Yields a 10 anos fecho 28/11/2014 e rating S&P:
Grécia: 8.33% B
Índia: 8.09% BBB-
Nova Zelândia: 3.92% AA
Austrália: 3.04% AAA
PORTUGAL: 2.85% BB
Estados Unidos: 2.17% AA+
Itália: 2.04% BBB
Espanha: 1.93% BBB
Portugal com rating "junk" paga menos em mercado secundário que a Austrália que tem triplo A ou a Nova Zelândia que tem duplo A.
A Grécia paga mais que a Índia, Espanha e Itália já pagam bem menos que os EUA.
O Banco Central Europeu (BCE) vai avaliar “no início do próximo ano” se é necessário avançar com mais estímulos monetários para aumentar a taxa de inflação na zona euro. A declaração de Mario Draghi, no final da última reunião do conselho de governadores de 2014, acompanhou a divulgação de estimativas “significativamente” mais baixas para a inflação e para o crescimento económico.
Natalie Jaresko, a US citizen, who has worked in Ukraine for more than 20 years after holding various economic positions in the US. State Department, is Ukraine's new Finance Minister.
A agência de notação financeira reviu em baixa a qualidade da dívida soberana de Itália, passando a sua classificação de ‘BBB’ para ‘BBB-’. Ou seja, passou para o último nível de investimento. Se descer mais um degrau, entra na categoria especulativa, o chamado "lixo".
Western countries made a 'mistake' three years ago, when they intervened in Libya to overthrow the Gaddafi regime, according to Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs. The statement came amid reports of the US discussing airstrikes on Libya's territory.
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Meanwhile, the US has plans to expand its anti Islamic State military campaign to Libya, The Times reported on Friday. Amid western countries' concerns over Libya's political instability, that could possibly be used by the IS terrorists in their favor, a top US general has confirmed the Islamic State runs jihadist training camps in eastern Libya.
Junk bonds have financed the U.S. shale boom, and now the sharp drop in oil prices could lead to a massive wave of defaults on that high-yield debt.
Should oil prices fall below $65 per barrel and stay there for the next three years, Tarek Hamid, a high-yield energy analyst at J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., estimates that up to 40% of all energy junk bonds could default over the next several years.
Essentially, the trade involves Venezuela securitizing debts owed under its $3.5bn a year subsidised oil program, called Petrocaribe.
In this case, that reportedly means selling the $4bn owed by the Dominican Republic for $1.75bn to Goldman Sachs. The DR will then issue fresh bonds, and with the proceeds buy the debt off Goldman. The US investment bank is also reportedly holding conversations about doing the same for Jamaica’s Petrocaribe debts. Along with Nicaragua, these two countries account for $10bn of the total $14.5bn owed to Venezuela under the 13-country program that, in the past, has bought Caracas valuable support in fora such as the United Nations and the Organisation of American States. But not for much longer, it seems.
Petroleum subsidies account for one-quarter of India’s 2.6 trillion rupee ($42.4 billion) subsidies bill.
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Over the weekend, he moved to eliminate state controls on diesel prices for the first time in over a decade, while also increasing prices for natural gas. The change “should offer fiscal savings over time that can be used for more productive uses, such as public investment,” wrote HSBC economists Frederic Neumann and Prithviraj Srinivas in a report published on Monday.
The price plunge has spurred China, the world’s second-biggest importer after the U.S., to accelerate bookings of oil cargoes.
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The number of supertankers sailing toward China’s ports matched a record on Oct. 17 and is still close to that level now. The country added 35 million barrels to its inventories in the past three months as the nation fills its strategic petroleum reserves, OPEC said yesterday.