with an excuse though!.... if you have had traders in your staff hedging a long position on Greek bonds you deserve the hair cut it seems.... never heard of that kind of new regulation... at least if you want make sure no one buy bonds, I guess you just found the perfect rule...??
Read the article
Influential German business newspaper Handelsblatt said in an editorial on Thursday: "Greece's debt burden must be cut to make it sustainable. In some form or other this will mean that creditors will have to do without billions."
The chief economist of Deutsche Bank, Germany's biggest bank, suggested this week that half of Greece's sovereign debt of some 300 billion euros might be written off.
Thomas Mayer said banks and insurers might take a haircut of 50 billion euros so that Greece could return to the debt markets.
Thomas Mayer said banks and insurers might take a haircut of 50 billion euros so that Greece could return to the debt markets.
Cinzia Alcidi, a research fellow at the Centre for European Policy Studies in Brussels, said a five-year moratorium on Greek debt repayments would be one solution that kept costs to investors as low as possible.
Can people around Sarky brief the guy with some accurate stuff so he doesn't say anything stupid about speculation....? Can you just do the job the taxpayer pays so much for?