FX comment: Beware Greeks bearing debts

Judgment day will come – and not just for Greece.

While a mountain of debt threatens to wreak havoc with Athens, it seems the Greek government – or at least part of its machinery – has been using some Bond-style (that’s Bond, James Bond) tactics to find out who’s got them by the short and curlies.

Last Friday, Athens newspaper To Vima quoted a report from the Greek National Intelligence Service purportedly identifying hedge funds Brevan Howard and Moore Capital, as well as Fidelity International and Paulson & Co, as the main players shorting Greek debt.

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