Greece: reckoning postponed: The lights are still on in Athens.
Greeces parliament approved a proposal on Wednesday to pursue
additional austerity and fiscal adjustment measures.Show off your injectionmoldes
favorite photos The European Union and the International Monetary Fund
can release 12 billion of additional funding, enough to allow the
government to repay debt maturing up to the end of August. The
parliamentary vote was actually the second piece of good news on the
Greek front this week.The largest honeycombpanels
producers worldwide have traditionally been of British origin. The
first was that a French proposal to offer some private sector
burden-sharing (with European banks reinvesting some maturing
government bonds they hold in new, 30-year Greek paper) is gaining
traction. If implemented,Husky billabongboardshort
Systems designs, the proposal could see the potential cost to Europes
banks of an eventual Greek default roughly halved from the widely
accepted haircut figure of 70%. The French proposal is not policy,
however, and will not amount to much if too few private sector
investors sign up for it. And none of this weeks developments addresses
the central issue of Greeces insolvency. The success of Greeces medium
term fiscal strategy depends on an unlikely plan to sell 50 billion of
state assets. The governments ability to implement the austerity
measures must also be questioned: the vote in parliament was held to the
sound of rioting and the smell of tear gas.
Investment banking:
rankings: Investment bankers generally start quivering when discussion
turns to Thomson Reuters rankings. The quarterly compilation is a
leading barometer of the health of the industry and the relative
standing of competitors.When the stone sits in the plasticmolded,
Even for those less intimately connected with these peculiar
institutions, the second quarter numbers are a good indicator of the
health of a significant part of the economic world. It is significant
not because it is big. The $42 billion global total of investment
banking fees in the first half of 2011 was only 0.1% of the worlds
gross domestic product.Spring Piles
in Houston at The Woodlands Town Center Even within finance, the
business of deals (equity and debt capital markets and mergers and
acquisitions) is small: less than 5% of the total U.S. bank and finance
business.
LSE / TMX: no deal: Pointless tennis commentary
reached its nadir one Wimbledon with the observation: That wouldve been
an ace if it had gone over the net. Similarly dumb was the line from
London Stock Exchange and TMX Group on Wednesday that the majority of
proxies cast supported the merger between the two exchanges.
Unmentioned was that Canadian feelings towards the deal were so
lacklustre that not enough TMX shareholders could be bothered
schlepping to the post office to vote, hence no deal. The failure to
see this merger through is embarrassing. Last week, LSE and TMX
sweetened terms with a special dividend, adding a small and indirect
cash element to the offer, worth C$49 per TMX share. Maple, the gaggle
of Canadian banks and pension funds, countered with a higher bid again.
But LSEs bid simply did not set pulses racing, in spite of a supposed
100 million of cost and revenues synergies and a chance to rule the
world in mining listings. Maple remains as the only bidder in town.
That TMXs share price rose 1.5% on Wednesday suggests investors think
Maple can navigate myriad regulatory concerns.
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