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Greek banks 'to stay shut on Monday'
BBC News ^ | 6-28-2015 | BBC News

Posted on 06/28/2015 10:10:25 AM PDT by tcrlaf

Greece banks to stay closed on Monday, Piraeus Bank chief says, after emergency meeting in Athens

This breaking news story is being updated and more details will be published shortly

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: alexistsipras; bank; bankholiday; bankrun; bankruptcy; banks; default; derivatives; deutchebank; eu; europe; europeanunion; finance; greece; greececrisis; greecestockmarket; greek; nato; syriza
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To: LUV W

I believe that Soros is from Hungary.


121 posted on 06/28/2015 2:53:17 PM PDT by expat2
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To: caww
For Germany, the €58 billion loss is a drop in the bucket considering yearly German GDP is €4 TRILLION.
122 posted on 06/28/2015 2:54:20 PM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's economic cure)
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To: expat2

I doubt the contagion will spread. For two reasons: 1) European banks since 2011 have substantially bolstered their liquid asset reserves just for this contingency and 2) Spain, Italy and France have the agricultural and industrial base to produce their way out of a financial crisis.


123 posted on 06/28/2015 2:56:57 PM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's economic cure)
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To: RayChuang88

Yes, no big problem unless the contagion spreads to Spain, Italy,France. Then it would be a big problem for Germany and many other countries.


124 posted on 06/28/2015 2:59:05 PM PDT by expat2
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To: RayChuang88

Let’s hope you are right......


125 posted on 06/28/2015 3:00:11 PM PDT by expat2
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To: expat2
I think I'm right because unlike Spain, Italy and France, Greece doesn't have the industrial or agricultural base to produce their way out of an economic crisis.

Remember, Italian, Spanish and French agricultural exports are highly desired around the world, and all three countries make industrial goods wanted by many countries around the world, too. After all, the Airbus Group sells a lot of airliners, and they source parts from France, Italy, Spain, Germany, UK, etc.

126 posted on 06/28/2015 3:10:50 PM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's economic cure)
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To: grania

Germany and France have fought three great wars to build a United Europe, they will not give it up


127 posted on 06/28/2015 4:35:15 PM PDT by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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To: expat2; All

Nikkei 20,210.38 -495.77 -2.39%


128 posted on 06/28/2015 5:40:17 PM PDT by tcrlaf (They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....)
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To: tcrlaf

DOW futures are down about 250 right now.


129 posted on 06/28/2015 6:19:55 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (The Sun Never Sets on Liberal Idiocy)
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To: tcrlaf

Ping me to join the Surviving Socialism Ping List

130 posted on 06/28/2015 7:21:11 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion ( "Forward lies the crown, and onward is the goal.")
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To: tcrlaf

131 posted on 06/28/2015 8:24:04 PM PDT by spokeshave
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To: tcrlaf; All
What are the odds of Tsipras saying something like “...with our new partners in Russia and China”?

Not unlikely since Tsipras is a communist. The Russkies and Chicoms can have the lazy, worthless Greeks. They don't produce anything and expect stronger countries like Germany to feel so guilty about WWII that they'll continue to fund their cradle to grave welfare state. You guy are blaming the banks and the eeevil EU, but fact is the Greeks should never have been let into the club to begin with because they never actually met the standards for it. And since that time, the Greeks have done nothing but rack up as many debts as possible, not to invest in their economies, but to bribe the voters who were all too willing to vote themselves early retirements at the age of fifty.

132 posted on 06/28/2015 8:27:04 PM PDT by Greetings_Puny_Humans (I mostly come out at night... mostly.)
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To: NRx

“You can’t run a country that promises everyone a minimum standard of living and government pensions for all while no one pays taxes.”

Somebody better make sure Obama understands that! /s;)


133 posted on 06/28/2015 8:40:58 PM PDT by Frank_2001
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To: tcrlaf
I can't believe this. They're making such a big deal over 1.6 billion.

What am I missing?

134 posted on 06/28/2015 8:58:36 PM PDT by Tula Git (There IS a coup in America and it's on track and almost complete.)
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To: tcrlaf; All

TWITTER:

Athens we have been told that Atms will work after 1200 midday. And they will only dispense 60EU ($66USD) at a time


135 posted on 06/28/2015 10:53:25 PM PDT by tcrlaf (They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....)
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To: tcrlaf

The probability of Greece defaulting isn’t coming as a surprise. This isn’t like the collapse of the housing bubble which far too many financial houses never saw coming.

Lenders with exposure to Greece have had a long time to prepare for it. And Greece isn’t exactly a major economy. It will have some impact but nothing approaching the housing bubble.


136 posted on 06/28/2015 11:00:38 PM PDT by Pelham (Deo Vindice)
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To: Nextrush

Honestly, Greece has bred a culture of laziness and subversion of payment of legitimate taxes. This is the real problem. Socialist policies do this.


137 posted on 06/29/2015 3:29:42 AM PDT by ConservativeMind ("Humane" = "Don't pen up pets or eat meat, but allow infanticide, abortion, and euthanasia.")
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To: tcrlaf

How can you be off so much in two successive posts for such simple math? Your earlier post was bay an order of magnitude and this one is just bad subtraction (actually, both appear to have that as the root cause)?

Did you graduate from 0bama-school?


138 posted on 06/29/2015 3:45:00 AM PDT by ConservativeMind ("Humane" = "Don't pen up pets or eat meat, but allow infanticide, abortion, and euthanasia.")
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To: tcrlaf

Great time to visit Europe.


139 posted on 06/29/2015 4:42:00 AM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: ConservativeMind

Leftist socialist Greece is defying an even bigger leftist socialist entity called the European Union right now. At least someone is resisting like prisoners in Stalin’s Gulag including loyal Communists that were shipped there in purges.

The world government system being built imposes on everyone without distinction as to whether they are liberal, conservative or somewhere in the middle and it is wrong for its impositions from open borders for Amnesty to Gay Marriage without First Amendment protections for religious objectors........


140 posted on 06/29/2015 5:15:17 AM PDT by Nextrush ( FREEDOM IS EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS, DON'T BE PASTOR NIEMOLLER)
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