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Greece may have passed a big hurdle on the way to arranging a further bail-out package this week calming markets along the way, but borrowers that relax over the summer could well find themselves regretting not having taken immediate advantage of the better conditions.
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Time is up for the covered bond lemmings. They’ve had it too easy for too long. Gone are the days of pricing a covered bond exactly where your neighbour wished they had printed theirs. Issuers need to be nimble and bankers insightful.
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All political careers supposedly end in failure, but the same seems to be true of investment bank chief executives.
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The stock market of the world’s second largest economy is in crisis. China’s A-shares have suffered their biggest three-week drop in a decade, wiping more than $3tr off the market. -
Bankers will not admit it, but the public euro bond markets are de facto shut. Barring a miracle in Greece, they are expected to remain so until after Labor Day in early September.
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Before the days of miniaturised electronics, coal miners would use a canary in a cage as an early warning system. If a tunnel was filling with carbon monoxide, the bird would die before the miners, leaving them time to get out.
