Showing posts with label Irish Government bonds. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Irish Government bonds. Show all posts
Wednesday, July 3, 2013

3/7/2013: Holdings of Irish Government Bonds: May 2013

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The Central Bank of Ireland released the data for holdings of Irish Government bonds for May 2013. Alas, these are not well-defined, as on...
Sunday, April 1, 2012

1/4/2012: Flightless dodo - the Hunt of Chief Noonan

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I am not usually prone on updating my past posts, but the Promissory Notes 'deal' announced last week by Minister Noonan just keeps...
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Thursday, March 29, 2012

29/3/2012: Promissory Note 'deal' 2012

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Trying to sort out the convoluted 'deal' announced by the Minister today and juggle two kids, plus struggle against the computer o...
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Monday, November 28, 2011

28/11/2011: Updated data for 2007-2010 Government Debt: Ireland

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The CSO issued today updated - revised - figures for General Government Debt for Ireland. here's the core changes: As you can see, t...
Saturday, March 19, 2011

19/03/2011: Updated probabilities of default

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Updated probabilities of default and spreads on Irish bonds. As usual, a preventative disclaimer - this is just simple mathematical estimate...
Wednesday, February 16, 2011

16/02/2011: Heading for another round of crisis pressures?

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Two nice charts, lest we forget where the crisis is at: Greek 10y sovereign bonds: And Irish 10y sovereign bonds Both courtesy of Goldcore, ...
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Saturday, November 13, 2010

Economics 13/11/10: EFSF, Ireland and a matter of contagion

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let me ask the following question: if Ireland is nearing (or already in - see here ) a bailout from the EFSF, what does this imply to the ov...
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Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Economics 9/10/10: Bond market comparatives

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Another day, two tables courtesy of CMA ... Greece improves, Ireland... well: CPD refers to the priced probability of default. 40.83% for Ir...
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Monday, November 1, 2010

Economics 2/11/10: Spot the odd ones out

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As of yesterday's close, implied probability of default based on CDS spreads and spreads themselves are: Source: CMA.
Thursday, August 5, 2010

Economics 5/8/10: Good news - we might be 'one-off' broke?

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Good morning, folks. As a day starter, please take a note: We are bust! Yesterday’s Exchequer returns are a worthy reading on the theme of t...
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Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Economics 28/04/2010: 'Duin de rite ting'

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A brilliant chart from one of the readers (hat tip to Jonathan): May Toyota forgive me a pun, but is this a stuck (downward) accelerator pro...
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Monday, November 30, 2009

Economics 30/11/2009: Budget scope

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For those of you who missed my yesterday's article in the Sunday Times , here it is in un-edited version. SUMMARY Note: updated below f...
Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Economics 21/10/2009: Ireland = the most leveraged SPV on Earth?

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And so we now learn than Nama beast has mutated into a high-risk derivative game with ghost investors, imaginary assets and ...
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Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Economics 30/09/2009: Global Financial Stability Report

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Update: There is an interesting note in one of today's stockbrokers' reports: "AIB is to review its selection process for a su...
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Thursday, July 2, 2009

Economics 02/07/2009: Downgrade on Irish debt

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Moody's downgraded Ireland from top Aaa government-bond ratings one notch to Aa1 (hat tip to PMD) saying that Ireland's policy respo...
Thursday, June 4, 2009

Economics 04/06/2009: Exchequer returns for May

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First order of business today is to say "Happy Birthday, Jen" to my (much) better half - "I miss you here in Moscow!" Se...
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Friday, May 29, 2009

Economics 29/05/2009: NAMA debate: Part 2

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Full text of Oireachtas debate on NAMA is available here . But for some commentary-worthy passages, consider the following: Deputy Bri...
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