Sunday, February 5, 2017

5/2/17: European Patents and Ireland's 'Knowledge Economy' Myths

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Irish policymakers are keen on promoting Ireland as a technology and R&D centre of excellence, often claiming the country is a ‘Knowle...
Friday, February 3, 2017

3/2/17: Global Composite PMI signals improving growth in January

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Over the last four months, I have been suggesting that markets participants pay close attention to Global PMIs, and in particular to the e...

2/2/17: BRIC Manufacturing PMIs: Russia Leads, Brazil Drags

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Quick run through the Manufacturing PMIs for January for BRIC economies: Brazil's Manufacturing PMI slumped to 44.0 in January 2017...
Thursday, February 2, 2017

2/2/17: FactSet on Five 'Notable' 2016 Corporate Data Breaches

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In our recent working paper on the systemic effects of cyber risks expressed via financial markets, we have shown the first empirical evid...

2/2/17: Global Manufacturing PMI Continues to Signal Potential Growth Recovery in January

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Market published Global Manufacturing PMI (Purchasing Managers Index) for January, showing that growth conditions in global manufacturing ...

2/2/17: What Euro Health Index 2016 Tells Us about Ireland's Health System?

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Some pretty harsh ratings of the Irish Health system have been released by the Euro Health Consumer Index back at the end of January. Ov...
Saturday, January 28, 2017

28/1/17: Trust in Core Social Institutions Has Collapsed

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The latest Edelman Trust Barometer for 2017 shows comprehensive collapse in trust around the world in 4 key institutions of any society: t...
Friday, January 27, 2017

27/1/17: Eurocoin Signals Accelerating Growth in January

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Eurocoin, leading growth indicator for euro area growth published by Banca d'Italia and CEPR has risen to 0.69 in January 2017 from 0....

27/1/17: Sovereign Debt Junkies Can't Get Negative Enough in 4Q 16

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There’s less euphoria in sovereign borrowers camps of recent, but plenty of happiness still. Per latest data from FitchRatings, “global ...

27/1/17: U.S. GDP Growth is Down, Not Quite Out...

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So President Trump wants U.S. economy growing at 4 percent per annum. And he wants a trade tussle with Mexico and China, and possibly much...

27/1/17: Eurogroup has ignored Brexit risks to Ireland

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My article for the  Sunday Business Post  on the latest Eurogroup meeting:   https://www.businesspost.ie/opinion/constantin-gurdgiev-eurog...

27/1/17: Some News Links

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Some recent news links that reference the site or carry my comments: Global Capital article by Jeremy Weltman looking at key country ris...