Showing posts with label Euro area peripherals. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Euro area peripherals. Show all posts
Monday, February 2, 2015

2/2/15: Greek Primary Surplus: A Steep Hill to Climb

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My comment for Expresso (January 31, 2015, pages 8-9) on Greece: Greece has undertaken an unprecedented level of budgetary adjustments ...
Friday, May 16, 2014

16/5/2014: Summary of euro area 'peripherals' risk ratings

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A neat summary of sovereign risk ratings by the majors and Euromoney Credit Risk: Rankings on the left reflect country position in ri...
Wednesday, May 7, 2014

7/5/2014: Eurostat backs out of Greek data mess

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Here's Ifo Institute press release on Eurostat and data manipulation for Greece: I have covered the issue here:  http://trueeco...
Saturday, April 26, 2014

25/4/2014: A stretch of numbers here... a bond sale there... Greek Deficit in 2013

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This week we had the data release by Eurostat showing the fiscal position of the euro area sovereigns for 2013, followed by the statement ...
Friday, April 25, 2014

25/4/2014: ECB, Denmark & Negative Rates, 'Peripherals' & Russia: today's links

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Rumours mills been busy of late with all the talk about ECB doing 'whatever it takes' to get inflation going again. See this for e...
Monday, September 23, 2013

23/9/2013: Everyone is doing more of the same, alongside German voters

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And here we have it, folks: Germany votes for status quo, markets seem to be voting for the same... Meanwhile, ECB is promising to ...
Monday, March 25, 2013

25/3/2013: The False Vacuum of the EU: a must-read essay

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On rare occasions does one come across an essay so brilliantly argued and provocative in its depth. A must-read: Nucleating the False Vacu...
Thursday, November 22, 2012

22/11/2012: Net cash - EU27

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Via zerohedge. In case you wonder who funds who in EU in 2012: Do note that all peripheral economies of the EA are net recipients o...
Saturday, November 10, 2012

10/11/2012: 'Special' case redux?

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Just in case Angela Merkel reads EU Commission research... here's a chart summarizing the 'structural' adjustments to-date cou...
Tuesday, September 25, 2012

25/9/2012: One hell of a mess...

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A quick quote from the recent Citi report on euro area economics, relating to ESM (emphasis is mine): "Of the €500bn, €100bn is ea...
Sunday, September 9, 2012

9/9/2012: September Euro area bonds supply

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September 2012 bonds supply and auctions for euro area countries (via Morgan Stanley ):