Popular Posts
- SERBIA / LIBYA : Are Serbian Mercenary Pilots Bombing Protestors In Tripoli?
- BRASIL: 23 Cops Get 156 Years In Jail For Carandiru Prison Massacre.
- MEXICO / USA : Culiacan's Famous Narco Cemetery; Border Patrol Shoots It Out With Narcos.
- BRASIL: Shocking Amazonas Police Brutality... Caught On Tape.
- ARGENTINA / USA / GHANA /GERMANY: UN Court Orders Impounded Naval Sailing Ship Freed.
- COLOMBIA: FARC Female Rebel Captivates Dutch.
- BRASIL/ LIBYA: S.Paulo Surgeon Claims Gadhafi Had Cosmetic Surgery in 1995.
- BRASIL / USA / MEDIA : Factoid: Lourdes Garcia-Navarro Heads For Rio...To Open NPR Bureau.
- RUSSIA / CHECHNYA : VIDEO/ FOTOS: 40 Story Grozny Skyscraper Burns.
- BRASIL / EUROZONE: Europeans Setting Up Homes In Rio's Former Slums.
19 May 2010
EUROLAND: Merkel's Position Called "Moralistic Hysteria," Unsettles Markets.
BLOOMBERG/ German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s attempt to rein in speculators with a ban on naked short-selling is part of her proposals to gain control over “destructive” financial markets. But it is backfiring in debt and currency markets although the euro is up slightly from recent lows. Merkel's “... uncoordinated effort is counterproductive to the long-term survival of the euro,” says researcher Christopher Garman. “While it may temporarily alleviate what they see as the animal imagery of locus and wolfpack, or however else they describe speculators, it adds to a climate that’s becoming more uncertain by the day.” “Unless you have the U.K., United States and rest of Europe on board, then it’s a waste of time,” claims market analyst David Buik. “You’re asking people to look for trouble. It’s so ham fisted it’s laughable.”