Financial Investment Risk Consultant | Lawrence McDonald
Financial & Economic Consultant | New York Times Bestselling Author
Article by Paul Dobson, Emma Charlton and Lucy Meakin, Bloomberg European Central Bank President Mario Draghi’s unlimited three-year loans to euro-region banks may give Italy and Spain only temporary respite from the region’s debt crisis. Two-year Italian and Spanish notes rallied since the ECB said Dec. 8 that it planned to offer as much liquidity as [...]
Article By CNBC.com and Reuters Standard & Poor’s has downgraded France’s credit rating, French TV reported Friday, while several other euro zone countries face the same fate later in the day, according to reports. Germany and the Netherlands aren’t among those facing a downgrade, a senior euro zone government source told Reuters. Another source confirmed [...]
Article By Gabi Thesing, Bloomberg The European Central Bank took a record amount of overnight deposits yesterday as the region’s financial institutions entrusted funds amassed from emergency lending operations. Euro-area banks parked 455.3 billion euros ($582 billion) with the Frankfurt-based ECB, the most since the euro’s introduction in 1999 and up from 443.7 billion euros reported yesterday. [...]
Article By Chiara Vasarri, Bloomberg Italy will sell as much as $11 billion in bonds today, one day after borrowing costs plunged at an auction of shorter-maturity debt. The Treasury in Rome will sell bonds maturing in 2014, 2018, 2021 and 2022. Italy yesterday sold 9 billion euros of 179-day bills to yield 3.251 percent, down [...]
Sharing his forecast for the new year and the sectors to watch, with Larry McDonald, Newedge Senior Director, who says utilities and financials will be the sectors to watch in 2012.
Article By CNBC via Reuters Italian government bond yields edged higher on Tuesday and were expected to rise further this week with investors growing nervous that thin liquidity may complicate Rome’s plans to sell 8.5 billion euros worth of debt. Ten-year Italian bond yields rose 8 basis points on the day to 7.10 percent, widening the [...]
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