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While Macro Man opted to present a po(p)etic styling on the ongoing hardship in Greece (or was that Grease?) today came with a couple of notable developments in the story and would seem to be honourable and real efforts to calm down…

The EU-IMF package came in at 110 billion euros (80 from the EU and 30 from the IMF). It is designed to see Greece through to 2014 for the stability and growth pact 3% deficit hurdle, not 2012 as had been anticipated by many. After news of…

Edward does a nice job to sum up the flurry of the past week which saw the ongoing problems in Greece elevated to a full fledged systemic crisis in the Eurozone economy which, if it ultimately blows, will have ramifications far beyond the…

If you would like to receive our links in real-time please follow me at @edwardnh or go to our site’s News Feed. I like the first link below. However, it does move rather quickly from a discussion about Greece, which operates in a limited…

I have written a number of posts which point to a shift in the center of power on Wall Street from the client-facing advisory business to the market-making trading business. I think understanding this shift is vital to understanding what…

According to a once famous statement by the British Prime Minister Harold Wilson, a week can often be a long time in politics. But when it comes to financial market crises the situation often feels more like a line from the Dinah Washington…

This is a list of all the credit ratings available on sovereign debt from all three big credit rating agencies, Fitch, Moody's and S&P.

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Well, I don’t know how many other people have noticed, but the Hungarian forint tanked today. This is the one I had been waiting for, and expecting. And precisely why did it tank? It tanked because Viktor Orban, Hungary’s…

I am at a conference all day and will probably do a spot on BNN late this afternoon, so blogging will be limited. But I wanted to alert you to my thinking on some of the latest developments on Greece. Apparently, Germany is now planning to…