Euro

May 7, 2010

Why is VIX still up more than 50%,Yen up 5% against Dollar While US markets have recovered after falling 8%

The rush to safe haven assets today was frightening to say the least.As I write this VIX went up by more than 50% while Yen is […]
May 7, 2010

US Markets Drop more than 8% , Dow down more than 900 points ;Where is the PPT

Markets are dropping like a rock. Went down more than 4% in less than a minute.Seemed like that the whole financial system was unravelling. The European […]
May 5, 2010

Spanish PM calls debt fears related to country's sovereign debt as "complete madness" but CDS on Spain keeps climbing higher

The politicians keep saying that the sovereign debt fears related to their country are a complete hogwash but these fears keep coming true with nasty regularity.Dubai’s […]
May 4, 2010

Do Falling Chinese and Southern European Markets portend the end of March 2009 rally?

For the last few days the Shanghai and Southern European markets of Spain,Greece and Portugal have been falling despite higher US stock indices.This is a bit […]
May 4, 2010

IMF-EU Brokered Greek Bailout Plan might Unravel sooner than you think

Greece agreed on a plan with EU-IMF which requires sharp spending cuts and tax increases on Sunday to get their hands of more than 100 billion […]
May 2, 2010

Where will Portugal and Spain go? Germany Economy Minister says Greek bailout cannot be allowed again

German Economy Minister and Free Democrat Party Leader ( FDP is one of the junior partners in the ruling coalition and stands for its pro-business liberal […]
May 2, 2010

Weekend Bailout – Greece Agrees on EU-IMF bailout with "great sacrifices"

As has been the fashion since the financial crisis began with Bear Sterns, bailouts are worked out during the weekends ,the Greece one also was no […]
April 30, 2010

Markets think we have got past European debt worries, but have we?

Markets were back up to previous levels after a bailout package for Greece got an assent from the Germans and the IMF.But the condition of southern […]