Food For Thought on The EUR As Ireland Gets Ready To Vote Again On The Lisbon Treaty
This Oct. 2nd will be ‘the’ day of reckoning for Euro-land. Ireland w...
Swiss Bank Outlaws U.S. Assets
Who hasn’t heard of the ubiquitous “secret Swiss bank accountâââ...
ECB Holds Line on Interest Rates
As expected, the European Central Bank (ECB) maintained its historically-low rate of 1.0 percent not...
Sweden Goes Negative
How low can you go? On July 8th, the Riksbank – Sweden’s centra...
UK Ready to Commit Extra $11bn to IMF
Alistair Darling the UK's Central Banker spoke ahead of the G20 meeting touching on the subject brou...
Australian Dollar Benefits from Oil Bounce
The Australian dollar hit a two week high after rumors of the Reserve Bank of Australia raising inte...
Iceland to Pay Back Icesave Cash
A sore issue with the UK and Netherlands governments seems to have been resolved as the Icelandic Pa...
Canada Plans First U.S.-Dollar Global Bond in Decade
Canada plans to sell as much as $3 billion of U.S.-dollar bonds worldwide in “th...
Oil up above $73; barrier at $75
Reuters Oil rose above $73 a barrel on Friday, lifted by slightly better GDP and jobs data ou...
Boost for UK’s economic growth prospects
Timesonline: Britain’s economy shrank by 0.7 per cent in the second quarter,...
German govt focused on Magna’s Opel bid
Reuters: German Chancellor Angela Merkel said her government is committed to its negotiating ...
Japanese economy hit by ‘double nightmare’
From Timesonline With potentially the most momentous general election for five decades ...
Japan jobless rate hits new high
From the BBC: Japan's jobless rate hit a record 5.7% in July and consumer prices fell at a re...
UBS has no plans to buy back toxic assets from SNB
From Reuters: Swiss bank UBS currently has no plans to buy back toxic assets which were trans...