The claim by strident non-governmental organisations, that the EU was intent on prising open ACP markets to satisfy its own commercial interests, was always overblown.
But analysts said that in the case of Citigroup, interest rate fears were overblown.
The bank also fears that lower short-term rates would do little to repair Europe's economic problems, because they would raise inflationary expectations and thus long-term interest rates.All this seems overblown.
I believe worries about a sudden increase in interest rates are greatly overblown; but, out of an abundance of caution, the government could exchange say 5% of its debt every year, unless and until excessive inflationary pressures appeared.
Neil M. Barofsky, the former inspector general for the Treasury's bank bailout fund, said fears that banks would not cooperate were overblown because it was "in their best interest to cooperate to avoid criminal prosecution and to keep their license".
However, very modest valuation metrics and the possibility that the negatives have been overblown might attract enough early-year buying interest to produce a reasonable January effect in COCO.
Except for Mexico, the biggest ones have sold off, on what Gruber calls overblown fears about the impact of pending U.S. interest rate hikes, which could hurt the appeal of high-yielding Latin debt.
Although this system is specifically designed for detecting overblown flute sounds by measuring energy in the region of interest, from the experimental results, it is possible to say that the system does not capture all existing spectral differences between the sounds from each fingering.
In Kim's view these stocks already reflect fears of tightening interest rates; the question becomes whether those fears are overblown.
Koncz said the fight was overblown and that he always operates with Pacquiao's best interests at the forefront.
