Spain was forced to seek a bailout this weekend, becoming by far the largest country to need help during Europe’s 2 1 / 2-year-long economic crisis. But it was tiny Greece that pushed Spain over the brink. Greek voters head to the polls Sunday with a stark choice between leaders who accept the harsh terms of…
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Banks shrink from counterparty risk as euro crisis rolls on | Reuters
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Alarmed by Europe’s latest debt crisis and its unpredictable outcome, banks are getting increasingly picky about who they do business with for fear of taking on risky exposures to rivals who could be about to be whipsawed by bad debts. Greece’s slow-motion crash towards default, coupled with the poor health of banks in Spain, have…
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The slow-motion run on Greece’s banks | Brussels blog | News on the European Union from the Financial Times – FT.com
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Jitters over whether Greece will be forced out of the euro have turned the focus of policymakers in recent days on whether Greece is on the precipice of a bank run… … a full-scale bank run would force the European Central Bank and eurozone lenders to either pump in more money – without a new…
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Slow Motion Meltup Goes On and On
by Lee Adler • • 0 Comments
The slow motion meltup goes on. The market averages are on the brink of pushing through a major resistance level. That could lead to much higher prices over the next several weeks as the players look forward to the big ECB financing operation on February 29.
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Bulls In Clover While TBAC Is Smoking Dope As Usual
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The Treasury market panic continued this week, with yields heading for new lows, thanks partly to a return of central banks to the table at a modest level, but mostly due to a ratcheting up of public buying. Bond fund inflows hit a record last week. It’s sheer panic. Bedlam. The panic atmosphere has been…
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The 10 Crash Commandments
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I been in this game for years, it made me a animal
There’s rules to this s**t, I wrote me a manual
A step by step booklet for you to get
your game on track, not your wig pushed back
The Ten Crack Commandments, Notorious B.I.G.
I don’t try a…
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How To Fall From Near Zero- Slowly – Professional Edition
by Lee Adler • • 0 Comments
Mortgage applications remained moribund this week after a counter trend move in most of October and November. The data shows no sign of a reversal of the downtrend in purchase applications. New homes sales data released by the Commerce Department today shows builder sales at new record lows. The housing industry remains in a slow…
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Why Bernanke’s Gambit May Be Checkmated- Professional Edition EXPANDED PREVIEW
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SPECIAL EXPANDED PREVIEW and free Radio Free Wall Street podcast. The Fed completed the first full week of its pumping campaign under QE2 this week with the purchase of $31 billion in Treasury notes, bonds, and TIPS. The total schedule for the first month calls for purchases of $105 billion. The initial round of purchases…
