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JP Morgan’s European Exposure reported at $16 bln in the South | Banking Insight

Here’s the details from the 10k filed earlier 10 days ago. European loan book is well north of $100 bln but is mostly lending to UK, Swiss and Netherland Corporates that are almost half their European Exposure and two retain AAA

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Posted in Amitonomics, Banking, European Sovereign Debt crisis, US

Greece’s Legacy for the Euro | Advantage zyaada

The Greek and Portugal national default, as likely and now also triggered by the newly driven down debt ratings, have been coming for some time. ECB, Germany ( Eur 35 billion) and France ( Eur 60 billion ) have current

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Posted in Financial Markets

Understanding Default Swaps | The Greece flavor

Or teaching newspapers to report it right I understand popular sentiment is al little against these Investment Banks for their pay and some others but with the NY Times going for journalistic jingoism and trying to put all blame at

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Posted in Financial Markets, Financial Services, Global, O'nomics, Uncategorized, US

Portugal, Greece are in fact 'not significant' | Advantage zyaada

The numbers look like this : Greece first , has $360 billion GDP , $350 Bn of which is Public Debt, Total Debt is $485 billion. All reference data is CIA Factbook, plus hints from indexmundi.com) Similarly, the others ,

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Posted in Financial Markets, Financial Services, Global, O'nomics, Real estate, Uncategorized

Wow, it's moving so quickly | Advantage Banking

From 2008, when Lehman keeled over despite the great show in financial resuts and tying up financing, my friends with a not so intelligent non finance background were full of glee and caprice at the unexpected holiday. I’d like to

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Posted in Emerging Markets, O'nomics, Private Equity, Retail Lifestyle, Uncategorized, US