AUTOREFRESH 
France/Germany remain at odds over IMF for Greece
By Jamie Coleman || March 19, 2010 at 14:12 GMT
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Reuters quotes a French government source as saying talk of an IMF loan for Greece is premature. France wants to put a priority on a European solution for the Greek crisis.
Technical aid from the IMF is fine, the source says.
Germany has been far more open to having Greece go to the IMF as that would not violate the EU treaties (and it would take them off the hook financially)…
It’s like, France would love to give Greeks tons of deutschmarks, pardon, euros for a bailout, but Germany objects ? No wonder. Btw, isn’t France right after the PIIGS relative to debt/GDP rankings.
good morning jamie. my eur/usd hedge @ 3535 just popped. looks like 3520 stops are holding for the minute. jst watching to see which way i want to cut. any advise on your home front thanks
Significant plunge in AUDUSD and AUDJPY in the past one hour. Looks like a support in AUD is broken.
If the former french pm, de villepin, is to be believed, sarkozy is a crook who takes money on arms deals (like the recent one where france sold attack subs to russia) and stashes the loot .
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jan/28/france
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/angola/6448236/Francois-Mitterrands-son-convicted-in-Angola-arms-smuggling-case.html
Going to the imf would empower his other 2012 presidential rival strauss-kahn, who currently heads the imf. Another theory is that because french banks hold more of the greek debt, they are keener to ensure that greece doesn’t go bust.
Foreign minister, i believe…don’t think he was PM…not for long, if he was…
he was chirac’s prime minister for a couple of years 2k5-2k7…
The mind has a funny way of blocking out information it finds distasteful…
morning rag following aud/usd down and gonna scoop up some long positions @ the bottom of the stroke. looks like it is running for 9100 and then 9050. there is some minor support just above 9100 good trading!
The next couple of trading days, could be a really good opportunity, to get long aud/yen.
Mike check out the 300 linear weighted moving average on both hourly and 4 hourly Aud/Jpy
So are you thinking that buying on that hourly bounce off of that MA is a good bet?