Euro Crisis

The clock struck midnight in Athens and Greece became the first advanced country ever to fail to repay an IMG loan. It is now formally in arrears, having missed the deadline for the payment of €1.6bn. This puts the country even closer to the Grexit, where it leaves the euro. It’s not definite yet – […]

I awoke before sunrise this morning and found a message in my inbox from the BOSS, asking if I would “write a piece about Greece.” I said, of course that I would. After having tended to some business, it is now four hours later and I can see that the entire continent of Europe is […]

Greek Finance Minister, Yanis Varufakis today confirmed to the press that Greece will not pay the 1,600 million euros owed to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), whose term expires at midnight. However, the European Commission (EC), through its president Jean-Claude Juncker, submitted an last-minute offer to the Greek PM, Alexis Tsipras, with three conditions to […]

Greek PM asks voters to reject bailout terms The future of the Greek economy faces continued uncertainty after Prime Minster Alex Tspiras threatened to resign if citizens did not vote to reject EU-IMF proposals bailout. “If the Greek people want to proceed with austerity plans in perpetuity, which will leave us unable to lift our […]

The euro fell as the prospect of a Greek exit from the Euro, or Grexit, moved ever closer. At one point it fell below $1.10 after the Greek government failed to come to an agreement with its creditors at the weekend. Banks in Greece will be closed all week, with capital controls limiting the amounts […]

“When I was 20 to 25 years younger, every move in the markets would make me excited. By the mid-90s, I got my emotions under control. I learned to focus on eliminating risk on the front end, so that I would have fewer problems on the back end.” – David J. Merkel Mr. Liam* was […]

Xerox (NYSE:XRX) shares declined Friday in response to the company’s Q4 and full-year earnings report. Its share price began the day above its 120-day moving average, only to fall abruptly and dramatically from 13.25 to a low of 12.94, remaining under its 120-day moving average for pretty much the rest of the day, closing at […]

I want to (re)prove a point today that I have tried to make on several occasions: The real news is in the story; not necessarily in the headline. That is why this headline for this article appears to be contradictory. Indeed, the share price of Caterpillar (NYSE:CAT) is up 1.40% to 80.96 on the New […]

A blind man with a stick can see that Europe is a mess. The present global chaos cycle which is reaching its climax in the coming years is bringing everything to the surface that has reached the end of its life cycle. This is an unpalatable fact we all have to learn to live with […]

“GE (NYSE:GE) ended the year with strong fourth-quarter industrial earnings and margin growth. the environment remains volatile, but we continue to see infrastructure growth opportunities. We are pleased with our execution in 2014, meeting our commitment to grow industrial segment profits 10%, industrial segment organic growth of 7%, increasing operating margins 50 basis points...