Thursday, April 17, 2014

17/4/2014: Toothless Shark? EU's Banking Union

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EU has been pushing hard on the road toward the Banking Union (BU) with recent weeks seeing completion of the agreement and vote in the EU...

17/4/2014: Savings and Income in Ireland: ILCU new survey data

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New survey from the ILCU on income and savings conditions for Irish households shows: 1,696,000 people in Ireland have EUR100 or less l...
Wednesday, April 16, 2014

16/4/2014: Tearing Up Ukraine Well Before Crimea

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Per Foreign Affairs (hardly a pro-Russian platform): two maps of two consecutive Governments in Ukraine showing the drivers of national ri...
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16/4/2014: EU Parliament Passes Bail-ins, SRM and MiFID2

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So the EU Parliament voted in the three proposals relating to banking sector 'reforms' in the EU. These included SRM set up - a...
Tuesday, April 15, 2014

15/4/2014: Flat Tax for Italy? Ask PIN...

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Last week Italy sold EUR3.5 billion in 2016 Bonds today at an average yield 0.93% and with bid cover of 1.41, delivering a record low yield...
Friday, April 11, 2014

10/4/2014: The curse of Long-Term Joblessness

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This is an unedited version of my Sunday Times column from March 30, 2014 The unemployment crisis has not passed unnoticed in many hou...
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Thursday, April 10, 2014

10/4/2014: Irish Composite Activity Indicator (CAI) based on PMIs: Q1 2014

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Based on monthly PMI data, here is the blog-exclusive quarterly Composite PMI series. These take quarterly averages for Manufacturing an...

10/4/2014: Game of Chicken: Ukraine-Debts-Russia-Gas-Europe...

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What's the story about Ukraine's gas debts? Here are some facts as reported by the Russian Minister for Energy Aleksander Novak an...
Monday, April 7, 2014

7/4/2014: Eurocoin March 2014: Q1 Growth Estimate at 1.4% y/y

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I have not updated stats for Eurocoin leading growth indicator for euro area economy for some time now, so here's the latest. In...

7/4/2014: EU's latests dis-inspiring growth forecasts...

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So German Ifo upgraded euro area growth forecasts for 2014 and the numbers are... well... dis-inspiring? "The Eurozone recovery is ...
Sunday, April 6, 2014

6/4/2014: IMF forecasts of unemployment; 'peripheral' countries

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Note to my previously posted Sunday Times column from March 23, 2014 and to my Sunday Times column from March 30, 2014 (still to be poste...
Saturday, April 5, 2014

5/4/2014: Markets do come back… some faster others slower…

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A very neat summary table showing equity markets responses to major past shocks, starting with 1941 Pearl Harbor attack. Most interestin...