, the Bank of Greece submitted its Report on Monetary Policy 2014-2015 to the Speaker of the Greek Parliament and the Cabinet. At the time of writing of the present report, news kept unfolding, ...
Greece Enters Fateful Week as Talks End Fruitlessly
June 15th, 2015
Greece enters what could be a defining week after last-ditch negotiations between representatives of the Greek government and its creditors collapsed on Sunday. The euro dropped as the European Commission said the talks in Brussels had broken up after ...
Developing Countries Face Tough Transition in 2015 with Higher Borrowing Costs and Lower Prices for Oil & Other Commodities
June 11th, 2015
Developing countries face a series of tough challenges in 2015, including the looming prospect of higher borrowing costs as they adapt to a new era of low prices for oil and other key commodities, resulting in a fourth consecutive ...
