Tag Archive: France

May 20

Why Greece’s exit from EU is the end game?

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Past 40 years has been a period of unprecedented economic growth. Humankind has probably never seen such a growth in entire history. Stock markets rising, banks lending at low interest rates, companies making big profits and general public having easy access to money to buy luxury cars, posh homes, holidays in exotic places around the …

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Mar 10

Ratings and Outlook of European countries by three major rating agencies

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Let us see where these countries stand as per their ratings by rating agencies and find out who would go burst in which order. It seems Germany is the only country for which all the three rating agencies unilaterally agree on stable outlook. UK, Netherland and Austria are in stable zone. But look at the …

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Nov 11

Welcome to the Core..France is jittery and media knows it

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As the attention shifts from Greece to Italy, next in lineup is France and its AAA rating. Mainstream media as already started bringing up France’s problems. S&P’s mistaken downgrade of France can’t just be a mistake, something was cooking in there. May be S&P was ready to surprise the markets again, not in this way …

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Sep 26

Danger Map by Deutsche Bank identifies countries in financial stress

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Deutsche bank’s danger map is an representation of financial health of major developed and developing economies of the world. It allots scores on the basis of several financial criteria like Deregulation of lending,%of credit to GDP, Unemployment, interest rates, Exchange rate Volatility, etc. Map shows Greece, Ireland, Portugal and Spain under the danger zone among …

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Sep 14

Why can’t French banks be bailed-out, Jefferies explains

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In most ways the excess borrowing by, and lending to, European sovereign nations was no different than it was to US sub prime households. In both cases loans were made to folks that never had the means to pay them back. And these loans were made in the first place because regulatory arbitrage allowed stealth …

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Sep 08

Political drama continues in Europe as EU demise looks inevitable

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It is all messy in European Union. Leaders of the nations are losing all their trust among the voters. EU leaders failed to fix the problems faced by Euro and now they know the have run out of time and there are not much option left with them. Mish posts political updates of European Union …

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Aug 19

CDS prices for European nations show high chances of default

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It is becoming clearer with every passing day that European Union nations might default on their debt payments in coming years. A look at the Credit Default Swap prices tells us that if markets have to be believed there are high chances that countries like Greece can default within next 5 years. CDS prices of …

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