The HIBOR continued to edge up after the US bail-out package was announced.
The budget needs to be passed in order for funds to be released from the EU-IMF bail-out package for Ireland.
Beyond that, the outlook is cloudy, especially since euro-zone leaders are talking about rejigging Greece's second bail-out package, agreed last July.
Last week was one big build-up to a supposedly massive new bail-out package that would span bank recapitalization, sovereign debt purchases and other measures.
Those arguments may have weighed heavily with both Barack Obama, the president-elect, and the Democrats in Congress, who are moving towards sanctioning a bail-out package.
Until a deal on private-sector losses is finalised and implemented, investors cannot rely on a second bail-out package that will keep Greece in the euro.
Ordinary Kuwaitis are wary not only of further dithering over such things as a planned bail-out package for financial institutions hit by the global recession and an oft-delayed mega-project to develop new oilfields.
His influence behind the scenes seems to have been negative: western bankers in Moscow suspect that chummy relations between members of his court and the tycoons helped shape the worst bits of the current package, especially the bank bail-out.
If the German parliament approves the second Greek rescue package, if the euro zone's bail-out fund is beefed up, if tougher fiscal monitoring is endorsed by the European Parliament, maybe the line can hold.
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Many Germans were horrified to discover that the EU rescue package for Greece last year helped to bail out public-sector workers who could retire in their mid-50s on almost full pay.
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With Congress returning to pass another stimulus package, Mr Obama pressed Mr Bush on an immediate bail-out of Detroit's troubled carmakers.
In November 2010, Ireland and the EU agreed a financial rescue package worth 85bn euros, ending weeks of speculation about a bail-out.
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