"View from the trading room floor
“The Greek bloke’s resigned. He’s run rings round ‘em.”
That was how one IG trader was overheard explaining the news of the resignation of Greek finance minister
Yanis Varoufakis following Sunday’s referendum, as he chatted on the phone in early trading this morning,
writes Simon Goodley.
To say the City is surprised by the news coming out of
Greece is an understatement. Like eurozone officials it had expected that last week’s trailer of capital controls would be enough to get the country to vote yes, and IG priced a yes vote as a 60% chance last week.
So what now? Chris Beauchamp, senior market analyst at IG, said: “[German stock market] the Dax has opened down but is surging back - much like it did last Monday and much like the euro is doing. It is coming back on Varoufakis’s resignation - possibly more hope than expectation, but if you take out the most irritating man in the room then you might get a more reasonable response from Germany and France”.