Monday, December 22, 2014

22/12/2014: Elvira Nabiullina, the Rouble’s last line of defence

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Irish Independent on Elvira Nabiullina at the helm of the Central Bank of Russia (with comments from myself):  http://www.independent.ie/b...

22/12/2014: Sell-Side Research: Pressures and Changes

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My post for LearnSignal blog on sell-side research: regulatory pressures and changing environment  http://blog.learnsignal.com/?p=136
Sunday, December 21, 2014

21/12/2014: Planning Permissions Q3 2014: Being Un-dead ≠ Being Alive

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This week, there were some champagne-popping media headlines about planning permissions print for Q3 2014 released by the CSO. So what...

21/12/2014: World Languages: Interactive Map

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Almost Economics, but still more  WLASze: Weekend Link on Arts, Sciences and zero economics : A fascinating mapping of world languages by ...
Saturday, December 20, 2014

20/12/2014: Remembering that Debt Pile on Our Shoulders

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Three charts to illustrate the extent of Ireland's debt problem... that's right, the one that has not gone away with all the recov...

20/12/2014: Russia's Black Monday: The Debate is On

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It is a hazardous task to attempt to explain fast spikes in Forex markets pressures during the ongoing currency crises. And hence few atte...

20/12/2014: Russian Crisis: Longer-Term Issues and Short-Term Risks

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Earlier this week I was asked by Portuguese Expresso (http://expresso.sapo.pt/rublo-valoriza-12-e-bolsa-de-moscovo-ganha-14=f903111) to co...

20/12/2014: ECB, Inflation Expectations and Oil

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There is much hype about the ECB not actively gunning for re-inflating the economy around. Which is understandable... as the fears of defl...
Friday, December 19, 2014

19/12/2014: Lots of Talk, More Plans, Little Action: ECB Balancesheet Expansion

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Couple of interesting charts, courtesy of @Schuldensuehner on the ECB balancesheet expansion: First the target to be reached over 2015-20...

19/12/2014: Some links on Russian Crisis

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Several interesting news this week on Russian corporate front. One of the longer-running deal, the swap of assets between German BASF an...
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19/12/2014: Russian Banks: Contagion exposures for Europe

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From a different Deutsche Bank note, a handy chart plotting exposures of various Western banking systems to Russia. Do keep in mind, ...

19/12/2014: The Plight of Russian Banks Overhype?

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Deutsche Bank note from earlier this month covering Russian banks is telling as to the nature of the problems. Per DB: "A tighter f...