This may be one of those rare moments when market strength is a signal of growing danger, rather than a sign of better times to come.
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Why the Euro Crisis Proves Stocks Are The New Bonds
Woe to the unfortunate souls still exposed to European debt. The smart money (read: people like Warren Buffett and the world’s more successful hedge funders) got out of it a year and a half ago. It almost doesn’t matter …
What the Greek Debt Crisis Means for You
The problems in Europe will negatively affect the U.S. but also create a few opportunities
Should Greece Ditch the Euro?
Talk about drama. German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Nicolas Sarkozy and Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou emerged from an emergency meeting on Wednesday evening with a bombshell: Greece will have to decide if …
Why France — Not Greece or Italy — Will Decide the Fate of the Euro
France’s own economic problems will soon make it unable to help bail out weaker European countries. When that happens, the euro game will be up
Will Italy Bring Down the Eurozone?
Forget Greece. The biggest question mark in the never-ending eurozone debacle is now Italy.
European markets have been getting slammed over fears that Italy may be the next domino to fall. But why is Italy — whose debt problems have until now been on the back-burner — suddenly feeling the heat? First, eurozone finance ministers have …
Hard or Soft Landing for China? How About No Landing
The past few weeks in financial-land have been dominated by two combustible fears: 1.) that this time Greece really will default on its debts and plunge the Eurozone into chaos; and 2.) that this time China really will hit the …
Is Greece the Next Lehman?
We can all remember the sudden collapse of Lehman Brothers in September 2008, the official launch of the last financial crisis. Panicked investors dumped stocks and bonds around the globe in a desperate flight to cash and …
What Can You Do To Help Greece? Go There
It now appears that Greece will once again be bailed out of its financial morass. A year ago at this time, the world was roiled by the prospect of Greece defaulting on its considerable debts, and only the reluctant decision of …
More Greek Drama: Who’s Paying the Price?
The rumors about Greece’s second bailout, worth €60 billion ($86 billion), won’t go down easy in Germany, where taxpayers are particularly outraged at the idea of shelling out more hard-earned cash for the sake of Greek salvation. So German officials are pushing for something a bit more politically palatable: getting Greece’s …
Greece Fizzles But The Dow Sizzles
Investors large and small are watching a spectacular financial fire rage across Europe, with Greece headed for either all-out default or a painful restructuring of its debt, and fellow members of the European Union in earlier stages of their own crisis. (As of Tuesday afternoon, the leaders of the European Union were announcing their …
Greece Gets Snowed Under by New York
It’s a snow day here in New York City, with a foot and a half of the white stuff muffling the traffic noise and frosting the trees in my uptown neighborhood. Downtown on Wall Street there’s snow too, but a slightly different story: Greece is being buried by traders. They have been betting big money that the Aegean nation, familiar to …