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CNBC Comment: Portugal’s banking crisis sends it back to cloud cuckoo land July 14, 2014 Can it be three years since I was last in Cloud Cuckoo Land – sorry, I mean Portugal – talking about the fundamentals in one of the former problem children of the European debt crisis? It seems to have flown by. It’s good to know, though, that last week’s risk hiccup over a medium-sized [...]
Banking tragedy fails to lift market players August 4, 2008 You could say the UK banks reporting season is turning into a comedy of errors but perhaps a Shakespearean tragedy would be more apt. It was an awful first act for the sector last week but the drama will reach its crescendo this week as we await downbeat numbers from HSBC, Barclays and RBS. The [...]