{"id":22115,"date":"2011-07-05T17:47:06","date_gmt":"2011-07-05T21:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/fx\/?p=22115"},"modified":"2011-07-05T17:47:06","modified_gmt":"2011-07-05T21:47:06","slug":"greek-loan-disbursement-keeps-risk-appetite-elevated-rba-to-hold-its-rate-meeting-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2011\/07\/05\/greek-loan-disbursement-keeps-risk-appetite-elevated-rba-to-hold-its-rate-meeting-tonight\/","title":{"rendered":"Greek Loan Disbursement Keeps Risk Appetite Elevated; RBA to Hold its Rate Meeting Tonight"},"content":{"rendered":"<table style=\"width: 100%;\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top;\" width=\"12%\" align=\"left\" valign=\"top\"><\/td>\n<td width=\"88%\" valign=\"top\">\n<table style=\"width: 100%;\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"1066\" height=\"276\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"blogheading1\" valign=\"top\">Greek Loan Disbursement Keeps Risk Appetite Elevated; RBA to Hold its Rate Meeting Tonight<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"author\" valign=\"top\">by Richard Cox<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"blogtxt\" valign=\"top\">Last Saturday, finance ministers from the Eurozone met to complete  the quarterly transfer of loan funds to Greece.\u00a0 The IMF will hold a  similar meeting later this week (most likely on Friday). \u00a0For the most  part, this was not a surprise, since we did see the Greek parliament  successfully pass its austerity vote last week but the Euro and equities  have remained supported so far this week.\u00a0 The end of last week saw the  S &amp; P 500 close 1.44% higher on Friday, following the daily close  in the Nikkei 225 above the key psychological 10000 level (the first  time this has happened in two months).<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the positives seen in the Greek story, there were also  strong expectations for June\u2019s US ISM data, which rose to 55.3 (against  expectations of 52.0). \u00a0The EUR\/USD is currently seen at 1.4510-1.4580  while the USD\/JPY is ranging at 80.70-80.90. \u00a0Today will see no major US  macro data today, as the markets are closed for the Independence Day  holiday.<\/p>\n<p>During the meeting between Eurozone finance ministers decided not to  design a new Greek aid plan for the long term.\u00a0 Most expect this to take  shape at some point, and will take precedence the initial agreement  from May 2010.\u00a0 The role of the private sector continues to be a point  of contention, and markets will remain attentive to any news relating to  this aspect of the agreement.\u00a0 There is a high probability that there  will be headlines explaining greater detail in the next few weeks.<\/p>\n<p>The Greek Finance Minister (Venizelos) made statements, describing  the length of time that will be required to reach a decision, and gave  the middle of September as a current target.\u00a0 The German Finance  Minister (Schaeuble) announced that &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the original post <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spreadbetting.com\/news\/2011\/07\/04\/greek-loan-disbursement-keeps-risk-appetite-elevated-rba-to-hold-its-rate-meeting-tonight\/\">here<\/a> along with explanation about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spreadbetting.com\/ig-index.html\">ig index<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greek Loan Disbursement Keeps Risk Appetite Elevated; RBA to Hold its Rate Meeting Tonight by Richard Cox Last Saturday, finance ministers from the Eurozone met to complete the quarterly transfer of loan funds to Greece.\u00a0 The IMF will hold a similar meeting later this week (most likely on Friday). \u00a0For the most part, this was &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2011\/07\/05\/greek-loan-disbursement-keeps-risk-appetite-elevated-rba-to-hold-its-rate-meeting-tonight\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Greek Loan Disbursement Keeps Risk Appetite Elevated; RBA to Hold its Rate Meeting Tonight&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}