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The Bond Auction

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  • #2
    Sky King
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,431 ✭✭✭Sky King


    It left me shaken, but not stirred.


  • #3
    Fr_Dougal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,166 ✭✭✭Fr_Dougal


    WikiHow wrote: »
    It is a start anyway, Noonan was happy with it.
    http://http://www.rte.ie/news/business/2014/0107/496336-bond-sale/

    Thank you for that in-depth analysis.


  • #4
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    Why Miss Moneypenny, are you trying to seduce me?


  • #5
    mbur
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 521 ✭✭✭mbur


    WikiHow wrote: »
    It is a start anyway, Noonan was happy with it.
    www.rte.ie/news/business/2014/0107/496336-bond-sale/

    Fixed :-)


  • #6
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,689 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    Noonan does what he's told these days I suspect.


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  • #7
    Wacker The Attacker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,473 ✭✭✭Wacker The Attacker


    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    Why Miss Moneypenny, are you trying to seduce me?


    Yes miss funnyfanny


  • #8
    darkpagandeath
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24,465 ✭✭✭✭darkpagandeath


    Let me guess the ECB buys ups some to make Irish bonds look a bit more attractive And that lad in Saudi cap in hand trying to flog them to the Saudi's.... Sure we don't really care about the slave labour human rights abuse ... buy our bonds ...


  • #9
    Geuze
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,262 ✭✭✭✭Geuze


    The ECB has not been buying Irish bonds.


  • #10
    Muise...
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,512 ✭✭✭Muise...


    Has the bidding started on the Aston Martin yet?


  • #11
    Sir Arthur Daley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,720 ✭✭✭Sir Arthur Daley


    Muise... wrote: »
    Has the bidding started on the Aston Martin yet?
    Yes its at €22.69


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  • #12
    wretcheddomain
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,094 ✭✭✭wretcheddomain


    WikiHow wrote: »
    Yes its at €22.69

    Three fiddy actually.

    I'm expecting the Negativobots to flood the thread talking about bankers, Merkel and the NWO.


  • #13
    Daqster
    Closed Accounts Posts: 723 ✭✭✭Daqster


    I heard Michael Noonan called a meeting regarding the Bond auction and when Joan Burton walked into the room, he turned her around, slapped her on the arse and said: 'Run along Joan, man talk".


  • #14
    Bellview
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,719 ✭✭✭Bellview


    Can they pay off high cost debt early as 3.5% seems goo


  • #15
    mbur
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 521 ✭✭✭mbur


    Geuze wrote: »
    The ECB has not been buying Irish bonds.
    Any proof to back that bold statement? A link to the list of purchasers perhaps:rolleyes:


  • #16
    Sir Arthur Daley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,720 ✭✭✭Sir Arthur Daley


    mbur wrote: »
    Any proof to back that bold statement? A link to the list of purchasers perhaps:rolleyes:
    Jackie Healy Rae and Sons.;)


  • #17
    dxhound2005
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,350 ✭✭✭✭dxhound2005


    mbur wrote: »
    Any proof to back that bold statement? A link to the list of purchasers perhaps:rolleyes:

    It should be up to the person who made the original statement to prove it. A link to prove the ECB is buying Irish Bonds perhaps.


  • #18
    Sir Arthur Daley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,720 ✭✭✭Sir Arthur Daley


    Geuze wrote: »
    The ECB has not been buying Irish bonds.
    Maybe it was meant ESB?:rolleyes:


  • #19
    Fred Swanson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,730 ✭✭✭✭Fred Swanson


    This post has been deleted.


  • #20
    mbur
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 521 ✭✭✭mbur


    dxhound2005 wrote: »
    It should be up to the person who made the original statement to prove it. A link to prove the ECB is buying Irish Bonds perhaps.
    Here is David Williams take on what is really going on

    Legally, the ECB is debarred from buying 10-year bonds, but it will get around this by buying shorter-dated bonds (government short-term IOUs). Because the threat of deflation is very real all over Europe, the ECB knows it is going to have to prevent this. It will do this is by buying government IOUs that at present sit on the balance sheets of the banks and give the banks cash in return, keeping interest rates very low. Thereby it hopes to compel the banks to lend.


  • #21
    TheLastMohican
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,837 ✭✭✭TheLastMohican


    I'm sure Bill Gates has clued in advisers:

    The Sunday Independent reported that “ the world’s richest man, Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates, has steamed in to buy Irish bonds as the “threat of default was extinguished”.
    The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation – a philanthropic organisation set up to disburse the Gates’s wealth – owns nearly $20 million worth of Irish bonds, the paper said without naming a source.
    “Those bonds have been a spectacular investment, returning close to 10 per cent over the last year,” it said.


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