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German Newspaper: “The Greek Exit Is A Done Deal”

The loud sounds of the left-politician Tsipras were just the straw that has brought the camel’s back. In the EU, the ECB and the IMF have been completed with the issue. Greece must get out of the euro, it is generally agreed across all sectors. The information contained in the former central banker and technocratic Prime Minister Lucas Papademos had delivered. He had enough time to convince the one hand, the full extent of the calamity, and also by the unwillingness of the parties to save money. Basically, his tenure was a fact-finding mission on behalf of the EU. His conclusion: Mission Impossible. About the consequences, there are different views: the central bankers do not want to pay more because they see that the whole is a bottomless pit. The politicians, led by Angela Merkel reluctant yet. As always there are the politicians advocate the status quo, because they fear nothing more than the unknown. And there are unknowns with a Euro exit any quantities.

It begins with the question: How does it work really practical? An outlet to see the EU treaties before any more than one eviction. For safety reasons, both the ECB and the Bundesbank formed crisis teams that are preparing now as the commanders on various contingencies. A small consolation is believed to have, because the debt incision was made, and therefore actually is a direct contamination of the banks as rather unlikely. Although this may not confirm officially Banker: The unofficial interpretation is that the risk of infection by the average debt “significantly reduced” was.

Most debts are now in the public sector – ie the ECB and the IMF. In the case of a state bankruptcy of Greece on the Target 2 system, the German Bundesbank would be taken immediately. Altogether, it is so appreciated, are the Greeks with 200 billion euros at the ECB and the IMF in debt. Therefore, all of which are currently very careful with scenarios: One does not want to be in the cards look. And as even the most amicable divorce in the end always haggled over the cost. Even the ECB and the IMF want to see their money again. They need the cooperation of the Greeks. A representative of the public sector: “When it comes to the discharge, the creditors will negotiate with the debtor. The creditors have no interest that the debtor is no longer on the legs. ”

However, the debtor to cooperate with the creditors, some skirmishes will be fought. The Greeks would say, then we throw it out once – we do not pay but not our debt.

This game can not last for long. Since Greece can take no money in the capital markets, Greece must cooperate with the Troika. Without money, the country is very fast at the end: it can pay its civil servants no longer afford no energy, public life threatens to spiral out of control.

Right here wants to start the Troika: The next installment is due in June, there will be only when the Greeks come up with a fairly reasonable exit plan. Until then, the ECB can keep up with their financial instruments, the Greek banks so far over water, not everything falls apart.

At the same time it is hoped the troika that the ESM is surprising, because then enough money is available to prevent the contamination of other states. Because you can answer a question no one, like a of involved banker says: “We all know not whether it comes after the withdrawal of the Greeks to a domino effect or whether it really is the great liberation has been.” There is always some require “discretionary action” of the ECB to keep the situation under control. In plain German: As some will have to be printed on money, so the crash can not go but even the whole euro zone in the air.

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Beware the Quant Models

Bulls may get weak-kneed looking at SocGen’s latest cross asset quant research as it is particularly bearish. Note the sum of the signals: “Our Sentiment Indicator dropped to almost zero one week ago, and has failed to pick up.”

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Eurobonds Rejected at Stupid European Summit

New French leader, Hollande, had some choice words, regarding tonight’s stupid meeting.

‘Britain is against everything’

some countries were totally hostile to Eurobonds. I was not alone in defending Eurobonds

two types of populism. In north citizens do not want to give any more; in south do not want to be subjected to more austerity

Germany did not see Eurobonds as helping growth. I favour it for new debt, not old debt

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Debt Crisis: Live

While the EU leaders discuss eurobonds during a six-hour working dinner in Brussels, three The Telegraph reporters live blog the event.

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Mother Nature – One More Reason the Pullback is Not Over

Greg Harmon posts some commentary and technical analysis which makes a compelling case for the pullback to continue. He writes:

The weekly chart of the S&P 500, $SPX, below has been stripped down to easily show the seasonality in the Index that has been visible since the the Financial meltdown. And the story does not look like a happy ending for it this summer.

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Is this a Fucking Joke? ISAF DROPS CANDY and KILLS 51 KIDS DOING IT

Please, I am begging for someone to fact check this. Please do not tell me we’ve been killing Afghan kids for years by dropping our stupid fucking candy bars on them!!! This shit makes me angry as fuck.

Approximately 1.4 million M&Ms were to be delivered via Container Delivery System in a single package with a weight of 1500 lbs. Due to a malfunction in the static line, the parachute failed to deploy and the container crashed through the roof of a local school at nearly 100 miles per hour.

Upon impact, the force of the rapidly settling candies caused the sides to explode outward, causing what physics professor Dr. Rosella Schwartz described as, “essentially a 360 degree anti-personnel mine full of chocolate flechettes.”

By “flechettes”, Schwartz is referring to the M&Ms’ candy shells, which shattered and spalled upon entering the bodies of the victims and also caused more numerous and severe secondary injuries.

Dr. Manuel Velez of the Red Cross, one of the first medical personnel at the site of the impact, had a similar assessment of the candy shells’ damage.

“I’ve seen a lot of injuries inflicted on civilians by military ordnance, but this was much worse,” Velez said, stooping to change the bandages on one of the victims while pointing out the many blue, green, and yellow splotches.

“The worst were the peanut M&Ms. The soft chocolate acted as a sabot around the peanuts, so basically these things were candy-coated penetrator rounds.”

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NTAP IS GETTING FUCKING DESTROYED

NetApp beats by $0.03, reports revs in-line; guides Q1 EPS below consensus, revs below consensus (32.86 -0.44)
Reports Q4 (Apr) earnings of $0.66 per share, $0.03 better than the Capital IQ Consensus Estimate of $0.63; revenues rose 19.0% year/year to $1.7 bln vs the $1.68 bln consensus. Co issues downside guidance for Q1, sees EPS of $0.34-0.39 vs. $0.59 Capital IQ Consensus Estimate; sees Q1 revs of $1.4-1.5 bln vs. $1.61 bln Capital IQ Consensus Estimate.

Down 25%+

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Social Media Rides Again: Pandora Beats Big- $P

Pandora Media beats by $0.08, beats on revs; guides Q2 EPS below consensus, revs in-line; guides FY13 EPS above consensus, revs above consensus
Reports Q1 (Apr) loss of $0.09 per share, $0.08 better than the Capital IQ Consensus Estimate of ($0.17); revenues rose 57.5% year/year to $80.3 mln vs the $74.37 mln consensus. hours: Total listener hours grew 92% to approximat billion for the first quarter of fiscal 2013, compared to approximately 1.6 billion for the first quarter of fiscal 2012. Co issues mixed guidance for Q2, sees EPS of ($0.05)-(0.03) vs. ($0.02) Capital IQ Consensus Estimate; sees Q2 revs of $99-101 mln vs. $100.52 mln Capital IQ Consensus Estimate. Co issues upside guidance for FY13, sees EPS of ($0.11)-($0.07) vs. ($0.15) Capital IQ Consensus Estimate; sees FY13 revs of $420-427 mln vs. $415.92 mln Capital IQ Consensus Estimate.

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The Markets Make an Amazing Full Retard Turn Around

After being down nearly 190 bones on the DOW news out of Spain helped to turn our markets around. We had good news in the housing market and from some company earnings, but nothing could stop the markets from going down until late this afternoon Spain announced that they would inject $11.3 billion into Bankia.

Then there were some rumors that the EU is going to keep Greece in the Euro.

This news was good enough to take markets back to positive ground despite continued worries over Greece.

Low volume asshat fuckery…..but we will take it !

DOW down 6

NASDAQ up 11

S&P up 2

Oil down $1.46

Gold down $16

Taste the rainbow of this insane market….

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Bribery Rises as Corporations Hunt for Growth

“LONDON, May 23 (Reuters) – A growing number of senior executives around the world are willing to pay bribes to win or keep business, as the hunt for growth supersedes concerns over ethics and regulatory fines, according to a survey published on Wednesday.

Ernst & Young said in its annual global fraud survey that the number of top executives at leading firms who said they would be willing to pay cash to secure business – particularly as they expand into new markets – had risen to 15 percent from 9 percent this year.”

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