Nope! Same here mate I think she's much more charismatic than Bernanke... Can't help but love her!

I'm very curious about how this situation will play out in the next few months. So many factors are building up a huge amount of pressure on the EZ (unsustainably high E/U being just one of them)...

I'm from Italy and the situation doesn't really look very encouraging politically speaking: Berlusconi's party is literally blackmailing the rest of the government, so in the next few weeks the possibility of a government breakdown is real, even if ...

Just wait until Monday, hopefully everything will be a bit clearer

I'm having exactly the same impression, Draghi sounds definitely more dovish than usual...

yep, i totally agree... risk appetite will fall sharply during the next month... buying gold is one of the many options available to play this situation

very bad for the euro, not too late to jump on the train... if final results will be in line with these numbers, we (italians) will probably be back to the polls very soon... next 2 weeks are going to be a political roller coaster for italy

told you 1 hour ago, exit polls were AMAZINGLY optimistic... buy the 10-y german bond and sell the 10-y italian one... the move has already started but it's only the beginning... it's going to be a mess

and these are already official projections, not stupid exit polls... we're fucked -.-

grillo is a timebomb

i'm italian and i guarantee that it's going to be a mess in the next weeks, go long bund and/or short btp future at good prices while you can

Euro won't break up, it's an irreversible process. They have no other choice but to find a way to make it work better than it did up to this point.

IF and WHEN they'll intervene -> JPY down -> USD/JPY up

That's not too bad actually, considering what we've seen last week. In "normal conditions" (a.k.a. 1 year ago as a reference) you could expect a 5-year BTP to have a 3-3.5% yield...

It means that Italy has to pay 7.4% of interest on its 10-year government bonds to finance itself, and that's way too much expensive to bear... Big credit crunch incoming! Who will be the next Lehman? Unicredit? Or maybe a French bank? BNP?

Italy's 10-year yield 7.4%... let the fun begin!

It would be interesting to hear from some Germans how they feel about this. I think that our (Italian) fear of having to leave the EZ is not unreasoning, because despite the recent developments of the last few months, we are in an economic situation ...

You are right about that, Italy can count on exactly 2 things to boost his growth: luxury goods and tourism. Virtually it's not a poor country, nor is it destined to be. My doubts, though, are not about the potential of Italy, but they concern the ...

I'm Italian as well (though I'm living in Melbourne right now). If Italy didn't join the Euro 10 years ago, now it would probably be in the midst of a civil war, with stagflation reigning (zero growth and inflation at 20%). It was a very fortunate ...