EURUSD Soars On Reuters Report That Greek Deal Is Reached… Which Is Same Deal As In July 2011

 
Yeah, we had the same response as our readers when we saw that freak move in the EURUSD. Apparently, despite the fact that absolutely nothing has been resolved,Reuters just ran a headline that "Euro zone reaches deal on second Greek bailout package." And that is all it took for the EURUSD headline scanning algos to surge by 60 pips. That there nothing substantial in it, or that this is merely a rephrasing of the actual Bailout 2 announcement from before, is irrelevant. Here is what the actual Reuters report said.

Euro zone finance ministers struck a deal early on Tuesday for a second bailout programme for Greece that will involve financing of 130 billion euros and aims to cut Greece's debts to 121 percent of GDP by 2020, EU officials said.

"The financial volume (of the Greek package) is 130 billion euros and debt-to-GDP (will be) 121 percent. Now it's down to work on the statement," one official involved in the negotiations told Reuters.

Another official confirmed that the financing would total 130 billion euros with the aim of reducing Greece's debts from around 160 percent of GDP now to 121 percent by 2020.

So just the little matter of the statement, which is what has be en the actually stopping block for the past 6 months. And incidentally, the broad strokes of this announcement is a carbon copy of the second bailout deal reached back in the summer of 2011. Inother words, there is nothing substantial to this, and is merely boilerplate. But it was good enough to fool the algos. Now the only question is how long until this latest and greatest deal concoction falls apart again, and the whole farce is repeated all over.
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