Hopes that Asia is going to be the new engine of the global economy are overblown at this point, cautions Stephen Roach, chairman at Morgan Stanley Asia. He tells CNBC’s Martin Soong, Karen Tso & Sri Jegarajah why.
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"The Greek offer is not sufficient and they have to go away to come up with a revised plan," said a spokesman for the German Finance Ministry. The Greeks must first have a plan that satisfies the Germans which this comment states they clearly don't yet and then the Greek Parliament will vote on it this weekend. This said, whatever package gets voted on in Greece is basically an up or down vote on euro membership so we are entering another uncertain weekend for global markets. A failed vote will likely lead to a hard default which may be what...
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June 30th, 2009 at 9:18 pm
I heard a gentleman on Bloomberg radio talking about Asian equities and coined the phrase “bamboo shoots” cf. “green shoots”, pretty insane…