
The Greece bailout crisis grew more acute Thursday even as the cash-strapped country avoided defaulting a debt payment.
Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is set to resign Thursday evening, setting the stage for a new election.
By Diane Alter, Contributing Writer, Money Morning -
The Greece bailout crisis grew more acute Thursday even as the cash-strapped country avoided defaulting a debt payment.
Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is set to resign Thursday evening, setting the stage for a new election.
By Diane Alter, Contributing Writer, Money Morning -
The Greece bailout crisis grew more acute Thursday even as the cash-strapped country avoided defaulting a debt payment.
Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is set to resign Thursday evening, setting the stage for a new election.
By Diane Alter, Contributing Writer, Money Morning -
After a 23-hour discussion, a Greece bailout agreement was reached Friday between the country and its international lenders. The Greece bailout is worth 85 billion euros ($93 billion).
Now many are wondering what's next for the country amid this debt crisis.
Here's everything investors need to know now...
By Jim Bach, Associate Editor, Money Morning • @JimBach22 -
The Greek bailout is the latest exercise in a geopolitical ploy to expand European business interests and reinforce North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) doctrine.
The only logical conclusion to this point is that this Greek bailout and the two preceding it were never about helping Greece repay.
The Greek debt crisis is about way more than just Greece or holding together the Eurozone...
By Michael E. Lewitt, Global Credit Strategist, Money Morning • @MichaelELewitt -
While markets decided to ignore what are destined to be doomed attempts to cover over intractable debt crises in Greece and China, the real action in the markets last week took place in two high-flying NASDAQ stocks - Netflix and Google.
Netflix stock split 7-to-1 and the company announced strong subscriber growth, pushing its stock up from a split-adjusted $98.13 on Wednesday to $114.77 at the end of the week. The 18% pop increased its market cap to $48.7 billion and its price/earnings ratio to 210x as Wall Street analysts competed with each other to raise their price targets to ever higher levels.
If you think that sounds giddy, look at what Google did...
By Jim Bach, Associate Editor, Money Morning • @JimBach22 -
It's hard to imagine a situation where this most recent 86 billion euro ($94.1 billion) Greek bailout will succeed where the first 110 billion euro ($120.4 billion) Greek bailout in 2010 failed.
Or where the second 130 billion euro ($142.2 billion) Greek bailout in 2012 also failed.
Here's what is going to happen with this recent round of funding, and what is to become of Greece...
By Jim Bach, Associate Editor, Money Morning • @JimBach22 -
By Jim Bach, Associate Editor, Money Morning • @JimBach22 -
Markets are breathing a sigh of relief now that Greece has negotiated a new bailout plan with its Eurozone creditors.
But, what will happen to Greece now? We've seen the results of years of austerity and it's not pretty.
And with this latest bailout round, is doesn't look like it's going to get any better...
By Michael E. Lewitt, Global Credit Strategist, Money Morning • @MichaelELewitt -
As a veteran investor and hedge fund manager, I've often pursued strategies that feed off volatility. So for me, the type of schizophrenic, up-and-down action that we saw last week was just what the doctor ordered. Unfortunately, for anyone banking on a positive long-term outcome for Greece and the EU, the doctor making orders may well be named Kervorkian.
The "Gridiots" in Europe spent the week torturing a world too fearful (or stupid) to just ignore their idiocy. The dysfunctional and bankrupt Hellenic State will continue to be funded for a couple of more years - after which they'll have to go through this moronic exercise all over again. Having allowed its populace to self-immolate and vote against accepting the demands of its creditors, the Syriza government caved to precisely those demands and now the world will wait to see if the rest of the European governments will be dumb enough to fall for this charade.
By Money Morning Member Alert, Money Morning -
The recent disquiet over Greece has been threatening the markets and dominating the headlines, but the best course of action for investors right now is to view it as more noise than signal.
The Greek situation has taken years to play out, and the levels of non-hedged global exposure to Greek debt have been drastically reduced since 2010. There has also been plenty of time to mitigate the risk of contagion that could result from a Greek default or even an exit from the euro.
By Jim Bach, Associate Editor, Money Morning • @JimBach22 -
The Eurozone and the Greek people are wondering what happens if Greece exits the euro.
The conventional wisdom is that Greece would abandon the euro, adopt the drachma, and then work to devalue it to boost export competitiveness and grow the economy.
The reality is not so simple...
By Michael E. Lewitt, Global Credit Strategist, Money Morning • @MichaelELewitt -
America celebrates the July 4th holiday under the threat of homegrown terrorism while global financial markets face a trifecta of threats from Greece, Puerto Rico and China.
By Diane Alter, Contributing Writer, Money Morning -
Greece debt talks are heating up. Greece will be in default Tuesday if it doesn't reach an agreement with its creditors.
Should Greece default, the cash-strapped country is likely to exit the Eurozone. The ramifications will be felt worldwide.
Here's what you need to know and how to play this critical situation.
By Dr. Kent Moors, Global Energy Strategist, Oil & Energy Investor • @KentMoors_OEI -
There are now rising indications that the Greek government and its creditors are going to avert a full-blown financial meltdown...
And this means there are some positive developments coming for the energy sector.
Here's what needs to happen in Greece... and how it could affect an entire industry...
By Jim Bach, Associate Editor, Money Morning • @JimBach22 -
What happens when Greece defaults?
That's the question on the market's mind right now. It's no longer a question of "what happens if Greece defaults?"
Here's why the stakes are high, and why a default or "Grexit" is about more than just Greece...
By Jim Bach, Associate Editor, Money Morning • @JimBach22 -
For most of the Greek debt crisis the reality has been well-known. Even if it was only initially discussed among the staffers and in the back offices of the International Monetary Fund, a Greek default has always been inevitable.
So now that Greece is €328 billion in the hole – a 175% debt-to-GDP ratio – exactly why hasn’t Greece defaulted on its debt yet?
Here’s the real story behind the Greek debt crisis…