Showing posts with label eurozone. Show all posts
Showing posts with label eurozone. Show all posts
Sunday, November 29, 2015

A contrarian perspective on the short euro trade

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As the euro continues to drift lower, it has become the accepted wisdom that we are headed for parity with the dollar. Source: barchar...
Wednesday, November 18, 2015

Eurozone reacts to anticipated fed rate hike

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Guest post by Marcello Minenna Almost without warning, the Eurozone government bonds and the Euro experience spikes in volatility this ...
Monday, August 17, 2015

Plan B: the search for a solution to the Greek crisis

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Guest post by Marcello Minenna Yanis Varoufakis’ notorious Plan B is gaining notoriety as Greece’s ex-finance minister now faces crimi...
Sunday, July 26, 2015

Troika to extend the unsustainable Greek debt by decades

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The Euorzone leadership remains uneasy with the third bailout of Greece. This unease can be seen in the recent delay to the start of the n...
Saturday, June 20, 2015

Managing Greek default risks

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Many in Europe continue to believe in the permanence of the Eurosystem. The Bank of Greece is controlled by the ECB and its assets and lia...
Tuesday, June 16, 2015

Shedding light on recent bond volatility in the Eurozone

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Guest post by Marcello Minenna Typically the technical details of open market operations of the central banks are not known. The unpred...
Sunday, April 19, 2015

Bank of Greece expulsion from the Eurosystem could be especially damaging to the currency union

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Risks to the euro area's ongoing economic recovery have risen recently as Greece once again takes center stage. The nation is about to...
Sunday, April 5, 2015

Renewed demand for dollar funding in the Eurozone

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In 2011, as the sovereign debt crisis engulfed the Eurozone, the EUR/USD swap basis was deep in the negative territory ( see 2011 post ). ...
Monday, March 2, 2015

The Eurozone: on the road to recovery with a lingering risk

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Posted by Walter Back in September the idea that the Eurozone's economy could potentially undergo a recovery ( see post ) was met wi...